Games like NBA 2K17 on Xbox
Closest overall match: NBA 2K16 (★ 3.0). Highest rated: TEKKEN 7 at ★ 4.0. Quickest to finish: Dangerous Golf at about 1 hours.
Looking for something like NBA 2K17? Our model ranked 12 games by how much they share with it. The strongest common threads are Full controller support, Split Screen and Basketball.
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69%
1. NBA 2K16
Shares Basketball, Realistic, Controller, Split Screen and Great Soundtrack and 4 more tags; same developer; rated 0.4 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Metacritic
- 86
- Playtime
- 11h
- Finish rate
- 31%
- Shared genres
- 15
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67%
2. NBA 2K18
Shares Basketball, Split Screen, Full controller support, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; same developer; about 32h longer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Playtime
- 46h
- Finish rate
- 35%
- Shared genres
- 4, 15
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65%
3. NBA 2K19
Shares Basketball, Split Screen, Full controller support, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; same developer; about 10h longer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 81
- Playtime
- 24h
- Finish rate
- 36%
- Shared genres
- 4, 15
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64%
4. 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
- 4, 15
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64%
5. WWE 2K16
Shares Memes, Character Customization, Split Screen, Great Soundtrack and Full controller support and 1 more tags; same developer; rated 0.4 lower; about 10h shorter; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 37%
- Shared genres
- 4, 15
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58%
6. Dangerous Golf
Shares Controller, Full controller support, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 lower; about 13h shorter; same release year.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 2.9
- Metacritic
- 54
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 17%
- Shared genres
- 4, 15
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56%
7. TEKKEN 7
Shares Character Customization, Controller, Split Screen, Great Soundtrack and Full controller support and 3 more tags; rated 0.7 higher; about 7h shorter; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 82
- Playtime
- 7h
- Finish rate
- 60%
- Shared genres
- 4, 15
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54%
8. NBA 2K15
Shares Basketball; same developer; about 20h longer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 34h
- Finish rate
- 39%
- Shared genres
- 15
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53%
9. NBA 2K14
Shares Basketball; same developer; about 7h shorter.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 7h
- Finish rate
- 37%
- Shared genres
- 15
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53%
10. F1 2016
Shares Realistic, Controller, Full controller support, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; rated 0.5 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 86
- Playtime
- 10h
- Finish rate
- 51%
- Shared genres
- 15
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53%
11. Lethal League
Shares Split Screen, Great Soundtrack, Full controller support, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; about 10h shorter; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 82
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 42%
- Shared genres
- 4, 15
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53%
12. Steep
Shares Realistic, Great Soundtrack and Singleplayer; about 9h shorter; same release year.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 72
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 22%
- Shared genres
- 4, 15
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like NBA 2K17 on Xbox?
On our similarity model, NBA 2K16 is the closest match to NBA 2K17 on Xbox — shares Basketball, Realistic, Controller, Split Screen and Great Soundtrack and 4 more tags; same developer; rated 0.4 lower; released within 1 year.
Which game like NBA 2K17 is rated highest?
TEKKEN 7 holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.0/5 from 780 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against NBA 2K17 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.
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