Backyard Baseball

this game is the perfect match if yu don't want to much grinding or blood and gore. i find this game very intertaining and hope to see more udates in the future.

Love the idea. Not loving the execution or the censorship. As someone who grew up on these games, I like the art style and the updates. Batting feels different enough from the originals while still being fun. Fielding and baserunning, though, are pretty bad. The censorship is what killed it for me. Try typing any coach name with the word “white” in it — it gets blocked. That was enough for me to refund. It’s especially ridiculous in a game that already leans hard into cartoon racial stereotypes. Apparently some words and colors are just too dangerous for Backyard Baseball in 2026. Fix the gameplay issues and stop with the overzealous name filter and I’d buy it again in a second. Until then I’ll stick to the classics.

This game was a big disappointment. I grew up on Backyard Baseball '01 and was super excited about a reboot. Oh foolish, naïve me. The state is has released in is atrocious, more bug filled than a roach-infested apartment. This apartment is missing all it's furniture, simply a beanbag chair and a TV to make you ask "you live like this?" Not only that, this apartment is not up to code, with asbestos leaking out of the walls. In plain English, the game has many game-breaking bugs that makes me wonder how it was released in this state. This game is missing features and content that was baked into a game 25 years older. This game has AI slop images on its playing cards and AI slop writing in the game - yet the developers have not disclosed this to steam. Scummy. Given the stability of the release I'd wager it was likely AI slop vibe-coded as well. Honestly, what a bummer. I'm glad I got my refund and wasn't blinded by nostalgia.

Been waiting a couple decades for a new Backyard Baseball game and can tell you that it mixes nostalgia & modern gameplay seamlessly. About to capture my first Ultra-Grand Championship of the Universe in years!

Bugs, Bugs, Bugs. Save games don't reload correctly, or break gameplay features (pitching specials, pitcher swaps), players don't do the actions they are supposed to on the field. After a pitch is hit, good luck trying to figure out: Where the ball is going -> Where the ball is "landing" -> What player you are controlling. Most of the time, your players do not run towards a falling ball, and half the time, the game gives you the wrong player to be in control of, so playing defense is a painful joke. Baserunning is not without fault. Running will routinely ignore inputs, so if there's a pop fly, there is no way to send them back to their base, if you do, they will fully advance themselves into a double play. The controls on the '97 were far better. It's expensive, it feels incomplete, I really hope they make it better.

There's a lot of potential for this game, but the bugs and the insane profanity filter is a major killer for the price. Heavily recommend to wait until more of the bugs are addressed and multiplayer is available before dropping $40 on this game, or wait for it to go on sale at some point. (I'd pay at most $20 for what this game currently has, and admittedly, I'm only willing to pay this high because of the nostalgia factor)

I'm glad the dev's seem committed to continuing updates for this game, because the artstyle & overall vibe is there but there are definitely some bugs & issues that I'd wait 'til sale if you're offput by those kinds of things at the price-point, you're not missing anything by not playing it close to launch. Rant about a specific bug I've been having... put in spoiler to spare your eyes if you don't care: [spoiler] My issue has been resolution/aspect ratio related. I run a 2 monitor setup and target my 4k tv in steam bigmode, however I often have to switch between windowed, borderless windowed, and fullscreen and change resolution until it renders correctly, seemingly magically. What I mean is: Sometimes the game will render 4k but the aspect ratio will be messed up in both window modes without being able to manually resize, which looks like the game is a vertical video with the rest of the menus/game chopped off. So I'll move over to fullscreen which will technically be in 4k but stretches everything horizontally so it looks a squinty and weird, like if you were in photoshop and stretched an image. After this I'll either have to experiment with lower resolutions and see which one wants to cooperate and settle for chunky visuals, or sometimes I'll flip back to the 4k resolution and it'll work like nothing happened. It's a chaotically inconsistently consistent problem I seem to run into, and don't know if it's me, all I know is I've never encountered this problem in my extensive gaming library. [/spoiler] When playing the game however I've been satisfied with all the added content as well as the core gameplay which is quite faithful to the originals, particularly enjoy that their is now a day/night selection, other settings that help tailor the game to your play-style, and there is unlockable characters/content. There's not much else to say, but I'm also not that sweaty of a sports gamer, I didn't really have high expectations for this game considering the original is a kids game, and I'd say this game could still easily be played by children, but some of original skewmorphic design has been swapped out for modern visual ques, which helps the remaster image, but also made some gameplay mechanics less obvious that I had to brush up on (I skipped the tutorial thinking I knew this game like the back of Pablo Sanchez's backwards baseball cap). With time spent on fixes, and online multiplayer eventually being a feature this will definitely be a fresh way to revisit the Backyard Baseball franchise, and I still recommend this if you're already kind of bought in to the idea of a backyard baseball with a fresh coat of paint, but I don't recommend if you're expecting a transformative experience.