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How long isNBA 2K26?
29 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 10 hours and 81 hours
NBA 2K26 among the 129 sports games here
The whole tier list#27
of 129
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 64%
- got past 2 hours
- +26 on the kind's 39%
- 38%
- past 20 hours
- +27 on the kind's 11%
- 79%
- launched it
- +24 on the kind's 55%
- 42
- libraries own it
- 1 in 59 of the 2,483 read here
Next to it in the ranking
Long for a sports game: 29 hours for the typical player, longer than 177 of 187 sports games here.
23% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
68% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
70% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
70% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
70% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
64% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
59% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
50% recommend it at 200 to 500 hours
50% recommend it past 500 hours
Does NBA 2K26 hold up?
Wears thin
Do the first two hours of NBA 2K26 tell you?
In the first two hours23%recommend it
After that66%recommend it
36 in 100 said no: 33 after the window had closed, 3 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 29 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 10 hours and 81 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 33,800 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It is recommended most by players at 10–20 hours: 70% of them. Among players past 500 hours that falls to 50%.
3% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 23% of those recommend it. After the window, 66% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 93% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 34 hours in.
When would you get there?
4weeks
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 29 hours on Sunday, December 13.
Half of its reviewers had played between 10 and 81 hours: Nov 24 to Feb 3, 2027 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Is NBA 2K26 worth it?
Video Game Backlog
One hour, at list price
NBA 2K26
- Steam list price, US
- $69.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 29 h
- sports game rate
- $3.20/h
- 29 h at that rate
- $93
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is NBA 2K26 worth it? Mostly.
Good value
1.3× the hours of a typical sports game, for the same money
Mixed
66% recommend it after the refund windowmost sports games: 90%
Gets played
80% of owners here have played itmost sports games: 53%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $69.99, the typical player's 29 hours come to $2.41 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 66% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $2.41 an hour, NBA 2K26 is cheaper per hour than 116 of 187 sports games here: the typical one of 187 sports games here charges $3.20, so the same $69.99 buys 1.3× the hours.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (sports games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Where can I play NBA 2K26 today?
Almost anywhere
PC, PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2 and 3 more.
- todayXbox Series2025
- todayPS42025
- todaySwitch 22025
- todayPC2025
- todayPS52025
- todayXbox One2025
- todaySwitch2025
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines NBA 2K26 came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like NBA 2K26?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like NBA 2K26, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long NBA 2K26 would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
@derk holds this page
- 1st
@derk73 h - 2nd
@greenarrow54 h - 3rdopen– – –
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with NBA 2K26?
1 in 17
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.
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How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from NBA 2K26: a kind of game it is that NBA 2K26 is not, a feature its tags carry that NBA 2K26's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.