NBA 2K26
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NBA 2K27
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The hustle doesn’t stop and the run never ends in NBA 2K27. Chase greatness around the clock in MyCAREER, MyTEAM, and MyNBA, and make your hoop dreams a reality. From the Steam store page
570 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
29
Rotten
139 positive · 340 negative
95% range 25–33%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 139 | 340 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 8 | 6 | 54 |
| Mastodon * | 2 | 0 | 15 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 4 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
1,042 of 1,944 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Overwhelmingly negative, with players citing recycled content and broken mechanics.
The majority of players express deep frustration, calling the game a copy-paste of previous titles with little improvement. Many describe it as a 'trash game' and warn others not to buy it. [7][12][19]
Common criticisms include poor shooting mechanics, forced story roles in MyCareer, lack of crossplay for PC, and rampant cheating. Some players note that offline play is decent, but the monetization and bugs ruin the experience. [3][4][15][17][31]
Praised offline play
Criticised recycled content · poor shooting mechanics · forced story roles · lack of crossplay · cheating
Summary drafted by an AI model from the 36 reactions it cites ([n] links open each post), then checked by code: every paragraph cites real posts and every quote is verbatim. Written Oct 8, 2026. Method
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
NBA 2K27 sits at 29% positive across 479 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Reactions
60 of 570 · most liked firstIF YOU'RE A LIFELONG 2K FAN, PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE BUYING From a lifelong 2K fan, this is genuinely one of the most disappointing pieces of software I've ever spent money on. I bought this game mainly because of the CO-OP MyCareer. Me and my friend were expecting an actual career experience we could play through together, something with a real season grind, progression, storylines, rivalries, cutscenes, and at least SOME feeling that we're actually NBA players going through a career.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I type this with the utmost hate in my heart and a senseless rage filled within me. My anguish and pain while playing this product is only comparable to being sent to the depths of hell while Jeffrey Epstein takes my manhood away from me. Let's begin this review by discussing the abhorrent disregard for offline MyCareer players. Clearly whoever was in charge of designing the cap breaker system as well as the badge token system lost custody of their children and hate their life - It's a pure…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The graphics are worse than they were 10 years ago in this one somehow. It feels clunky, and unresponsive. I could drone on about how this is the biggest pile of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ these clowns have produced yet, like I did for the previous few generations if you guys want to look it up for a laugh, but I'm just so tired of being disappointed. Please someone reading this with coding talent, just make a better 2k. We are all ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dying for an alternative to this absolutely rank fecal matter of a game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is awful i tried to refund it but sadly steam won't let me. Let this be a warning, DO NOT BUY THIS.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ronald, What you have developed is not merely a terrible game. Terrible games can possess charm. They can fail with dignity. This, however, feels like an elaborate act of contempt, engineered with such precision that incompetence alone can no longer explain it. Be assured that I will remember the experience you have bestowed upon me with malice. Your creation has achieved a peculiar immortality, not as entertainment, nor even as art, but as evidence. It stands as proof that suffering need…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The requirements during the My Career story force you into specific roles that are either difficult to manage, totally go against my playstyle, and then they add a whole new buddy method that seems nice on paper until they force you to run specific combo plays to advance. I do not like or appreciate this level of funneling you down a specific path that also gates your advancement. Given it seems like the 'running mate' idea is more long term...this method to improve it, to me, is stupid, and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →trash game. it is impossible to make consistent three pointers in online matches even if you're open and 99 overall. must have at least 500 hours to be good at this game. TOO MANY CHEATERS its like every other game you play there is a cheater. HONESTLY there is no point in buying this game better off playing 2k26
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Exactly the same as last year. Have to rely on mods to make the game look and play well.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →2K advertises NBA 2K27 as having “Crossplay,” but what they don’t make clear enough is that PC/Steam players cannot play with PS5 players. So if you buy the game on Steam expecting to play with your friends on PlayStation 5 because you saw “Crossplay” advertised, you’re out of luck.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →dumbest player base in the history of gaming. just the stupidest people on the planet buy this game. your players eat crayons for breakfast and ice cream for dinner
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is awful, borderline copy paste of 2k26. Same city. Same graphics, same everything. Somehow they actually managed to downgrade everything that made 26 fun. The dribbling is lifeless, the defence is still awful and you feel like your myplayer is stuck in quicksand. Its a shameless horrible awful terrible disgusting unfun piece of garbage. I have played every 2k from 2k16 to now. This is the 2nd one I have requested a refund for
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Garbage trash, refunded.. Someone else desperately need to get the IP rights to NBA games cause 2k is one the worst game companies in the world hands down.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not having crossplay in 2026 is a joke at this point, you are behind most major titles. The game is fun but it is a reskin, also capping fps to 60 online is just dumb.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →2k is what it is gameplay wise. But the company has made a clear deliberate decision to prioritize sucking every last dollar from their player base over creating any sort of meaningful improvements to their game. The fact that online play is locked at 60 FPS on a game created in 2026 is actually insane. Do not buy on PC, 2k, do better please. Fix your engine, stop capping frames to make up for your outdated engine.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Same terrible game year after year this one being exceptionally lazy; re-used alot from last years 2k. Really shows there is no great current basketball games. Poor servers, terribly low iq playerbase, okay mechanics, overpriced, next 2k will come-out in 11 months making this one dead. Same grind every year for nothing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My career is still tied to online, so no sliders. gameplay feels a lot smoother. green windows and teammate AI still completely unbalanced above pro difficulty. Seriously your teammates turn into potatoes and with 90 3 you will have a paper thin window wide open. unless you're gonna run xims online another dont waste the money year.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've found DLSS 5 can slash frame rates by up to 73% on an RTX 5080 gaming PC in NBA 2K27, and I'm wondering what kind of mega-rig would justify the performance hit.
negative · AI labelView post →For new players coming into this game, welcome to the ♥♥♥♥ show. for returning players, dont shoot yourself in the foot and then complain about the pain. this is 2k, it is going to be garbage every year, you know this. A crackhead isnt buying crack because he thinks its healthy. I am not buying 2k because I think it will be good, I am a junkie for this. One mans trash is another mans treasure and baby Im King of the landfill. Now watch this 3pt step through.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Shooting feels terrible. Different shot speeds, you can release it green but then it randomly changes to out of green. Even with Max Shooting you cannot hit a non green shot. New badge system is terrible.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →only got it to play with friends on other platforms. not being able to do that its pretty worthless to me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just the same old thing. Same dribble moves and escapes. Everyone just greens threes while you don't. I wish it was more fun to play online.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think this will be my last time purchasing this game at full price. sure they updated the animations, but they didn't update any of the character models for instance, Deni Avidja hasn't worn a headband since being in Portland, they had him wearing one in 2K26 and still in 2K27, the 2K series is exactly what happens when you have an monopoly on the NBA sports game universe. no one has any other choice which gives 2K the advantage of not having to innovate and knowing people will still buy it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty good start for Gears of War: E-Day on console. According to Circana's Player Engagement Tracker it ranked 4th in Xbox global players on October 6th (behind only Fortnite, Roblox and NBA 2K27). The average Xbox player ran the game for over 200 minutes on that day.
neutral · AI labelView post →DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!! IT HAS RACIST BIGOTS AND CHEATERS. A bunch of white people calling you the hard R every game you step in while they are using black players....makes zero sense. You can't even report them because 2k does nothing about it. As soon as the game starts before anyone even says anything someone has to drop the hard R like it gives them boost. Not to mention the cheaters... pulling up with 60-80 ovr with either 99 everything or low attributes but their characters play like…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Shooting/HUD settings reset almost every other game, this truly is the same game every year. 2K some bums
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After this ill just post all screenshots of cheaters so you all can see not to buy this joke of a game. I would love 2k if they would take this sht serious. Day 2 of EARLY ACCESS not even release the park and theater are completely infested with cheaters. From legend ranks, to 110 overall every stat. If you have played 2k you already know they do NOT care. So to protest ill fill their reviews with screenshots of cheaters so at least someone considering playing can realize how much of a waste of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →my game is bugged and it wont even let me play, 2k support is completely useless
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I requested a refund. I guess I should have looked into if this is a cross platform title. If you buy this and plan to play with your console friends, dont even bother. The PC version is PC ONLY you will not be able to play with any other platform.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Legitimately the crappiest game setup I've ever played. It's literally basketball, how do you screw that up? I buy the game just to play with my friends. We are a 5 man team and wait in queue for 10 minutes. I have terrible stats because I'm starting out, and we get put up against 90s overalls. My character can't move, pass, or shoot without the statted out opponents blocking or stealing the ball. Right after the 1st quarter I get kicked from the game for the "sake of my team". I do understand…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Glad I have it so I have a AAA basketball game to play on my Steam account but I'm never buying another NBA 2k game again. It's actually wretched just how monetized every little bit of this game is. You will not have fun unless you foot like, another $100 minimum on top of the $70 you paid to get in the door. For a game that lasts a year. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ man.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got on with my friends after install and got booted from the first 3 games I was in. For this you receive a fukcing ban. *30 minutes go by* I play with friends some more and get player of the half in our REC game, second half I miss 5 three point shots as the new build is trash. I GET ANOTHER FUKCING BAN, 60 MINUTES. Mike Wang eat ♥♥♥♥ Erick Boenisch is gay Rob Jones is cheating on his wife
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the shooting in this game is cancer. it has so many dif animations to ♥♥♥♥ up your shots
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →worst game ever stupid ass builds broken steals n defense its over
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neutral · AI labelView post →no crossplay for pc, super small pool for online play. myteam will be ass (3rd year in a row), and you will play the same 20 people in the rec/park
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →NOT RECOMMENDED Then, on August 28, an official update was released through Steam and immediately after installing that patch, the game completely stopped launching. Since then, I have tried basically everything: verifying the game files, completely reinstalling the game, clearing the Steam download cache, running the game as administrator, troubleshooting Easy Anti-Cheat, launching without EAC, testing both older and newer NVIDIA drivers, closing background applications, running Windows DISM…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →>Looking at the basic performance charts Nvidia has provided us so far, the ultra-high frame rate figures are based on 6x Multi Frame Generation. So, while the little RTX 5060 can churn out a 258 fps result in NBA 2K27 at 1080p Ultra settings with ray tracing and DLSS 5 enabled, the game underneath will actually be running at around 43 fps. I can feel the molasses from here.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yo 2k devs fix your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game. First of all why is there even a defense category in the game if it doesnt do anything. I dont have a defensive build but why is it when i have my arm on my opponents head its a bothered or light contested, and just saying I only once heavily contested a opponent and i have 66h on this dog ass game. And just saying my build is actually fast, but when someone has a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bronze high flying denier, and there 6,6 they become wemby, like when no one is close to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Typical predatory microtransactions behaviour, nothing will change same as their country, they just love predators.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We need to rethink games in general. Seems we are going the wrong direction from true adventure, imagination, wonder and simulations - to micro transactions and clickbait gameplay.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →MyCAREER is a complete failed and bloated insult of progression where everything is designed around buying VC coins in the shop. Your created 66/67 rated player is so horrible at everything that you are forced to grind for tons of hours and days to get incrementally better values and badges. It's a pay to win experience I just canceled and stick to offline play. On top of that I just read that the MyCareer length is limited: You are basically forced to retire once your era ends. It's such a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is unbelievable how NBA 2K continues to be the exact same game year after year, copy-pasted with the exact same legacy flaws and only a handful of minimal tweaks that sound good in marketing material like "X thousand new animations." What are you people actually working on all year if this is what you release as a full-price, brand-new title? There are countless issues in this game, but take player tendencies for example. Do you ever actually adjust shooting and touch tendencies and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To start: this is by a vary long margin THE WORST GAME I have ever played. If you will, conjur up images of a rigged game of dice in compton, you lose 7 in a row because the dice are weigted, then they shoot you straight in the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ face because why not. thats how it feels playing this ♥♥♥♥ ass game. everyone should permanently boycott all of 2k's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this game is horrific. game is full of cheaters before release kids are pathetic. Don't buy this game. the online doesn't work…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game is 100% P2W Unless you dont have a job or anything else to do with your waking hours, and the best part is about 20% of the unlocks reset every season, and you lose all the progress and characters you made next year!!!! literally only play this because the NBA doesnt seem to know how ♥♥♥♥ 2k is at making basketball games. ball goes through my character about 5 times a game, not exaggerating.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love being able to drop 60 bombs in nearly every single MyCareer match but Trace Miller's daddy shows up and suddenly Trace needs to score 20+ points per game or you're failing MyCareer. I feel like I'm a teen being forced to invite the loser kid to my party and then having it turned it into a party for that kid. I actually found the shooting and graphics looking a lot better in this compared to the last few years, but no crossplay for PC players and turning MyCareer into Trace Miller's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DONT BUY WASTE OF MONEY. GAME GETS WORSE EVERY YEAR, REPEAT!!! DONT BUY. I THOUGHT MAYBE IT WOULD BE DIFFERENT BUT ITS EVEN WORSE SUCH A WASTE OF MONEY GO SPEND IT ON UR FAMILY INSTEAD.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game play and visual wise it's an improvement over 26 Still just a predatory microtransaction fest designed to get as much money out of players as possible.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Horrible horrible game, coming off 2k26 which was pretty good and playing 2k27 is a terrible experience,it feels clunky, movement is cooked, defense is non existent you can shoot over anything, actually you cant shoot cuz they ruined that too. I think i genuinely had more fun on 2k25(which was the worst 2k until now). The most wasted money in my life. Do not buy this game please.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I am big fan of this franchise and I think the base game is quite good. SP is fun. But ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I have so much trouble. My game freeezes at random stages and I have to close it. All progress gone. The lags I get in online games is insane! i cant play the game at all. And its not my PC. I have a Nvidia 5080 and should have perfomance issues at all.. pls fix MM. I want to play REC wuthout having a slide show!!!!!!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the game is fun but its bad because not crossplayed from pc to console. I think its really bad cuz other people might have the same issue:(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Terrible product. All they did was add RNG animation speeds to jump shooting so you have no consistency, added terrible catch animations that take a full 3 seconds to recover from, boosted the steal and block success rate, and called it improved defense and shot contest system. If there are not MAJOR patches to this game by end of October, the game will be totally dead. DO NOT WASTE MONEY AND TIME ON THIS GAME. This is the worst NBA2k game EVER made.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →was actually enjoying it until i found out trace miller will replace a starter and will follow me even when i request a trade. how i wish i can still refund the game. MYCAREER BECAME OURCAREER. (for a person who only plays mycareer this is huge L)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just when you think this franchise couldn't sink any lower, they did it, guys. A game where feedback is only heard from content creators and twitch streamers, who cried and cried that it's ridiculous that some simple pleb can you know, just, press a button and dunk. "Here I am sir 2k sir, on a stream with 200k followers and this brown shirt just dunked in my face, stop that clowntown". Well 2k has freaking delivered. Forced layup and dunk meter introduced is probably the worst feature ever in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've literally bought all the NBA 2Ks in the last decade... I have never experienced this much BS where I cant do ANYTHING... this isn't a skill issue, this is a game/server or something issue I cant dribble or shoot in the rec as a pg with 95 3ball and 90 ball handle and speed... feels like im running with weighted shoes on.. meanwhile the pgs im guarding have on the lightest feet known to man.. theres some kind of lag/delay thats unbearable at the moment.. in mycareer game runs smooth / in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →really poorly made, they just copy and paste the same broken code each year.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →cheaters on day 2 of early access is crazy. still ballin' but c'mon 2k
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →with the latest patch this is the worst 2k ive ever played, 70% win ratio, removed SBMM, playing with people that have 25% win ratios. Increased game speed = changed shots... i guess we have to relearn the game because they gave us the worst slop in years.... DO NOT SPEND MONEY ON ANY BUILD. passing is horrible. rebounding is the worst ive ever seen......
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →2nd day on the game played 2 cheaters. Poo ♥♥♥♥ butt ass game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the referee is glitched and cannot pick up the ball in mycareer, restarted my game multiple times and the glitch keeps occurring
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Horrible game, blew 105 bucks on a piece of garbage just to watch my teammates in casual court and theatre fade from the 3 point line with semi contest and make it some how. This games new mechanics and graphics blow hot dog poop and is just genuinely horrible. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS PIECE OF ♥♥♥♥
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