The Big Con
Fair · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$14.99Fair
On its price record
$4.30BANGER
- Length
- 4.5h
- Value
- $3.33/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 7770 or dedicated equivalent, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
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!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. 39 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $4.30 BANGER line 25 times.
On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Darkside Detective ($14.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse ($24.99, scores 60).
The press gave it 77; the people who bought it give it 93 percent. A 16-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 382 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2022 to August 2026.
At 4.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
84% start to 7% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
18 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 07:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
this game was so fun, loved the ability to opt out of mini games for those who dont care for them!
Really cute & fun game I wish the game had an option for more than one save file, so it would be easier to go back to older saves to get achievements without completely restarting Paid: $1.58 Play time: 12 hours ~13 cents per hour of play time (Though I played a bit more than I wanted as I had to replay 3 times for missed achievements)
really liked this. i would eat up more games of this kind. vibrant, charming, and fun. [looks at the developer's other games in utter confusion.]
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
The Big Con scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1139280/the-big-conReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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