Games like NBA 2K21 on Nintendo Switch
Closest overall match: PGA TOUR 2K21 (★ 3.5). Highest rated: FIFA 22 at ★ 3.4. Quickest to finish: PGA TOUR 2K21 at about 3 hours.
Looking for something like NBA 2K21? Our model ranked 6 games by how much they share with it. What ties them together most: Online PvP, Basketball and Split Screen.
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70%
1. PGA TOUR 2K21
Shares Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Remote Play Together, Online PvP and In-App Purchases and 7 more tags; rated 0.3 higher; about 16h shorter; same release year.
- Year
- 2020
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 20%
- Shared genres
- 14, 15
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65%
2. NBA 2K20
Shares Basketball, Gambling, In-App Purchases, Split Screen and Full controller support and 3 more tags; same developer; about 7h shorter; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Metacritic
- 76
- Playtime
- 12h
- Finish rate
- 31%
- Shared genres
- 14, 15
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64%
3. NBA 2K19
Shares Basketball, Gambling, Split Screen, cooperative and Full controller support and 3 more tags; same developer; about 5h longer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 81
- Playtime
- 24h
- Finish rate
- 36%
- Shared genres
- 14, 15
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59%
4. NBA 2K18
Shares Basketball, Split Screen, Full controller support, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; same developer; about 27h longer.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Playtime
- 46h
- Finish rate
- 35%
- Shared genres
- 14, 15
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59%
5. FIFA 22
Shares Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Online PvP, Team-Based and Realistic and 8 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2021
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 76
- Playtime
- 21h
- Finish rate
- 43%
- Shared genres
- 15
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56%
6. FIFA 19
Shares Online PvP and Singleplayer; about 19h shorter; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 80
- Finish rate
- 45%
- Shared genres
- 14, 15
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like NBA 2K21 on Nintendo Switch?
On our similarity model, PGA TOUR 2K21 is the closest match to NBA 2K21 on Nintendo Switch — shares Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Remote Play Together, Online PvP and In-App Purchases and 7 more tags; rated 0.3 higher; about 16h shorter; same release year.
Which game like NBA 2K21 is rated highest?
FIFA 22 holds the highest player rating in this list at 3.4/5 from 239 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against NBA 2K21 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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