Games like Madden NFL 22
If Madden NFL 22 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Madden NFL 21, Madden NFL 23 and EA SPORTS™ College Football 27 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its franchise mode feels immersive, challenging and competitive. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Madden NFL 22 is a sports simulation released in 2021 by Tiburon and published by Electronic Arts. The game features franchise-mode-management with staff management features, an enhanced scenario engine, and weekly strategy elements. Players can engage in career-player-progression through Face of the Franchise, while the Ultimate Team mode offers ultimate-team-card-collection mechanics alongside drafting-and-trading systems. Players describe the franchise mode as immersive, and reviewers highlight a nostalgic appeal for long-time fans of the series. The Ultimate Team mode offers a competitive distraction through its card collection structure. Madden NFL 22 is playable on Steam Deck and currently holds a 58% positive rating from over 5000 Steam reviews.
About Madden NFL 22: Madden NFL 22 is where gameday happens. All-new features in Franchise include staff management, an enhanced scenario engine, and weekly strategy. Share avatar progress and player class between Face of The Franchise and The Yard with unified progression.
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Madden NFL 21
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Shares a competitive mood with Madden NFL 22.
Top pick for Madden NFL 22 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Madden NFL 22.
Go All Out in Madden NFL 21 where a fearless new generation of rising NFL stars is poised to change the game. Packed with fresh new features and innovative gameplay enhancements, Madden NFL 21 delivers new levels of ingenuity and control developed to inspire creativity on and off the field.
Madden NFL 23
WHY THIS
Shares franchise mode management and a competitive mood with Madden NFL 22.
Second-strongest match for Madden NFL 22 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Madden NFL 22.
Play your way into the history books. Control your impact with every decision in all-new ways. Call the shots in Franchise with free agency and trade logic updates, leave a legacy in Face of the Franchise: The League, and assemble the most powerful roster in all of Madden Ultimate Team™.
EA SPORTS™ College Football 27
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Madden NFL 22 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Madden NFL 22.
Step into the modern era of college football, where personal ambition meets program pride. Balance expectations, identity, and everything Saturday demands while immersed in traditions and pageantry of game day.
EA SPORTS™ FIFA 23
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Shares a competitive mood with Madden NFL 22.
Ranked #4 for Madden NFL 22 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Madden NFL 22.
FIFA 23 brings The World’s Game to the pitch, with HyperMotion2 Technology, men’s and women’s FIFA World Cup™, women’s club teams, cross-play features**, and more.
Legend Bowl
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Shares a challenging mood with Madden NFL 22.
Ranked #5 for Madden NFL 22 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Madden NFL 22.
Legend Bowl is a throwback to the classic 8-bit and 16-bit football games of the past. Take to the gridiron and fight your way to becoming a football legend! Enjoy sim-style gameplay, realistic weather, detailed stats, franchise mode, tournament mode, fully customizable rosters, and much much more!
Driving Strikers
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Ranked #6 for Madden NFL 22 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Casual with Madden NFL 22.
Driving Strikers is a 2.5D car football extravaganza in a 90s-style! Play 4-player matches across 5 different stadiums with wildly different and beautiful environments!
NBA 2K22
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Madden NFL 22.
Ranked #7 for Madden NFL 22 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Madden NFL 22.
NOTE: All multiplayer servers for NBA 2K22 will be shutdown as of 12/31/2023. After that time, all game functions requiring online servers will no longer function.
Judgeball: Lethal Arena - Early Access
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Madden NFL 22 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Casual with Madden NFL 22.
Let your skills or you muscles do the talking, it's your call. Judgeball: Lethal Arena is a fast-paced competitive 3V3 handbrawl game. Choose between multiple Scavengers with their unique set of skills to seize the victory.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Madden NFL 22.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Madden NFL 22.
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The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Madden NFL 22.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Madden NFL 22.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Madden NFL 22.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Madden NFL 22.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
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Madden NFL 24
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Madden NFL 22.
Another title from Tiburon, the studio behind Madden NFL 22. Shares Sports and Strategy with Madden NFL 22.
Experience the newest iteration of FieldSENSE™ in Madden NFL 24. More realistic character movement and smarter AI gives you control to play out your gameplay strategy with the confidence to dominate any opponent.
EA SPORTS™ Madden NFL 26
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Madden NFL 22.
Another title from Tiburon, the studio behind Madden NFL 22. Shares Sports and Simulation with Madden NFL 22.
EA SPORTS™ Madden NFL 26 leverages a new AI-powered machine learning system to convert thousands of plays from nearly a decade of real NFL data into more explosive gameplay.
Madden NFL 23
WHY THIS
Shares franchise mode management and a competitive mood with Madden NFL 22.
Another title from Tiburon, the studio behind Madden NFL 22. Shares Sports and Simulation with Madden NFL 22.
Play your way into the history books. Control your impact with every decision in all-new ways. Call the shots in Franchise with free agency and trade logic updates, leave a legacy in Face of the Franchise: The League, and assemble the most powerful roster in all of Madden Ultimate Team™.
EA SPORTS™ Madden NFL 25
WHY THIS
Shares franchise mode management and a competitive mood with Madden NFL 22.
Another title from Tiburon, the studio behind Madden NFL 22. Shares Sports and Strategy with Madden NFL 22.
Hit like you mean it with FieldSENSE™ powered by BOOM Tech. Experience how the new physics-informed dynamic tackling system unlocks realistic collisions & new gameplay animations on both sides of the ball.
Frequently asked about Madden NFL 22
- Does Madden NFL 22 run on Steam Deck?
- Madden NFL 22 is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Does Madden NFL 22 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Madden NFL 22 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Madden NFL 22?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Madden NFL 22 are Madden NFL 21, Madden NFL 23, EA SPORTS™ College Football 27.
- Who developed Madden NFL 22?
- Madden NFL 22 was developed by Tiburon and published by Electronic Arts.
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