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Mega Cat Studios · 2025 · Windows

Steam: 94 % positive of 175 reviews, as of Oct 28

Backyard Football 1999 is back and now enhanced to run on modern systems. Whether you're picking Jerry Rice or Barry Sanders for your dream team, scoring TDs with Pablo Sanchez, or enjoying the witty banter between Sunny Day and Chuck Downfield, simple controls let anyone pick up and play football!

24 games that play like Backyard Football '99 and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Backyard Soccer '98, Backyard Baseball '97 and Sunday Rivals.

Player tags

  • Sports
  • Casual
  • Football (American)
  • Arcade
  • 2D
  • Cute
  • Simulation
  • Colorful
Map region: Sports & Football
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Plays and looks like Backyard Football '99

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

By gameplay

Plays like Backyard Football '99

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

More matches

  1. College Bowl83 % positive of 266Shared: Sports · Football (American) · Arcade
  2. Pixel Cup Soccer - Ultimate Edition83 % positive of 885Shared: Sports · Arcade · Simulation
  3. FIFA 2280 % positive of 119,842Shared: Sports · Simulation · Singleplayer
  4. Madden NFL 2150 % positive of 5,145Shared: Sports · Football (American) · Simulation
  5. Football Simulator78 % positive of 912Shared: Sports · Football (American) · Arcade
  6. Maximum Football58 % positive of 1,433Shared: Sports · Football (American) · Simulation
  7. Hoop Land95 % positive of 744Shared: Sports · Arcade · Simulation
  8. EA SPORTS™ Madden NFL 2555 % positive of 4,493Shared: Sports · Football (American) · Simulation
  9. FootLOL: Epic Soccer League82 % positive of 680Shared: Sports · Simulation · Casual
  10. Foosball - Street Edition58 % positive of 103Shared: Sports · Casual
  11. Football Manager 202292 % positive of 13,802Shared: Sports · Football (American) · Simulation
  12. Madden NFL 2253 % positive of 7,179Shared: Sports · Football (American) · Simulation

By look

Looks like Backyard Football '99

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

More matches

  1. Duck Game96 % positive of 25,286
  2. NUTMEG! A Nostalgic Deckbuilding Football Manager90 % positive of 394
  3. Super Arcade Football68 % positive of 164
  4. Bang Average Football – Play, Manage, Create95 % positive of 425
  5. Sunday Rivals91 % positive of 300
  6. Pocket League Story88 % positive of 162
  7. Sam & Max Hit the Road95 % positive of 965
  8. Chroma Squad95 % positive of 2,930
  9. Backyard Baseball80 % positive of 1,315
  10. New Star™ Soccer 570 % positive of 692
  11. Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside96 % positive of 1,084
  12. Kindergarten 297 % positive of 5,631

At a glance

What games like Backyard Football '99 have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Backyard Football '99: Sports (23 of 24), Arcade (15) and Simulation (13).
  • They came out between 2014 and 2026, 2 of them after Backyard Football '99 (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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