Drillers: A New Deck Building Game

The game everyone was chasing at Gen Con 2026 has landed at Tabletop Library, and we're teaching it.

Drillers is Czech Games Edition's new deck-builder, and it sold out before the convention was over. You pilot a gloriously ridiculous mech into an abandoned mine. Maybe it's a school bus with a giant drill bolted to the front. Maybe it's a steamboat on spider legs. Your job is to strip out every gem a vanished mining corporation left behind.

Every card does double duty: burn it for fuel or spend fuel to use it. Drill through walls, open new floors, and sell your haul topside to upgrade your rig and build a better deck. But every level you go down is a level you have to climb back up, and fuel runs out fast.

Then the mine collapses. When one player triggers the end, everyone else gets one last turn to scramble to the surface. Anyone still deep underground pays for it.

It's a midweight game with fast turns, easy to learn and hard to put down. It plays up to four and needs no experience.