Best Basketball Games on Steam
Games about shooting, passing, dunking, defending, or managing basketball teams.
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1Hoop Land - Experience the ultimate hoops sim in Hoop Land, a retro-inspired basketball manager with modernized gameplay and fully customizable leagues. Build your legacy, lead a dynasty, or simulate endless seasons from college tournaments to championship trophies!
Oct 21, 2025
In this game, you can…
- customize not just teams and players, but also the announcers.
- take one character from high school to college, then declare for the draft or transfer, and keep the same career going in the pros.
- run a basketball universe for decades, simulate 15 seasons, and watch a player swap teams, stack titles, and get retired by multiple franchises.
- run a custom 32-team league, play it out like a season-long saga, and watch a 3–1 finals lead turn into a 4–3 collapse.
- simulate or spectate whole games, league days, or entire seasons whenever you want, then jump back in to play possessions yourself.
- break off your automatic defensive assignment anytime to go for a steal, tactical foul, or block in the middle of a possession.
- watch shots and rebounds play out with true 3D rim physics, loose balls, and bounces that aren't scripted.
- build trust with teammates by setting them up and scoring off their passes so they actually start feeding you when you call for the ball.
2KUNKUN Defender 2 - KUNKUN Defender 2 is a hybrid TPS and tower defense game where players must fend off waves of zombies in virus-infected zones, holding their ground until a helicopter arrives for extraction.
May 16, 2025
In this game, you can…
- summon a basketball player who drops elbows on zombies.
- stack an elbow-strike master with a mage and a 300% sweet potato liquor buff to turn into a zombie-shredding build.
- hold out against escalating zombie swarms until a helicopter arrives to extract you.
- sprint around shooting while your defenses hold off zombie waves.
- grab a rocket launcher or a Gatling gun when the screen starts filling with zombies.
- coordinate co-op runs where everyone's moving, firing, and reacting at once as waves get out of control.
3Salamander County Public Television - Become a professional thing-doer! Complete wacky assignments for Salamander County's local TV station, and solve the mystery of why nearly everyone in the county suddenly disappeared.
Jul 29, 2022
In this game, you can…
- compete on global leaderboards for plugging in a power cord in the cat plug minigame.
- fling an orange with a banana for distance and chase online leaderboard spots until it becomes a personal obsession.
- do handstands on clock hands, then jump between them as a full minigame built around that image.
- play a minigame about a penguin with an infinite neck as a surreal, playable challenge.
- stack hamburgers long enough that you lose track of time while trying to keep the tower alive.
- watch in-between-day TV broadcasts with commercials and a news ticker, then idle on the title screen to see what else airs.
- get assigned weird daily quotas for your public television station, then clear specific challenges to fill the day's programming.
- drive a car with mushrooms for wheels, treating the absurd vehicle like a real challenge you have to finish.
4Midnight Hoops - The court is peaceful after dark. Just you, a ball, and a whole lot of crickets. You put in the hours every evening. While your friends are out partying, you're on the grind. But tonight... you don't feel quite so alone.
Apr 22, 2026
5Basketball Classics - 5 on 5 Pro Basketball born from the golden era of sports games. This spiritual successor to the 8-bit ballers bridges the gap between retro and today’s simulation games. Side-scrolling, sweaty arcade action with simplified 3-button gameplay and retro vibes galore.
Dec 18, 2019
In this game, you can…
- turn every dunk into a mini-game where the scorer and defender counter each other.
- stand in a lane to call a play that instantly warps your player from backcourt to frontcourt, then execute it with a single pass.
- run a story quest where you beat legendary teams to recruit their stars, then replay in Story Mode+ against later-era icons.
- face-reject a dunk attempt in a rock-paper-scissors style paint duel.
- build a superteam across basketball eras, then rewrite history by winning titles with players like Pistol Pete.
- drive into the lane, pump-fake the defender, switch into a fade, then kick it backward to a wide-open three instead of taking the dunk.
- use play calls like isolation and pick-and-roll with timing-based perks, including an isolation speed boost if you call it right.
- block, steal, and contest in high-stakes moments where one clean denial can swing the whole possession.
6Class Escape - There are two types of test-takers. Those that take and beat it, and those that miserably fail it. Either case, he waits for your attempt.
Mar 25, 2022
In this game, you can…
- race to clear each room in under three minutes.
- cheese puzzles with weird, unintended solutions the game still allows.
- get watched and commented on by a judgmental instructor while you push through faculty-designed tests room by room.
- hunt down hidden owls tucked around the school.
- uncover a secret room after finishing the main escape.
- solve your way from classroom to lab to theater, unlocking each new area as the puzzles escalate and stack new rules on you.
- use an in-game hint system to nudge you forward when a room's solution refuses to click
7Pile Up! Box by Box - Pile Up! ticks all the right boxes as a family-friendly cooperative 3D platformer! Jump up, slide down, play together and carry the load!
Mar 18, 2021
In this game, you can…
- grab a co-op partner and literally carry them through a hard section so you both keep moving.
- use sticky tongue boxes to yoink other players around, then chain jet pack and fire extinguisher boxes into bigger and bigger stacks across the level.
- unlock optional PvP minigames like capture-the-flag matches, Boxball, Basketball, and Tic Pile Toe when you feel like switching from co-op to competition.
- stack boxes into stairs, bridges, and weird structures to reach places the level doesn't directly lead you.
- turn your teammates into platforms, climbing on each other while the level adapts to extra players.
- collect rings to open star areas, then replay finished levels to clean up secrets and bonus spaces like a scavenger hunt.
- unlock bonus routes, skins, and multiplayer minigames by gathering enough collectibles, so exploring changes what you can do later.
8RoboDunk - DUNK FROM SPACE in the 1st basketball roguelite! Smash and blast in the replayable single player and coop campaign: buy robots, upgrade their stats and unlock tons of new skills. Choose your path among different opponents, traps and rewards.. Up to 4 players versus where every match is different!
Sep 25, 2023
In this game, you can…
- charge a max-power jump from mid-court and dunk so hard you explode the hoop.
- pass to a teammate while they're already airborne so they can catch it and finish the dunk mid-air.
- pick temporary mods between rounds like double jumps, shocking passes, and ammo multipliers that stack into wild combinations.
- pull off 1-point to 4-point dunks by charging higher jumps for bigger scoring plays.
- ram an opponent to make them drop the ball, then chain the steal straight into a fast score.
- shield at the exact moment of a tackle, but only for a brief instant that you have to time perfectly.
- shield in mid-air during a dunk so enemies can't tackle you out of the shot.
- fight on courts packed with hazards like tornados, meteors, turrets, trampolines, and jump pads that reshape every play.
9Campus Legends College Basketball - Experience the ultimate college basketball management game. Take charge as a coach, recruit top talent, develop your team, and compete for national championships. Manage one of 192 teams (or up to 384 when using custom leagues), making strategic decisions to build your basketball dynasty
Jan 31, 2025
In this game, you can…
- play a 64-team national tournament bracket where a full-season plan can end in a sudden upset run to the title.
- lose a breakout star to the NBA draft and immediately pivot into the next phase of roster rebuilding.
- edit the entire world with custom leagues and databases, changing team names, logos, and using community-made setups to run your own college basketball universe.
- dial in your team's pace and shot profile, from firing early to grinding slow, and from perimeter-heavy to pounding the paint.
- pick training programs by player archetype, then focus workouts like strength development to shape who fits your system.
- get into recruiting battles for high school stars and transfers across the country who can completely reshape your program.
- watch your program rise or fall as transfers leave for different reasons and your prestige swings with success or collapse.
- build a coaching legacy across season after season, where recruiting, training, minutes, transfers, and graduations keep resetting the roster while you chase national titles.
10Hoop Fighters: Party Basketball - Knock down your opponents and smash their hoops! Hoop Fighters is an online, no-rules party basketball game for up to 6 players. Slide into opponents, throw punches or objects at them. Do your best to get the ball. Remember, there are no rules in Hoop Fighters!
Aug 11, 2025
In this game, you can…
- smash your opponents' hoop instead of just scoring.
- grab a knocked-out player and throw them into another player.
- hit a shot and have the ball respawn somewhere ridiculous, starting a new scramble.
- throw punches and body-check people to pry the ball loose.
- pick up objects and hurl them at opponents to steal the ball.
- score and instantly keep playing, with no stoppage between points.
- cram up to 6 players into a custom lobby for a rule-free basketball brawl.
