Games like NBA 2K16 — Co-op
Closest overall match: NBA 2K17 (★ 3.3). Highest rated: eFootball PES 2021 at ★ 3.7. Quickest to finish: NBA Playgrounds at about 1 hours.
These 7 games score highest on our similarity model for NBA 2K16 — weighted by shared tags, genre overlap, rating proximity and release era. The strongest common threads are Split Screen, Basketball and Full controller support.
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69%
1. NBA 2K17
Shares Basketball, Realistic, Controller, Split Screen and Great Soundtrack and 4 more tags; same developer; rated 0.4 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 90
- Playtime
- 14h
- Finish rate
- 40%
- Shared genres
- 15
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63%
2. NBA 2K18
Shares Basketball, Split Screen, Full controller support, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; same developer; about 35h longer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Playtime
- 46h
- Finish rate
- 35%
- Shared genres
- 15
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61%
3. NBA 2K19
Shares Basketball, Split Screen, cooperative, Full controller support and Steam Cloud and 2 more tags; same developer; rated 0.3 higher; about 13h longer.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 81
- Playtime
- 24h
- Finish rate
- 36%
- Shared genres
- 15
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60%
4. eFootball PES 2021
Shares Realistic, Split Screen, Online Co-Op, cooperative and Singleplayer; rated 0.8 higher.
- Year
- 2020
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 73
- Playtime
- 7h
- Finish rate
- 36%
- Shared genres
- 15
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58%
5. NBA 2K20
Shares Basketball, Split Screen, Full controller support, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; same developer.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Metacritic
- 76
- Playtime
- 12h
- Finish rate
- 31%
- Shared genres
- 15
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58%
6. NBA Playgrounds
Shares Basketball, cooperative, Full controller support, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; about 10h shorter; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Metacritic
- 67
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 33%
- Shared genres
- 15
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58%
7. WWE 2K16
Shares Split Screen, cooperative, Great Soundtrack, Full controller support and Singleplayer; same developer; about 7h shorter; same release year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 37%
- Shared genres
- 15
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like NBA 2K16?
On our similarity model, NBA 2K17 is the closest match to NBA 2K16 — shares Basketball, Realistic, Controller, Split Screen and Great Soundtrack and 4 more tags; same developer; rated 0.4 higher; released within 1 year.
Which game like NBA 2K16 is rated highest?
eFootball PES 2021 holds the highest player rating in this list at 3.7/5 from 96 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against NBA 2K16 on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.