You Know The Drill
BANGER · Strategy · 2026
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.72/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 1,166
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.9h
- To 100%
- 4.1h 1.4x the story
- Finish
- 66% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 14
Price and sales
- Sales
- 3 on record
- Typical cut
- 20% off
- Steam low
- $3.74 October 2026
- Sale every
- 70d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 8 now
- Recent reviews
- 86% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 59% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
99% start to 66% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 3 discounts in the 5 months tracked, the median cut is 20 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Loot Loop ($4.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats The Chef's Shift ($12.99, scores 87).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $6.32.
More about You Know The Drill
Steam's global achievement data puts 66 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. 2 of the 373 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to September 2026.
At 2.9 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 16 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
You Know The Drill is a relaxing incremental mining game about digging underground to harvest ores. Collect resources and use them to upgrade your drill and go even deeper!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
You Know The Drill scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3833760/you-know-the-drillReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.