NBA 2K26
Skip · Other · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 11, under the fair line, at $69.99.
- Length
- 34.7h
- Value
- $2.02/hr
- Reviews
- 64% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB or AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 4 GB or Intel Arc A580, 110 GB of storage. Windows only.
Bragging rights are on the line in MyCAREER, MyTEAM, MyNBA, The W, and Play Now. Showcase your bag of moves with hyper realism, Powered by ProPLAY™, and challenge your friends, or rivals, in NBA 2K26’s competitive modes—and leave no doubt that you wear the crown.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $9.79, set in May 2026. Its cuts run 67 percent off as a rule. There have been 7 in the 15 months tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, WWE 2K25 ($59.99, scores 24) beats it on value, while it beats NBA 2K25 ($69.99, scores 5).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 21 percent of the 866 reviews written there were positive, against 64 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
57% 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
10.7K players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 06:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
NBA 2K26 scores 11/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3472040/nba-2k26Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Sep 30.
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