NBA 2K25
Skip · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $69.99.
- Length
- 21.7h
- Value
- $3.23/hr
- Reviews
- 59% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB or AMD Radeon RX 570 4 GB or Intel Arc A580, 150 GB of storage. Windows only.
Command every court with authenticity and realism Powered by ProPLAY™, giving you ultimate control over how you play in NBA 2K25. Define your legacy in MyCAREER, MyTEAM, MyNBA, and The W.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $9.79, set in May 2025. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 8 in the 2 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Freestyle 2: Street Basketball (free, scores 31) beats it on value, while it beats Undisputed ($49.99, scores 3).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 19 percent of the 1,654 reviews written there were positive, against 59 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic, currency); the score docks it lightly for that.
Finishing takes 21.7 hours; clearing it takes 431, which is 20 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
47% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
27.5K players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Honestly... gameplay isn't what this review is for. Bought the game... installed it... tried to create a player, a team, use my player, and just was disappointed. Then I was going to give it another try, than looked at the space it takes up and immediately went, nope, not keeping a sports game installed when it takes like 150 GB. NO f***ing sports game, or any game except an ever evolving MMO, should EVER take more...
♥♥♥♥ this on god brandon podz is a useless piece of ♥♥♥♥ and should be executed how tf does his trash ass make a layup over dikembe 90 overall mutombo ♥♥♥♥ this i hope ronnie2k gets hit by a truck
i just love basketball but its a good game they my player mode also has to be offline
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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NBA 2K25 scores 5/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2878980/nba-2k25The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 23.
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