Drill Bird

Teeny lil game for a single evening, very fun and cute! :)

A pleasant little mining game that can be beaten in a couple of hours! I did get stuck at one point because I hadn't yet figured out a mechanic necessary to complete the game, though that was mostly just due to me missing the area that explains that mechanic to you. It's cool that you don't have an 'attack,' and have to use falling blocks or spikes to defeat enemies. It turns combat into a sort of puzzle, which I think is pretty cool! Been replaying it to try and get all the achievements, some are pretty challenging!

Amazing artstyle, very concise and easy to get into, with a really neat game design that harkens back to oldschool flash games on places like nitrome ♥ a wonderful little game that's entirely worth the price

cute little game! i really like how everything was structured in a way that almost completely avoided any immersion-breaking tutorials. not every game can do that and the ones that can often don't decide to. the sound design and art direction are both very cozy and well executed. the puzzles themselves make me feel clever to solve but never became frustrating or tedious. there is a lot of backtracking, but this is one of the few games that made me enjoy that because it felt rewarding to create tunnels i could escape through even when the situation got dire. i don't know why this is controller only. i feel like the inputs could very easily be mapped to keyboard and players wouldn't lose out on the experience whatsoever. but that's just me. if you are someone who has a controller handy and takes interest in any of what i said in the first part, i'd absolutely recommend sitting down with this for the short while it takes to complete!

loved it. short little game reminiscent of old flash games. took me just two hrs to finish it with most achievements. there's some replayability for speedruns/completionist, maybe I'll come back to it. charming world, nicely put together, very coherent experience. chill music in the background. [spoiler] I never got killed by the Ghost Bird ahahaa such accomplishment! [/spoiler]

Game Of the Year