Games like The Big Con
If The Big Con is your kind of game, the closest matches are Death Comes Skiing, Murder by Numbers and Life is Paine — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cozy, funny and lighthearted. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About The Big Con: Hustle your way across ‘90s America as a runaway teen con artist. Choose how to make your scratch as you don disguises, pick pockets, and rip people off in this comedic crime-filled adventure. Experience the totally rad '90s in all its plaid and payphone glory!
Players who liked The Big Con also play
Steam players who put hours into The Big Con also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Death Comes Skiing
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Big Con fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Con.
When a retired cross-country ski team meets to celebrate their past victories, the past soon catches up to them. It's up to you to make sense of the slaughter that follows in this comedic point-and-click murder mystery.
Murder by Numbers
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with The Big Con.
Second-strongest match for The Big Con fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Con.
Solve Pixel Puzzles to find clues. Use those clues to interrogate witnesses. Work your way to the truth... ...and uncover the mystery of Murder by Numbers!
Life is Paine
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Big Con fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Con.
Life is Paine is a humorous Point and Click Adventure where you play a bard which has lost his voice due to an unfortunate accident and tries to regain it.
Friday at Ours
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Big Con fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Con.
Friday at Ours is a time management-adventure game about overcoming your anxiety and visiting a party you weren't invited to.
Puzzle Spy International
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with The Big Con.
Ranked #5 for The Big Con fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Big Con.
Pursue diamond thieves and a trail of cryptic puzzles in this short ‘60s spy adventure. As Agent Epsilon you’ll choose your path as you chat with (or chat up!) suspicious contacts. Deduce the puzzle rules, decode cryptograms and decipher clues as you solve wordplay & logic puzzles across the globe!
Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die!
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with The Big Con.
Ranked #6 for The Big Con fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Con.
Hair metal's not dead, it just smells funny! Get your denim vest, bandana and makeup, and dive into a point-and-click adventure as a middle-aged teddy bear planning a comeback with his old glam metal band – in a world where glam metal has been dead and buried for decades.
The Holy Gosh Darn
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with The Big Con.
Ranked #7 for The Big Con fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Con.
Play as Cassiel, a foul-mouthed angel trapped in a time loop with a mission to save Heaven. Use the magical clock bestowed upon you from Death (yes, that Death, from Manual Samuel, stop asking) to jump between timelines across Heaven, Hell, Earth and Helheim to stop Heaven from going boom. Again.
Teenage Blob
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Big Con fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Con.
Half game. Half album. All awesome! A colourful art-punk adventure towards the best night of your life. Guaranteed to cheer you up in half an hour or your money back!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Big Con at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Big Con on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Big Con.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Big Con on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Big Con.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Big Con on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Con.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Big Con on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Big Con.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Big Con on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Con.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Big Con on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Big Con.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Big Con on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Big Con.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Big Con on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Con.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Big Con.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Big Con.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Big Con.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Big Con.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Con.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Big Con.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Con.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Frequently asked about The Big Con
- Is The Big Con verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Big Con is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Big Con cost?
- The Big Con is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Big Con?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Big Con are Death Comes Skiing, Murder by Numbers, Life is Paine.
- Who developed The Big Con?
- The Big Con was developed by Mighty Yell and published by Skybound Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Big Con.
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