Games like The Baconing
If The Baconing is your kind of game, the closest matches are DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue, DeathSpank and Ys Origin — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, comedic and funny. 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.
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Players who liked The Baconing also play
Steam players who put hours into The Baconing 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.
DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue
WHY THIS
Shares local co op and a comedic mood with The Baconing.
Top pick for The Baconing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Baconing.
Join DeathSpank in the hunt for the Thongs of Virtue! Fight through all new environments and quests and collect all new weapons, armor, and loot in one of the funniest action-RPGs to date!
DeathSpank
WHY THIS
Shares local co op and a comedic mood with The Baconing.
Second-strongest match for The Baconing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Baconing.
For uncounted years, DeathSpank has been a Dispenser of Justice, a Vanquisher of Evil, and a Hero to the Downtrodden.
Ys Origin
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Baconing.
Third-strongest match for The Baconing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Baconing.
The perfect mix of action, exploration and story with screen-filling bosses, unique platforming elements, and innovative puzzles.
Ys: The Oath in Felghana
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Baconing.
Ranked #4 for The Baconing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Baconing.
An Action RPG driven by fast-paced combat and paired with an intricate puzzle-filled world.
The Bard's Tale ARPG: Remastered and Resnarkled
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with The Baconing.
Ranked #5 for The Baconing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Baconing.
You are the Bard, a selfish rogue weary of pointless sub-quests and rat-infested cellars. Now includes original classic games The Bard’s Tale 1, 2 & 3!
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Baconing.
Ranked #6 for The Baconing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Baconing.
A new dark fantasy Three Kingdoms action RPG from Team NINJA, the developers of Nioh.
Fight The Dragon
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Baconing.
Ranked #7 for The Baconing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Baconing.
A COMMUNITY CREATED Hack'n Slash RPG where players can team up and tackle exciting adventures made by other community members in our in-game Adventure Construction Kit - It's DIABLO meets LITTLE BIG PLANET!
Nioh: Complete Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Baconing.
Ranked #8 for The Baconing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Baconing.
Ready to die? Experience the newest brutal action game from Team NINJA and Koei Tecmo Games. In the age of samurai, a lone traveler lands on the shores of Japan. He must fight his way through the vicious warriors and supernatural Yokai that infest the land in order to find that which he seeks.
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Baconing
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Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Baconing.
Reviewers of The Baconing cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with The Baconing.
The Startling Developments Detective Agency springs into action as On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 begins, set in motion by a call from a mysterious source. The ever escalating perils on the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness will season our tender heroes to their very core!
Return to Monkey Island
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with The Baconing.
Reviewers of The Baconing cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Baconing.
Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.
DeathSpank
WHY THIS
Shares local co op and a comedic mood with The Baconing.
Reviewers of The Baconing cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with The Baconing.
For uncounted years, DeathSpank has been a Dispenser of Justice, a Vanquisher of Evil, and a Hero to the Downtrodden.
DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue
WHY THIS
Shares local co op and a comedic mood with The Baconing.
Reviewers of The Baconing cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with The Baconing.
Join DeathSpank in the hunt for the Thongs of Virtue! Fight through all new environments and quests and collect all new weapons, armor, and loot in one of the funniest action-RPGs to date!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Baconing at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Baconing on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with The Baconing.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under The Baconing on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Baconing.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Baconing on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Baconing.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Baconing on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Baconing.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Baconing on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Baconing.
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...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Baconing on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Baconing.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under The Baconing on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Baconing.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Baconing on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Baconing.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Baconing.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Baconing.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and RPG with The Baconing.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Baconing.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Baconing.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Baconing.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Trick & Treat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Baconing.
Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.
Warframe
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and RPG with The Baconing.
Awaken as an unstoppable warrior and battle alongside your friends in this story-driven free-to-play online action game
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More from Hothead Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Hothead Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
DeathSpank
WHY THIS
Shares local co op and a comedic mood with The Baconing.
Another title from Hothead Games, the studio behind The Baconing. Shares Action and RPG with The Baconing.
For uncounted years, DeathSpank has been a Dispenser of Justice, a Vanquisher of Evil, and a Hero to the Downtrodden.
Precipice of Darkness, Episode One
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with The Baconing.
Another title from Hothead Games, the studio behind The Baconing. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Baconing.
On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One is the first installment in the RPG-Adventure game series based on the web comic Penny Arcade. Create your character in the classic comic style, and join Gabe and Tycho in the alternate 1920s universe of New Arcadia, where you'll combat savage enemies, solve mysteries, meet bizarre new...
DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue
WHY THIS
Shares local co op and a comedic mood with The Baconing.
Another title from Hothead Games, the studio behind The Baconing. Shares Action and RPG with The Baconing.
Join DeathSpank in the hunt for the Thongs of Virtue! Fight through all new environments and quests and collect all new weapons, armor, and loot in one of the funniest action-RPGs to date!
Precipice of Darkness, Episode Two
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Baconing.
Another title from Hothead Games, the studio behind The Baconing. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Baconing.
On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode Two is the second installment in the RPG-adventure game series based on the web comic Penny Arcade. Whether you're a fan of the first installment or new to the series, you'll be able to pick up and play Episode Two as a standalone experience.
Frequently asked about The Baconing
- Does The Baconing run on Steam Deck?
- The Baconing is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Baconing cost?
- The Baconing is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does The Baconing have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Baconing supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to The Baconing?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Baconing are DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue, DeathSpank, Ys Origin.
- Who developed The Baconing?
- The Baconing was developed by Hothead Games.
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