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Games like The Next BIG Thing

Pendulo Studios · 2011 · 84 % positive of 680

24 games that play like The Next BIG Thing and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Runaway: A Twist of Fate, Runaway, The Dream of The Turtle and Runaway, A Road Adventure.

Player tags

  • Adventure
  • Point & Click
  • Puzzle
  • 2D
  • Classic
  • Great Soundtrack
  • Retro
  • Cult Classic

At a glance

What games like The Next BIG Thing have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Next BIG Thing: Point & Click (21 of 24), Puzzle (21) and Classic (12).
  • They came out between 2007 and 2026, 20 of them after The Next BIG Thing (2011).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Endacopia (99 % positive of 8,289).
  • Runaway, A Road Adventure, 3 Minutes to Midnight® - A Comedy Graphic Adventure and AR-K both play and look like The Next BIG Thing.

By gameplay

Plays like The Next BIG Thing

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Crushed In Time90 % positive of 1,387
  2. Chaos on Deponia90 % positive of 2,794Shared: Point & Click · Puzzle · Classic
  3. The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles83 % positive of 448Shared: Point & Click · Puzzle · Adventure
  4. Earthworms77 % positive of 186Shared: Point & Click · Adventure · 2D
  5. Endacopia99 % positive of 8,289
  6. Adventure Escape Mysteries86 % positive of 935Shared: Point & Click · Puzzle · Escape Room
  7. Escape from Monkey Island™56 % positive of 655Shared: Point & Click · Puzzle · Classic
  8. AR-K54 % positive of 485Shared: Point & Click · Puzzle · Classic
  9. Unusual Findings90 % positive of 463Shared: Point & Click · Puzzle · Adventure
  10. The Darkside Detective94 % positive of 4,724Shared: Point & Click · Puzzle · Retro
  11. The Wardrobe - Even Better Edition80 % positive of 537Shared: Point & Click · Puzzle · Retro
  12. There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension97 % positive of 23,430Shared: Point & Click · Puzzle · Adventure

By look

Looks like The Next BIG Thing

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. 3 Minutes to Midnight® - A Comedy Graphic Adventure87 % positive of 232
  2. 1954 Alcatraz73 % positive of 1,726
  3. Memoranda72 % positive of 159
  4. Black Mirror I83 % positive of 1,350
  5. A New Beginning - Final Cut74 % positive of 1,984
  6. Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged96 % positive of 776
  7. The Journey Down: Chapter Three91 % positive of 471
  8. Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse99 % positive of 303
  9. Voyage: Journey to the Moon77 % positive of 176
  10. Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller82 % positive of 797
  11. Nancy Drew®: The Captive Curse89 % positive of 212
  12. Goodbye Deponia88 % positive of 2,357

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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