6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed The Big Con. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed The Big Con.
Release Date: 30/07/2019, updated in 2022
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon, Day and Night, Hand-Made and Open World
Sneaky Sasquatch is an adventure game where you sneak around in campsites and try to find food from coolers and picnic baskets without getting caught. From this simple premise grows a game with endless ways to play and explore its open world: race, play...
Release Date: 28/01/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Disjunction is an intense cyberpunk stealth-action game set in 2048. You take on missions as one of three characters that lean towards different skills. Use lethal force, hide in the shadows or distract for non-violent ways to reach your objective.
Release Date: 05/08/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Open World and Pixels
Death Trash is a role-play game set in a post-apocalyptic, horror open world. Humans travelled to the stars, but unearthed machines and killer worms so had to flee into enclosed habitats. You play an outcast in the wasteland with a dangerous burden to...
Release Date: 10/09/2021, updated in 2023
Platforms: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night and Pixels
Kraken Academy is a narrative adventure where it's your first day at high school. No ordinary high school though, it's a melting pot of wacky personalities and fantasy goings-on: ghosts fill the art department, cultists meet below the monkey bars and...
Release Date: 26/08/2022, updated in 2023
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Brok The Investigator is a point-and-click narrative adventure set in a cyberpunk future where animals have replaced humans. Play is an unusual combination of finding and combining items along with action fights and exploration. It stands out for the...
Release Date: 16/08/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Road 96 is a narrative adventure where you play a teenager trying to escape an oppressive, authoritarian country by reaching the border. Through a series of vignettes, you experience the most important and poignant parts on an epic road trip through a...
19 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed The Big Con. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed The Big Con.
Release Date: 02/06/2021
Platforms: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Text
Overboard is a murder mystery narrative game played in reverse. You murder your husband at the start of the game and then try and get away with it. It's played on a ship where the characters are affected by your choices and change their actions...
Release Date: 07/10/2019, updated in 2022
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Pilgrims is an adventure game where you collect cards to help the characters you meet. As you progress you assist them to complete their little stories by offering the right cards to the right people. It's a little like Scribblenauts, but with less...
Release Date: 05/10/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Jett: The Far Shore is a sci-fi adventure where you play inquisitive pilot Mei, exploring a mysterious planet on a nimble jet-powered craft. It draws on films like 2001: Space Odyssey and takes its time building atmosphere. Once it gets going it becomes...
Release Date: 23/07/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Röki is a Scandinavian folklore point-and-click style adventure game where you play Tove on a journey to save her family. As you help her to come to terms with loss, you explore deep into a snowy fairytale landscape with strange locations and creatures.
Release Date: 03/10/2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Untitled Goose game is a silly and funny game but with a dastardly vibe. You play a mean goose who is intent on ruining the day of the inhabitants of a sleepy English village. By stealing items, squawking and otherwise making a nuisance of yourself you...
Release Date: 27/09/2018, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Wandersong is an adventure where you play a bard on a quest to gather parts of a song. Uniquely, you interact with the environment and inhabitants by singing with one of the direction sticks. It stands out not only for its start of love and loss, but...
Release Date: 01/01/2000, updated in 2021
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Hitman 3 is a stealth game where you take on assassination missions and then figure out how to execute them. The dynamic situations you enter unfold as you play and you can try different approaches.
Release Date: 15/05/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Forgotton Anne (Forgotten Anne) is a hand-animated adventure that combines cartoon (Ghibli-inspired) storytelling with running and jumping puzzles. You play as Anne, the enforcer who keeps order in the Forgotten Lands, as she sets out to squash a...
Release Date: 03/12/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
El Hijo - A Wild West Tale is a stealth puzzle game, where you play a 6-year-old boy on his quest to find his mother. It's a non-violent adventure game where you must sneak past the dangers of the Wild West to build self-confidence, cunning, and new...
Release Date: 14/05/2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Hand-Made
Signs of the Sojourner is an introspective narrative where you interact with characters by solving puzzles with cards that represent emotions. It's a coming-of-age story set in the near future and explores how relationships form, break and mend in the...
Release Date: 24/09/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Going Under is a satirical adventure game where you play an intern in a failing start-up company. The game proceeds like other dungeon adventures with enemies to defeat and quests to find items, only here it's all in aid of keeping your boss happy while...
Release Date: 30/09/2022
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Monorail Stories is a narrative adventure where two people's lives are entwined by the journeys they take on the same monorail. You make choices for each character that can impact not only people on your commute but those on the other journey. It's...
Release Date: 19/09/1997, updated in 2022
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, PS5, PSP, Switch, Wii U, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Oddworld: Soul Storm is a running and jumping game where you guide members of your species through labyrinthine levels to free them from brutal oppression. It's a remake of 1998's Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus and a sequel to Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty. Its...
Release Date: 16/06/2020, updated in 2021
Platforms: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Day and Night
The Magister is a roleplaying adventure where you play a detective sent to investigate the murder of a fellow Magister. You explore the point-and-click adventure to find clues, follow leads and befriend villagers. But then there's a card game to uncover...
Release Date: 11/11/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Treasures of the Aegean is a Tin Tin-style tomb raiding adventure game. You are Marie Taylor and unveil the secrets of a forgotten kingdom trapped in an endless time loop. To do this, in 15 minute runs you explore a hand-drawn world to recover valuable...
Release Date: 03/06/2013
Platforms: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Gunpoint is a stealth puzzle game where you play freelance spy Richard Conway, tasked with infiltrating buildings. To succeed you must avoid guards and bypass security, using various high-tech gadgets. Through these missions you seek to clear your name...
Release Date: 01/06/2017
Platforms: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Overhead
Hacktag is a fast two-player game: one player is the stealth ‘Agent’ while the other is the virtually-infiltrating ‘Hacker’. You work with the other player to carry out espionage in different settings and complete each challenge.
Release Date: 10/03/2017, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Streets of Rogue is a fast-paced action role playing game where your overarching goal is to take down the mayor, and how you do it is completely up to you: clever hacker, charming bartender soldier, thief or assassin. It's all about experimentation and...
Release Date: 01/11/2021
Platforms: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
The Legend of Tianding is a running, jumping and fighting game where you play a fugitive vigilante in Taipei city. It stands out for its unusual cultural setting, comic book storytelling and fast combat action. Based on real events, real people and real...
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