- #1 Backyard Hockey '02
96% matchVery Positive81% of 99 reviews2025
Dev: Mega Cat StudiosPub: Playground Productions
Windows
Return to the ice with your favorite Backyard athletes! The original Backyard Hockey 2002 is back and now enhanced to run on Steam. Skate, pass, shoot, and score in this classic game!
Why similar: Sports 53.8%, Hockey 46.2% ★
- #2 Super Blood Hockey
97% matchVery Positive92% of 1,104 reviews2017
Dev: Loren Lemcke
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Create and manage your team in a violent, dystopic world of no-rules, fast-paced, arcade-style, ice hockey action. Adjust training regimens, control diets, administer black market pharmaceuticals, and provide healthcare (or not) to a ragtag team of convicts at the mercy of your underhanded tactics.
Why similar: Hockey 56.9% ★, Sports 43.1%
- #3 Mini Hockey Champ!
95% matchVery Positive86% of 62 reviews2017
Dev: 26k
Windows
Re-mastered in 2023, Mini Hockey Champ! is a 1v1 arcade hockey game set in the wild days of hockey's past! Drop the gloves and fight through the world's best with board rattling hits, blueline clappers, and filthy spin-o-ramas to proudly hoist the cup!
Why similar: Hockey 56.9% ★, Sports 43.1%
- #4 Mutant Football League
94% matchVery Positive93% of 854 reviews2017
Dev: Digital Dreams Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 64.9 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Mutants and monsters unleash maniacal carnage on the gridiron in this crazy gore fest of arcade-style football. Packed full of humor, intense online multiplayer action, and strategy.
Why similar: Sports 60.2%, Violent 39.8%
- #5 Slapshot: Rebound
93% matchVery Positive83% of 13,870 reviews2024
Dev: Oddshot Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Slapshot: Rebound is a physics-based multiplayer game where you play an arcade style match of hockey. No shoot button, no puck glue, no RNG. It’s up to you and your team to take control of the puck, pass, shoot, outplay your opponents. Play with your friends or team up with other Slapshot players!
Why similar: Hockey 57.6% ★, Sports 42.4%
- #6 Hockey Player VR
94% matchMixed59% of 51 reviews2019
Dev: Brosvision s.r.o.
Windows
Play hockey in first person view and develop your own tactics and tricks. Finally, a hockey game where you have 100% control. Test out your puck skills in online multiplayer mode.
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #7 Floorball League 2010
91% matchVery Positive89% of 81 reviews2025
Dev: Prodigium Game StudiosPub: FIJOY Games
Windows
The first official floorball video game is back! Play real teams, enter tournaments, and relive the fast-paced action of 2010.
Why similar: Hockey 54% ★, Sports 46%
- #8 capy hoky
92% matchVery Positive88% of 58 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Sokpop S04: capy hoky - capybara ice-hockey! Control a cast of wacky animals in this funny sports game. Play your real or AI friends in versus mode, or team up to compete in the Capy Cup and unlock new animals!
Why similar: Sports 77.9%, Hockey 22.1% ★
- #9 Speedball 2 HD
91% matchMixed66% of 670 reviews2013
Dev: Bitmap BrothersPub: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Speedball 2 HD is a modern reincarnation on the classic, futuristic cyberpunk sports game Speedball, originally developed by the Bitmap Brothers and first released for the Atari ST in 1990. A brutal mix of handball and ice hockey placed at break-neck pace.
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #10 Goons: Legends & Mayhem
89% matchVery Positive84% of 103 reviews2024
Dev: RageCure GamesPub: Balor Games
Windows
A frantic blend of beat 'em up and arcade hockey that plays out over various themed levels with opposing teams of heroes outfitted with unique abilities. Insane sports action like you've never seen before!
Why similar: Hockey 58.8% ★, Sports 41.2%
- #11 Tape to Tape
89% matchVery Positive92% of 3,558 reviews2023
Dev: Excellent Rectangle
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Tape to Tape is a roguelite hockey game where every choice matters on your journey to build the best hockey team. Choose your path, hire unique players, discover synergies between them, pick unique abilities, bribe the referees or visit the Blademaster on your way to restore hockey's former glory.
Why similar: Hockey 57.3% ★, Sports 42.7%
- #12 Soccer Rage
90% matchVery Positive81% of 647 reviews2015
Dev: Stamina-Games
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 1.4 hrs≥1hr: 24%
Soccer Rage is a sport/action game that features: a hybrid engine of soccer and fighting. This game has a dynamic and fast paced soccer gameplay. There are no red cards, no off-sides, no outside balls, no substitutions, brutal fouls are allowed along with fighting.
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #13 Puck
84% matchVery Positive84% of 5,658 reviews2025
Dev: NS7
Windows · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Fast-paced physics-based hockey simulation where precision, strategy, and chaos collide. Control every move, pass, and shot with realistic puck physics, dynamic player movement, and thrilling gameplay. Master the rink with friends or team up with other Puck players for ultimate hockey dominance!
Why similar: Hockey 56.4% ★, Sports 43.6%
- #14 Air Hockey
88% matchVery Positive80% of 81 reviews2017
Dev: Standby
Windows
Online PvP Air Hockey with fast-paced gameplay! Overcome your opponent by using madskillz and powerful pickups.
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #15 Bunny Hop League
87% matchMostly Positive71% of 711 reviews2017
Dev: PolyDigital
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 20.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Inspired by old school first person shooters, Bunny Hop League takes you right back to the golden age of gaming, when hopping, strafing and surfing were all the rage.
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #16 Action Arcade Wrestling
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 158 reviews2019
Dev: VICO Game StudioPub: Reverb Triple XP
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Perform a BODY SLAM, knock’em down with a CLOTHESLINE, pull off the classic PILEDRIVER AND… shoot LIGHTNING BOLTS into your opponent's face?! Whatever you do… don’t find yourself looking up at the lights!
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #17 Ultimate MMA
86% matchMixed49% of 208 reviews2020
Dev: Anton PushkarevPub: gridmaniac
Windows
Ultimate MMA is a mixed martial art fighting game. Fight in the tournament, unlock new moves, create unique fighters and play with friends.
Why similar: Sports 87%, Violent 13%
- #18 Hockey Legacy Manager 25
82% matchVery Positive93% of 73 reviews2024
Dev: Hockey Legacy Manager
Windows
Build the ultimate legacy as the general manager of a professional hockey team!
Why similar: Hockey 50.3% ★, Sports 49.7%
- #19 Shufflepuck Cantina Deluxe
85% matchVery Positive84% of 539 reviews2013
Dev: Agharta Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
After jumping through a wormhole and landing onto this forsaken planet far from home, you are standing in front of a huge interstellar Casino where everyone plays air hockey for a living! Plug your Oculus Rift DK (or not!) and master the finest Shufflepucking techniques!
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #20 Goalie Challenge VR
84% matchVery Positive94% of 126 reviews2017
Dev: Josh BeattyPub: Anchor Reality
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Feel the whizz of the puck fly by your skull in this fun and fast-paced goalie VR simulator. Fully immersive with surround sound and haptic vibration for a realistic hockey experience. Play against friends with new local shooter mode.
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #21 Baki Hanma: Blood Arena
80% matchMostly Positive75% of 133 reviews2025
Dev: Purple Tree S R LPub: Purple Play LLC
Windows
Step into the shoes of Baki Hanma in this action-packed 2D anime game. With explosive special moves and original music, fight your way to become the god of combat in the ultimate test of strength.
Why similar: Sports 59.5%, Violent 40.5%
- #22 Eastside Hockey Manager
83% matchVery Positive86% of 1,369 reviews2015
Dev: Sports InteractivePub: SEGA
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 39.3 hrs≥1hr: 46%
EHM offers fans the most realistic, in-depth and immersive simulation of hockey management available, giving them the chance to manage either club or country in any of the world’s top hockey-playing nations.
Why similar: Hockey 62.1% ★, Sports 37.9%
- #23 Hockey Legacy Manager 26
79% matchVery Positive93% of 72 reviews2025
Dev: Hockey Legacy Manager
Windows
Build the ultimate legacy as the general manager of a professional hockey team!
Why similar: Hockey 50.7% ★, Sports 49.3%
- #24 Street Hoop
82% matchVery Positive82% of 60 reviews2019
Dev: Digicon
Windows
The legendary 3 on 3 arcade basketball game returns.
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #25 Shoresy: Legends of the North
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Treewood GamesPub: New Metric Media
Windows
Shoresy: Legends of the North is a fast-paced hockey RPG set in the Shoresy universe. Create your skater and join the Sudbury Blueberry Bulldogs on a quest to save the world from the legendary Hockey Godz, or go head-to-head with friends with a roster of fan-favourite characters.
Why similar: Hockey 57.1% ★, Sports 42.9%
- #26 Franchise Hockey Manager 6
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 333 reviews2019
Dev: Out of the Park Developments
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 75.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Franchise Hockey Manager returns for the 2019-20 season with plenty of additions to the deepest, most authentic hockey strategy gaming experience you can find. Choose one of 32 leagues around the globe and select a team to guide to glory, including a chance at the ultimate prize, the Stanley Cup®.
Why similar: Sports 70.8%, Hockey 29.2% ★
- #27 Fat Prisoner Simulator 3
79% matchVery Positive89% of 117 reviews2021
Dev: Kiddy
Windows
Fat Prisoner Simulator 3 - a hockey simulator where you are going to play the role of a prisoner. Each team consists of three players. Your have to score as many goals in the opponent’s net as you can in order to win the match.
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #28 Speedball
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 83 reviews2026
Dev: Rebellion
Windows
A brand new entry into the legendary Bitmap Brothers series! Venture into the grim future of 2138 where mega-corporations use Speedball to distract the downtrodden masses from their miserable lives.
Why similar: Sports 81%, Violent 19%
- #29 Thunder Ray
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 307 reviews2023
Dev: Purple Tree S R L
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Thunder Ray is Arcade-Boxing, Retro-like gameplay with blood and violence. Defeat all the best fighters in the galaxy to become the GOAT of the universe.
Why similar: Sports 79.2%, Violent 20.8%
- #30 Knockout League - Arcade VR Boxing
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 369 reviews2018
Dev: Grab Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Welcome to Knockout League, a single player arcade-style boxing game built from the ground up for virtual reality. Dodge flaming uppercuts, block sweeping tentacle attacks, and pummel your opponents using 1:1 tracking of your head and hands.
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #31 Super Psycho Baseball
72% matchVery Positive92% of 243 reviews2025
Dev: internetcharlesPub: Giant Scam Industries
Windows
Welcome to Super Psycho Baseball, a sadistic home-run hitting roguelike in which you try to conquer a gang of pitch-slinging bosses, each more psychotic than the last. Come face five fully-realized pitchers, rack up powerups, and reach the top!
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #32 Franchise Hockey Manager 5
77% matchMixed60% of 154 reviews2018
Dev: Out of the Park Developments
Windows · Mac
Franchise Hockey Manager 5 is the only sports strategy game licensed by the NHL ® , including the real clubs, awards, and trophies associated with the greatest hockey league in the world. FHM 5 allows you to build your hockey franchise into a perennial Stanley Cup winner YOUR way, in the current 2018-19 season or back through the entire...
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #33 Disc Jam
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,563 reviews2017
Dev: High Horse Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
A fast-paced action-sports game that pits 2-4 players against each other in a frantic combination of air hockey and tennis. Players scramble to retrieve and throw a glowing disc while unleashing devastating abilities and defending their end zone.
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #34 Finnish Cabin Mayhem - Mökkimähinä
71% matchVery Positive95% of 146 reviews2024
Dev: Sophisticated keppana enjoyers
Windows
Alcohol. Action. Violence. Get ready to take your friends "behind the sauna" using whatever there is at hand.
- #35 Franchise Hockey Manager 3
77% matchMixed58% of 98 reviews2016
Dev: Out of the Park Developments
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Franchise Hockey Manager 3 is the deepest, most authentic hockey strategy game you can find! Now officially licensed by the NHL®, so you can take the reins of your favorite franchise, FHM3 includes real 2016-2017 rosters for 22 playable leagues, a new gameplay mode that makes the game much more approachable, and tons of other new...
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #36 Hockey Super Squad
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 275 reviews2024
Dev: RageCure Games
Windows
Hockey Super Squad is a thrilling free to play 3v3 multiplayer online hockey game featuring character creation and lite-RPG mechanics. Jump in alone or with friends!
Why similar: Hockey 56.8% ★, Sports 43.2%
- #37 Mace and Grace: action fight blood fitness arcade
74% matchVery Positive87% of 53 reviews2020
Dev: PlatformaVR
Windows
Protect your Grace and Kingdom. Have a blast dodging bombs and smashing enemy knights. Seize the day and go for another round. Play the most furious Medieval arcade ever!
Why similar: Sports 76.9%, Violent 23.1%
- #38 RetroMania Wrestling
72% matchVery Positive84% of 318 reviews2021
Dev: Retrosoft Studios
Windows
RetroMania Wrestling is a throwback arcade game inspired by classics of the past, with great 2D action and an eclectic roster of wrestlers past and present!
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #39 River City Melee Mach!!
73% matchMixed67% of 161 reviews2019
Dev: Arc System Works
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 34%
The original battle royal game is back and buffed!! No rules, and fights to the finish where anything goes! Over 180 characters and over 250 different special moves!
- #40 Martial Arts: Capoeira
75% matchMixed43% of 60 reviews2014
Dev: Twelve GamesPub: Libredia
Windows
Sport and RPG elements have been combined with traditional fighting game mechanics for the first time, to offer unrivaled realism and challengingly brutal gameplay. Train until you sweat blood to increase skills such as endurance, speed, leg and arm strength.
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #41 Mutant Football League 2
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 142 reviews2025
Dev: Digital Dreams Entertainment
Windows
Mutant Football League 2 is a hard-hitting, arcade-style football game that combines intense gameplay, wisecracking mutants, weapons, deep strategy, and outrageous humor. Prepare yourself for the most insanely brutal football you’ll ever experience.
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #42 Raging Justice
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 160 reviews2018
Dev: MakinGames LtdPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The city is in chaos! With crime and corruption around every corner, it’s all down to a team of hard-hitting justice seeking mavericks, to clean up the streets with some tough justice! Raging Justice is a classic beat ‘em up, dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
Why similar: Violent 100%
- #43 Backyard Basketball '01
66% matchVery Positive89% of 122 reviews2025
Dev: Mega Cat StudiosPub: Playground Productions
Windows
Return to the blacktop with your favorite Backyard athletes! The original Backyard Basketball 2001 is back and now enhanced to run on Steam. Dribble, shoot, and take that ball to the hoop!
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #44 Pro Wrestling X
74% matchMixed45% of 299 reviews2014
Dev: Wrestling Gamers United
Windows
Pro wrestling video games lost their classic style of fun over a decade ago, and we're bringing it back with Pro Wrestling X. This lean-and-mean, no-frills Early Access debut is made BY wrestling fans, FOR wrestling fans.
Why similar: Sports 57.4%, Violent 42.6%
- #45 Dangerous Golf
73% matchMixed48% of 664 reviews2016
Dev: Three Fields EntertainmentPub: Three Fields Entertainment
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 27%
Not your traditional Golf game. Humorous destruction and over the top trickshots are the way to score big. Smash up the toilets, make a big mess in the Kitchen, destroy priceless antiques in the Palace. This is golf played indoors where the more expensive the object the higher its game value.
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #46 BRUTALISTICK VR
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,206 reviews2024
Dev: Kubunautilus
Windows
The golden age of violent flash games now in your VR headset. Fully physics based combat with melee and firearms featuring copious amounts of blood, gore and destruction.
Why similar: Violent 100%
- #47 CARRUMBLE
71% matchMixed62% of 159 reviews2019
Dev: 3DClouds
Windows
Drive on down to the CARRUMBLE arena and test your skills against fearsome opponents in a lawless clash where no quarter is given or taken. Climb the ranks and aim to become the CARRUMBLE champion!
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #48 BVOVB - Bruising Vengeance of the Vintage Boxer
67% matchVery Positive96% of 115 reviews2022
Dev: rostok.itch.io
Windows
Street brawler with a vintage style.
- #49 Franchise Hockey Manager 4
70% matchMixed65% of 146 reviews2017
Dev: Out of the Park Developments
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
The Most Hockey Ever! Franchise Hockey Manager 4 is the deepest, most authentic hockey strategy game available. FHM 4 is officially licensed by the NHL®, includes real 2017-18 rosters, packs even more features than any of its predecessors, and takes the series to a whole new level in terms of realism and gameplay.
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #50 Ball Grabbers
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 55 reviews2018
Dev: Part Time Monkey
Windows
Two-player Arcade mayhem in tight arenas - Toss the ball to your opponent's goal before they get the chance!
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #51 Franchise Hockey Manager 12
63% matchMostly Positive78% of 116 reviews2025
Dev: game54 SoftwarePub: Out of the Park Developments
Windows · Mac
Franchise Hockey Manager returns for the 2025-26 season with plenty of additions to the deepest, most authentic hockey strategy gaming experience you can find. Choose from teams around the globe and select a team to guide to glory, including a chance at the ultimate prize, the Stanley Cup®.
Why similar: Sports 54.6%, Hockey 45.4% ★
- #52 Real Boxing™
70% matchMixed64% of 1,440 reviews2014
Dev: Vivid Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Real Boxing™ brings you the most exhilarating, no holds barred boxing experience ever seen on Steam. Featuring ultra-realistic motion capture from real boxers, with amazing graphics built using the powerful Unreal Engine, you’ll be sure to feel every hook, jab, and uppercut.
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #53 Skull Ball Heroes
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 72 reviews2016
Dev: Strength in Numbers Studios, Inc
Windows
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Sick of playing non-violent sports games? Kill your opponents instead of watching them roll around the ground like babies. Skull Ball Heroes lets you suck at e-sports and still have a great time harassing your enemies, scoring goals, and being an overall champion. 4v4 Online PvP murdery soccer.
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #54 Hot Shot Burn
67% matchVery Positive91% of 193 reviews2020
Dev: Artifex Mundi
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Hot Shot Burn is the hilariously violent party brawler that lets you compete in the galaxy's ultimate televised blood sport. Experience crazy couch battles full of ridiculous flukes and insane skill shots for up to 4 players.
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #55 Hockey Manager 20|20
68% matchMixed67% of 93 reviews2020
Dev: netmin games
Windows
Enjoy the state of the art hockey management. Prove yourself as a manager and coach in the day-to-day business of ice hockey and lead your favorite club to fame and fortune.
Why similar: Hockey 56.1% ★, Sports 43.9%
- #56 Tackle for Loss
61% matchVery Positive100% of 90 reviews2026
Dev: Indifferent Penguin
Windows · Mac
Tackle. Die. Repeat. Use American football skills to dash through a bloody 2D underworld. Fast, top-down carnage until the floor is cleared. You’re at the top of your game... but unfortunately, your C.T.E. is catching up.
Why similar: Violent 100%
- #57 Bloody Knuckles Street Boxing
65% matchMixed53% of 210 reviews2024
Dev: Luvseatshawty
Windows
The Sweet Science Meets The STREETS!
Why similar: Sports 100%
- #58 Wild Animal Sports Day
66% matchVery Positive92% of 337 reviews2018
Dev: Paul BirdPub: Marjupi Games
Windows · Mac
All your favourite Wild Animals are competing for the title of Wild Animal Champion of Champions! Tennis, Hurdles, Darts, Diving, Skiing, Pole-Vault, Trampolining and for the first time in a game Rhythmic Gymnastics! But watch out for King Croc! Wild Animal Sports Day (WASD) is out now!
Why similar: Sports 83.1%, Violent 16.9%
