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Mega Cat Studios · 2024 · Windows

Steam: 95 % positive of 213 reviews, as of Oct 28

Return to the soccer field with your favorite Backyard athletes! The original Backyard Soccer 1998 is back and now enhanced to run on Steam. Build your roster from among the iconic Backyard Kids. Kick, pass, and score in this classic game that made soccer fun for everyone!

24 games that play like Backyard Soccer '98 and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Backyard Football '99, Backyard Baseball '97 and Backyard Basketball '01.

Player tags

  • Sports
  • Football (Soccer)
  • Casual
  • Arcade
  • Cute
  • Simulation
  • Colorful
  • Pixel Graphics
Map region: Sports & Football
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Plays and looks like Backyard Soccer '98

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

By gameplay

Plays like Backyard Soccer '98

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

More matches

  1. Soccer Online: Ball 3D88 % positive of 4,643Shared: Sports · Football (Soccer) · Arcade
  2. Kopanito All-Stars Soccer84 % positive of 2,434Shared: Sports · Football (Soccer) · Family Friendly
  3. Football Pitch Simulator90 % positive of 208Shared: Sports · Football (Soccer) · Simulation
  4. Strikers Club77 % positive of 6,171Shared: Sports · Football (Soccer) · Arcade
  5. Soccer Player Simulator83 % positive of 218Shared: Sports · Arcade · Simulation
  6. Super Arcade Football68 % positive of 164Shared: Sports · Football (Soccer) · Arcade
  7. Behold the Kickmen85 % positive of 375Shared: Sports · Football (Soccer) · Casual
  8. EA SPORTS™ FIFA 2175 % positive of 55,637Shared: Sports · Football (Soccer) · Simulation
  9. Pocket League Story88 % positive of 162Shared: Sports · Football (Soccer) · Simulation
  10. Legend Bowl87 % positive of 919Shared: Sports · Arcade · Simulation
  11. Sunday Rivals91 % positive of 300Shared: Sports · Arcade · Simulation
  12. Foosball - Street Edition58 % positive of 103Shared: Sports · Football (Soccer) · Casual

By look

Looks like Backyard Soccer '98

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

More matches

  1. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition97 % positive of 144,539
  2. Pixel Cup Soccer - Ultimate Edition83 % positive of 885
  3. Duck Game96 % positive of 25,286
  4. Sam & Max Hit the Road95 % positive of 965
  5. Putt-Putt® Saves The Zoo97 % positive of 608
  6. New Star™ Soccer 570 % positive of 692
  7. Backyard Baseball80 % positive of 1,315
  8. Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe98 % positive of 3,514
  9. Vidiot Game89 % positive of 226
  10. Pizza Frenzy Deluxe96 % positive of 251
  11. The Jolly Gang's Misadventures in Africa / Масяня в полной Африке94 % positive of 375
  12. Ball 2D: Soccer Online71 % positive of 203

At a glance

What games like Backyard Soccer '98 have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Backyard Soccer '98: Sports (23 of 24), Football (Soccer) (16) and Arcade (13).
  • They came out between 2014 and 2026, 6 of them after Backyard Soccer '98 (2024).
  • 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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