We report a mechanical point-contact spectroscopy study on the single crystalline NbGe$_2$ with a superconducting transition temperature $Trm_c$ = 2.0 - 2.1 K. The differential conductance curves at 0.3 K can be well fitted by a single gap s-wave Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk model and the temperature dependent gap follows a standard Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer behavior, yielding $Delta_0 sim$ 0.32 meV and 2$Delta_0$/$krm_{B}$$Trm_{c}$ = 3.62 in the weak coupling limit. In magnetic field, the superconducting gap at 0.3 K keeps constant up to $H_{c1}sim$150 Oe and gradually decreases until $H_{c2}sim$350 Oe, indicating NbGe$_2$ going through a transition from type-I to type-II (possible type-II/1) superconductor at low temperature.
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