Games Like The Big Con (2026)

Shared: Hand-Drawn Art

Few two-person studios have conjured a world this dense and this lonely. Hollow Knight is 40-plus hours of hand-drawn melancholy that will humble you, haunt you, and refuse to let go.

Shared: Single Playthrough

You are Miles Upshur, a journalist with a camcorder and zero combat skills, trapped inside a psychiatric asylum that is very much still occupied.

Shared: Dialogue Choices

The dating-sim wrapper is bait, and MiSide knows it. What starts as idle chores with an anime girl becomes a genre-hopping psychological horror that two developers built better than most studios manage with a full team.

Shared: Single Playthrough

Rats, plague, the Inquisition, and two kids with nothing but a sling and each other. If grim medieval atmosphere and a story that actually lands are your thing, this one punches well above its budget.

Shared: Dialogue Choices

A sprawling 50-plus-hour action-RPG set during the Peloponnesian War that rewards patient explorers and build-chasers but will exhaust anyone allergic to Ubisoft padding.