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Backyard Football '99 cover art

Backyard Football '99

Mega Cat Studios · Playground Productions · 2025-09-08

Steam

CasualSports

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 09, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 02, 2025 (iOS), Mar 17, 2025 (Android)

Backyard Football 1999 is back and now enhanced to run on modern systems. Whether you're picking Jerry Rice or Barry Sanders for your dream team, scoring TDs with Pablo Sanchez, or enjoying the witty banter between Sunny Day and Chuck Downfield, simple controls let anyone pick up and play football!

95%
positive of 173 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
$9.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 15 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 7% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (51 reviews).
  • · Top 44% of 10,969 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.5k–7.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 173 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.49 at Steam (2026-03-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 4 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
484820252026Week of 2025-09-09: 48 positiveWeek of 2025-09-09: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-16: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-09-23: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-30: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-07: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-14: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-21: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-10-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-04: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-11: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-12-02: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-09: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-16: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-23: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-30: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-06: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-13: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-20: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-10: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-17: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-24: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-31: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-19: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-16: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-18: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$7.492025-09-092026-07-092025-09-09 — best price $8.992025-09-15 — best price $9.992025-12-08 — best price $7.992025-12-15 — best price $9.992025-12-18 — best price $7.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $7.492026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-06-25 — best price $7.492026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

23
achievements tracked
99.8%
earned "Not Just a Collector"
9.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

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Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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