Sports game recommendations

Football, basketball, skateboarding or arcade golf: a sports game is a fixture in every library — and some transcend the sport itself and become classics. Here are the highest rated sports titles.

The 25 best sports games

1. 1

   Jet Set Radio (2000)

   PlayStation · PC — PS Store ↗

   94
2. 2

   Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (2001)

   PC

   94
3. 3

   Out of the Park Baseball 17 (2016)

   PC

   92
4. 4

   Alto's Adventure (2015)

   PC

   92
5. 5

   100 Asian Cats (2023)

   PC

   92
6. 6

   Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (2000)

   PC

   91
7. 7

   Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 (2002)

   PC

   91
8. 8

   Superflight (2017)

   PC

   91
9. 9

   Zeepkist (2021)

   PC

   91
10. 10

    NBA 2K17 (2016)

    PlayStation · PC

    90
11. 11

    MLB 11 The Show (2011)

    PlayStation — PS Store ↗

    90
12. 12

    Tony Hawk's Underground (2003)

    PC

    90
13. 13

    Elasto Mania (2000)

    PC — Steam ↗

    90
14. 14

    CarX Drift Racing Online (2017)

    PlayStation · PC — PS Store ↗

    90
15. 15

    Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 (2008)

    PlayStation · PC

    90
16. 16

    Mount Your Friends (2014)

    PC

    90
17. 17

    ACE Academy (2016)

    PC

    90
18. 18

    Shredders (2022)

    PC

    90
19. 19

    Racket: Nx (2017)

    PC

    89
20. 20

    F1 2017

    PlayStation · PC — PS Store ↗

    89
21. 21

    Eleven: Table Tennis VR (2016)

    PC

    89
22. 22

    Golf Peaks (2018)

    Nintendo · PC

    89
23. 23

    Ragnarock (2020)

    PC

    89
24. 24

    Golf Around! (2019)

    PC

    89
25. 25

    NHL 10 (2009)

    PlayStation

    88

How this list was built: we start from a catalog of 20,827 PlayStation, Nintendo and PC games, then filter and sort by score — the critic score (Metacritic or IGDB) where it exists, the player score in the exceptions (hover a score to see its source). It is updated along with the catalog.