Comparison

Drilloot vs Deep Bell

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Drilloot

Embark on a solo mining expedition on an alien planet, digging through diverse strata to collect resources and complete missions. Upgrade your equipment, discover ancient relics, and unlock permanent skills as you uncover the planet's secrets. Enjoy offline progression and a relaxing, one-handed gameplay experience.

Highlights
  • One-handed idle mining
  • Six distinct strata to explore
  • 40 survey quests
  • Gear upgrades
  • Relic system with refining and selling
  • Prestige and GP skills
  • Offline progression
Features
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Welcome to Planet 7. Drill deep. Discover more. You're a survey engineer assigned to an uncharted planet. Your job: dig through the strata, collect samples, and complete missions for your crew — all while uncovering the mystery buried beneath. ◆ ONE-HANDED IDLE MINING Fully portrait, tap-to-play. Perfect for short commutes or long relaxing sessions. ◆ SIX DISTINCT STRATA Topsoil, red clay, limestone, crystal, hot-ore, and magma core. Each layer brings new geology and rarer resources. The deeper you go, the more valuable the find. ◆ 40 SURVEY QUESTS Two crew members — a mechanic and a researcher — send you on survey missions. Complete them to unlock deeper regions and reveal the planet's secrets. ◆ UPGRADE YOUR GEAR Drill speed, expedition bag capacity, and the auto-system. Dig faster, carry more, and automate the grind. ◆ RELIC SYSTEM (NEW) Ancient relics surface as you mine. Equip them to boost your stats, spend coins to "refine" their tiers, and sell the ones you don't need. Hunt, hold, equip, refine, sell — curate your own build. ◆ PRESTIGE + GP SKILLS Clear all 40 quests to unlock prestige. Earn GP and unlock powerful permanent GP skills — including relic find rate and refine cost reduction. ◆ INCREASING CHALLENGE Quest requirements grow slightly each prestige. Up to 15 laps total. ◆ OFFLINE PROGRESSION Your drill keeps running while you're away. Come back to a survey log of what you've collected. ◆ AUDIO Background music + sound effects, with volume and on/off settings that apply instantly. ◆ FEATURES - 100% offline play - No account required - Local save - stays on your device - English & Japanese supported Ads are shown by default. The optional "Remove Ads" in-app purchase disables them permanently. Dig in. The planet is waiting.

About

Deep Bell

Features
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A town sank on a night of storm forty years ago. Its bell is still ringing. Drill down through the seabed and bring up what the town left behind. You are a diver with no name. From the salvage barge Kamome-maru you ride a diving bell down to Shizugane, the harbour town the sea took. • A seabed that shifts: sand pours into your tunnels, rubble tumbles and lava hardens where it meets the water. Every dig changes the ground beneath you. • Light and air: lamp oil, an air hose and a reserve tank. Fill your satchel, empty it at the bell, and go again. • Lower the bell down the tunnel you dug, and start your next dive from there. • Six depths, six worlds: the Shallows, Shizugane, the Cathedral, the Ship Graveyard, the Vents and the Trench, where the Great Bell lies. • 43 relics and 15 keepsakes, each holding a piece of the town's last night. • Restore the clock tower, the organ and the foundry, and rebuild the harbour. • A crew of three: a gruff captain, an engineer with no time for superstition, and a boy kept awake by a bell beneath the sea. And a question no one asks out loud: who is the diver? • Eels that steal your ore, squid that ink, crabs, anglerfish. They are few, and all give fair warning. Or switch on relaxed mode: no injuries, no thieving eels, just you, the dark water and the dig. • Play one-handed, in portrait. • A pixel-art sea, and music that shifts as you go deeper. Buy once. No ads, no in-app purchases. Plays offline.

Screenshots

Drilloot4 screens
Deep Bell4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Drilloot at Free against Deep Bell's $0.99. Deep Bell's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). On device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Drilloot is free to download; Deep Bell costs $0.99 up front. Drilloot sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Deep Bell asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
Drilloot versus Deep Bell: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrillootDeep Bell
PriceFree — better$0.99
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size101 MB106 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperSHOTA OHTSUKA東京AI映像合同会社

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Drilloot

One-time3
  • Relic Pass$2.99
  • Remove Ads$2.99
  • Speed Pass$3.99
None

Deep Bell

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drilloot free?
Drilloot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Deep Bell free?
Deep Bell costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Drilloot or Deep Bell have ads?
Drilloot shows ads; Deep Bell does not.

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