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Summer’s approaching, so it’s time to figure out what kind of wacky character development you’re going to have during the scorching months. If you hadn’t come up with a plan yet, you can always go with one of the classics: going on a cross-country road trip with a con man to somehow save your mom’s video store from mobsters. That’s what local sarcastic 90s teen Ali is doing inThe Big Conthis summer, anyhow. I hope she makes some lasting memories, because I’ve got bad news for her about the eventual longevity of her mom’s VHS store.
As you do in last-century coming-of-age stories, Ali has to make some mischief, hang with the wrong crowd, and maybe break some laws to scrape together the cash to save her mom’s shop from loan sharks.
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Aside from the strong 90s visual vibes, The Big Con looks to be in the vein of an adventure game from the same era, with plenty of dialogue and gags and quests and a minigame for pickpocketing people. You know, adventuring stuff. I do quite like Ali’s “gotta do” notebook list full of doodles and Polaroids. I’m always a fan of a quest log represented as a notebook.
The Big Con is launching sometime this summer—because that’s when teen adventures happen—overon Steam.
