The Big Con

When it gets good

Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.

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Based on all 1,878 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 5.9h for positive, 4.4h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.

Where players quit

Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (84.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.

Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.

All achievements (51)

• The Video Store Employee Showed up to work kinda sorta on time. 100%
• The First Timer Who knew it could be this easy? 90%
• The Bandcamp Bait 'n Switch Got on a bus to save your video store from loan sharks. 82%
• The Taking Candy from a Baby Like taking candy from a baby...'s over protective mom. 76%
• The Burblo Boondoggle Grabbed enough money for a train ticket. 68%
• The Tape Never Lies Called Mari from the road and played it real cool. 68%
• The Changebreaker Learned how to make something out of nothing with a little changebreaking magic. 67%
• Lorgo and the Flungus Learned about how the stock market works. 63%
• The Hormliner Hustle Conned more money than Ted on your way up the train. 62%
• The Legitimate Hustle Rewound tapes for money and earned back everything they took from you. 59%
• That's a Good Flungus Helped a well-meaning stockbroker with a thoroughly-researched tip. 57%
• The Collector's Gambit Met the collector and added to his collection. What does he do with this stuff? 56%
• Third Time's a Flungus Honestly, we just wanted you to hear the word Flungus one more time. 54%
• The Watcher Got a Gold Fanny Pack for Dan as a thanks for spying on the locals. 51%
• The Fraudster Stole some wallets for Myrna. Wonder what she's gonna do with those... 51%
• The Dusty Toss Was politely asked to leave a moving train. 51%
• The Joker Coached a comedian for his big stage show, but respectfully did not attend. 50%
• The Kabaczky Confusion Stole a lot of money from... the Kabaczkys. 47%
• The Desert Dialtone Took a wrong turn in the desert and found a little guidance. 46%
• The Best Friend Shuffle Called Mari from the road and she actually picked up this time. 43%
• The Protectionist Became friends with Murray, while he shook people down in Las Venganza. 41%
• The Suit-Up Surprise Snuck your way into a casino, dressed for success. 41%
• The Heatstroke Hallucination Got lost and found the worst place on earth. 41%
• The Casino Case-Out Saved Linda's Video from Ricky. 40%
• The Big Con Finished your adventure and told your mom everything. 40%
• The Smoker Taught a smoker that smoking isn't cool, but giving money to strangers is. 40%
• Sticky Fingers Mallton Found some additions to your sticker collection in a huge mall. 38%
• The Huxtor's Finest Got caught once too many times in the Huxtor. 37%
• The Periwinkle Takeover Witnessed a town of people wear the next great fashion craze. 37%
• The Flin Flon Flimflam Stole an out-of-state drivers license from some guy from Saskatchewan. 37%
• The Lover Helped reunite two distant lovers, even if one of them was kinda annoying. 36%
• Sticky Fingers Perdido Found some additions to your sticker collection in a weird desert. 34%
• Sticky Fingers Casino Found some additions to your sticker collection in a bustling casino. 32%
• The Truth Told your mom the truth, it's her fault if she doesn't believe you, right? 32%
• Sticky Fingers Midlands Hormliner Found some additions to your sticker collection on a moving train. 31%
• Sticky Fingers Lisbon Found some additions to your sticker collection in your home town. 31%
• The Last Minute Birthday Party Helped the collector realize he's kind of a cool guy. 27%
• The Big Sneak Got way too deep in the underground shoe game. 25%
• A Rad Achievement Get a Rad Skater Score of over 3500. 25%
• The Skater Challenged an adventurer and won... sort of? 22%
• The Old Switcheroo Took Ted's briefcase without participating in his contest. 20%
• The Giant Block of Horm Used a hideous block of processed meat to make someone laugh. 19%
• Sticky Fingers Las Venganza Revisted Found some MORE additions to your sticker collection in a big city. 15%
• The Big Cornucopia Helped the grocer remember the old days. 14%
• Sticky Fingers Las Venganza Found some additions to your sticker collection in a big city. 13%
• A Radder Achievement Get a Rad Skater Score of over 8000. 12%
• The Film Buff Found 6 VHS tapes hidden throughout the game. 11%
• THE RADDEST ACHIEVEMENT EVER Get a Rad Skater Score of over 15000. 9.8%
• The Squeaky Stranger Helped a strange, cheese-obsessed person find a connection in this crazy, mixed-up world. 8.5%
• The Three Kids In A Trench Coat Helped some mysterious strangers complete their collection. 7.9%
• The Stickiest Situation Show a complete sticker collection to a fellow collector. 7.7%