A downloadable game

Let's get digging!

Drillbird is a digging platformer where you play as a bird with a drill as its beak, drilling your way through the world to find ores in order to make your egg hatch.  

  • 1-3 hours long
  • Satisfying game loop of digging for ores, returning home, and growing stronger
  • Non-verbal story 

Drillbirds demo is now on Steam, a full version will be launching later this year. 

You can check out the Steam page and play the demo here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3809940/Drill_Bird/ 

 Quotes 

A cute, cozy and relaxing game that is perfect
to take your mind of work and into tranquility.  - Johanna Österlind
An absolutely adorable experience about selflessly putting
your life on the line providing for your offspring.  
Jacob Lind

A game by:

Updated 9 days ago
StatusIn development
Release date Mar 28, 2025
Rating
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
AuthorSeb & friends
GenrePlatformer
Tags2D, digging, Exploration, Godot, No AI, Pixel Art, Puzzle-Platformer, Side Scroller, Singleplayer
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Xbox controller, Playstation controller
AccessibilitySubtitles, Interactive tutorial

Development log

Comments

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Gorgeous! Fun and and engaging. The atmosphere is so nice, reminds me of Knytt. There's something wrong with the optimization, in the browser it froze for several seconds often, so I downloaded it for Win. It has some uneven framerate but worked way better.

I played it a couple of days ago! Impressively polished and a beautiful gameplay loop with a terrifying analogy of the cost of not getting enough rest. I loved it! 🐦

this is a really wonderful game! I really enjoyed the gameloop and how it kept surprising me. Like the gameplay of Metroid with the charm and vibe of Celeste.

Really charming graphics, music and sound design too! ❤️❤️

🐦🌹🌹🌹🐦

This was really fun! I really enjoyed the small "areas" within the biomes and how you combined "no combat" with mini-puzzles to take care of enemies. I also really enjoyed the alcove areas at the sides, well done!

Lovely game guys! Hope to see more from the team :D