
Game Pulse is a tabletop-inspired baseball strategy sim based on Payoff Pitch—manage lineups, make critical decisions, and play or simulate full seasons with rich stats and immersive gameplay.
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Game Pulse is the digital version of the Payoff Pitch tabletop baseball game, bringing its strategy, tension, and realism to life.
Whether you want to manage every pitch, simulate full games, or play through an entire season, every decision matters. Build your lineup, set your rotation, manage your bullpen, and guide your team through the highs and lows of baseball.
Game Pulse comes packed with content from the moment you launch it:
The complete 2025 MLB Season Set - every team, every player, with authentic stats and ratings
The Legends & Busts 01 Card Set - iconic players and unforgettable flops from baseball history
A Welcome Card Set - select teams from across eras to help you start playing right away
That’s three card sets included with your purchase, giving you dozens of teams and hundreds of players ready to play out of the box.
Play pitch by pitch or simulate games at your own pace. Make key decisions on substitutions, bullpen usage, lineup construction, and matchup strategy as you manage your team through a full season.
Track player and team performance across your season with detailed statistical systems. Analyze trends, compare results, and follow the story of your league as it develops.
Inspired by the Payoff Pitch tabletop experience, Game Pulse captures the tension, unpredictability, and strategy of card-and-dice baseball, enhanced with a smooth digital interface.
Relive historical seasons, compare your results against real-world outcomes, or create your own baseball stories. Your decisions can reshape history one game at a time.
Game Pulse is designed to support an ever-growing library of historical season card sets. Relive specific years, build dynasties across decades, or explore the full history of the sport with complete team and player data.
Whether you are a longtime tabletop player or new to baseball simulations, Game Pulse offers a rewarding blend of accessibility, depth, and replayability.
Manage lineups, rotations, bullpens, substitutions, and in-game decisions
Play pitch by pitch or simulate full games and complete seasons
Experience gameplay inspired by the Payoff Pitch tabletop system
Track detailed player and team statistics throughout your season
Make strategic bullpen calls, substitutions, and matchup-based choices
Replay historical seasons or create your own baseball narratives
Compare your results against real-world outcomes
Enjoy a clean, modern interface built for quick play and deep management
Start playing immediately with three included card sets
Dual-mode play: Use Game Pulse as a full digital baseball simulation or as a companion for tabletop baseball
Manual stat tracking: Enter results from physical card-and-dice games and track your season digitally
Flexible season play: Manage games yourself, simulate results, or record tabletop outcomes
Built for both digital and physical play: Perfect for simming seasons or playing every pitch with real cards
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Languages: English
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I tried to hold off on a review hoping for various updates to fix the bad state of the game. However still no updates to the game and my $100 spent is currently wasted. I'm guessing the game will be great in a year but currently unplayable if you are doing more than a 1 off. I plan to change this review asa the game is in a better place. It should never have been released in this state.
Board game recreation with active support from the developer. If you've ever enjoyed Strat or APBA, you should give this a try.
Excellent! Very well made and would highly recommend.
I like being able to go back in time with players/teams I grew up with. I don't like when I de-activate a player they do not stay deactivated. Same when I activate a player. Also do not like the inability to trade a player to another team.
In a game I was playing, the game engine skipped from the #8 spot in the lineup to the #2 spot, skipping the #9 & #1 spots in the lineup. This happened twice in a row for these batters. Until this is fixed, there is no way to trust any results, (screen shots available)
I am having an unreasonable amount of fun with this game. i've played D&C baseball games since I was eight years old and this one is really fun. Scratches the dice-and-card itch very well, with some different mechanics from the APBA and Strat games I grew up with. I'm at the stage of my life where I play replays simply for fun and there are a lot of ways to do that with this game. I wish there was a guide included to help new players understand how the system works but unlike most algorithm based games like OOTP, this one handles player baserunning and bunting quite well. I've played, and continue to play, just about every major game of this sort and I think this one more than holds its own.
This is a really great game with amazing support by the developer! A great digital Payoff Pitch card and dice baseball simulation game on it's own, it also contains a customizable board game companion for use with card and dice baseball simulations like Payoff Pitch Baseball, Strat-O-Matic Baseball, APBA, Inside Pitch, Statis Pro, etc. Lots of innovative features like jumping into the middle of a historic season and finishing it from that launch point, controlling one team and merging the results from the game with what happened in history, replaying the post season without major setup by the user, and analyzing dice trends that give you information as to why certain players may be overperforming or underperforming. Lots of good stuff!
I look forward to the day when this game could get a positive review, but right now the user interface is too clunky and the AI is too buggy and out of whack (and I have the latest version). To wit, I've stopped playing the game. (And I would get a refund if I could because the game is too expensive in its clunky and buggy condition.)
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