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Mega Cat Studios · 2025 · Windows

Steam: 84 % positive of 171 reviews, as of Oct 28

Return to the blacktop with your favorite Backyard athletes! The original Backyard Basketball 2001 is back and now enhanced to run on Steam. Dribble, shoot, and take that ball to the hoop!

24 games that play like Backyard Basketball '01 and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Backyard Baseball '97, Backyard Soccer '98 and Backyard Baseball '01.

Player tags

  • Sports
  • Casual
  • Basketball
  • Arcade
  • Cute
  • Simulation
  • Cartoony
  • Colorful
Map region: Sports & Football
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Best matches

Plays and looks like Backyard Basketball '01

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Backyard Basketball '01

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

More matches

  1. Achievements printer89 % positive of 1,637Shared: Sports · Casual
  2. 3on3 FreeStyle: Rebound61 % positive of 4,473Shared: Sports · Basketball · Arcade
  3. NBA 2K2140 % positive of 38,784Shared: Sports · Basketball · Simulation
  4. Regular Human Basketball93 % positive of 221Shared: Sports · Basketball · Comedy
  5. VIDEOBALL90 % positive of 162Shared: Sports · Arcade
  6. NBA 2K2559 % positive of 31,002Shared: Sports · Basketball · Simulation
  7. Legend Bowl87 % positive of 919Shared: Sports · Arcade · Simulation
  8. NBA 2K2361 % positive of 51,360Shared: Sports · Basketball · Simulation
  9. NBA 2K2048 % positive of 60,405Shared: Sports · Basketball · Simulation
  10. Pixel Cup Soccer - Ultimate Edition83 % positive of 885Shared: Sports · Arcade · Simulation
  11. NBA THE RUN66 % positive of 935
  12. NBA 2K1938 % positive of 22,565Shared: Sports · Basketball · Simulation

By look

Looks like Backyard Basketball '01

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

More matches

  1. Wobbly Life97 % positive of 33,678
  2. Tape to Tape91 % positive of 4,061
  3. Thunder Spikes Volleyball94 % positive of 217
  4. Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate97 % positive of 585
  5. Pizza Tower97 % positive of 66,731
  6. Jet Set Radio86 % positive of 8,335
  7. UNI86 % positive of 15
  8. Duck Game96 % positive of 25,286
  9. Kopanito All-Stars Soccer84 % positive of 2,434
  10. Punch Club81 % positive of 12,160
  11. Chaos Faction Legacy Collection92 % positive of 241
  12. Burger Shop 399 % positive of 624

At a glance

What games like Backyard Basketball '01 have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Backyard Basketball '01: Sports (22 of 24), Simulation (14) and Basketball (14).
  • They came out between 2015 and 2026, 2 of them after Backyard Basketball '01 (2025).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Backyard Baseball '97 (96 % positive of 2,252).

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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