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A screenshot from Baseball Empire, showing some player names and colored bars representing their stamina.
25
Sep
2026

A Roundup of 2026 Baseball Video Games on Steam

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Baseball Game News
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Pawapuro 2026-2027 teaser art
05
Feb
2026

All the details for the upcoming Pawapuro 2026-2027

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12
Jan
2026

WBSC eBaseball Power Pros says sayonara

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02
Jan
2026

Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 8 Perfect Guide scans

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Power Pros
12
Dec
2025

Baseball Games of 2025: The Year in Review

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05
Dec
2025

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21
Nov
2025

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Pro Yakyuu Virtual Stadium cover art cropped
14
Nov
2025

When EA Sports released a Japan-only baseball game

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Friday Starter
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07
Nov
2025

Hear the Slugfest commentary that MLB wouldn’t allow

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Power Pros KBO '09 key art excerpt
31
Oct
2025

Digging into the Power Pros KBO games

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Game: Pretty Home Run Derby - Re: Return of KUSOGAKI
Platform: Windows PC
Release Year: 2026

Here is some gameplay from both the mouse and gamepad modes of this new goofy home run derby game that I really enjoyed, actually. 

The mouse gameplay is tougher and automatically changes your character to the guy from Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy. 

For searchability, the Japanese title of this game is かなり里予王求 Re: Return of KUSOGAKI.

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Pretty Home Run Derby - Re: Return of KUSOGAKI (PC) - Gameplay
Game: Moero!! Pro Yakyuu
Platform: Nintendo Family Computer
Release Year: 1987

Finally recording this very famous original Japanese version of what was called Bases Loaded in North America. 

The JP version was pretty different: There's a voice synthesis chip in the cart that doesn't emulate well in anything, so this is recorded off of a real Sharp Twin Famicom. If you play this game in any emulator, you won't hear the crowd or umpire sounds. 

This game is also famously buggy, which you'll see just a bit of here, though no bunt home runs in this recording. 

This is the original revision of the game, which includes accurate player names. The names were fictionalized in a later printing of the game. 

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Moero!! Pro Yakyuu (Famicom) - Gameplay
Game: Playball
Platform: Playdate
Release Year: 2025

A baseball game very much copying from Dusty Diamond's All-Star Softball, but released for the niche handheld console, the Playdate. 

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Playball (Playdate) - Gameplay
Game: Indoor Baseball
Platform: Windows PC
Release Year: 2026

A few tries at the first level in Story Mode (pretty savage difficulty!) and then the home run derby/Moonshot Mayhem mode in Indoor Baseball. 

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Indoor Baseball (PC) - Gameplay
Game: Diamond-Die
Platform: Windows PC
Release Year: 2026

A full run of this dice-based roguelike-ish baseball sim. 

Probably a little better than Diceball, which I recorded recently, though a little bewildering. There's a lot of text everywhere and some of it made no sense to me. The UI for selecting which players go on your team at the start was also a bit of a nightmare, but thankfully it automatically chooses the likely best option. 

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Diamond-Die (PC) - Gameplay
Game: Baseball Mogul 2026
Platform: Windows PC
Release Year: 2026

This is Baseball Mogul 26, a GM/manager game from Sports Mogul (Clay Dreslough). I play a game and sim through a quick season of 1998 as the Atlanta Braves.  

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Baseball Mogul 2026 (PC) - Gameplay
Game: Ore Ga Kyuushin Da! Sharp-Eyed Umpire
Platform: Windows PC
Release Year: 2026

This is a voice-controlled umpiring game available on Steam. So I get the mic out and customized the game to allow some commands a little more detailed than just "strike" and "ball," then played a few rounds. 

I forget to ever say it in the video, but "Ore ga kyuushin da" means "I am the umpire." There used to be a series of baseball games called "Ore ga kantoku da" or "I am the manager." 

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Ore Ga Kyuushin Da! Sharp-Eyed Umpire (PC) - Gameplay
Game: BALL BOY Simulator
Platform: Windows PC
Release Year: 2026

This ended up being a full longplay of Ballboy Simulator, which is soooort of one of those recent wave of indie Japanese horror games, but set in a high school baseball team. You are tasked with finding and retrieving the balls lost during practice. If a coach or teammate runs into you, start over.  

Japanese title is 球ひろいSimulator (Ball Retrieval Simulator). 

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BALL BOY Simulator (PC) - Gameplay
Game: Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2026-2027 
Platform: PlayStation 4
Release Year: 2026

This is a full run of the PawaFes (Pawa Festival, PowerFes, whatever) mode in the latest Pawapuro game. As part of PawaTele Station, you have to put together a team and win the tournament against the evil corporate cost cutters. 

00:00:00 Intro
00:10:37 First game
00:28:05 Second game
00:50:14 Third game
01:13:22 Fourth game
01:37:07 Tournament final
01:48:38 Final boss
02:01:56 Ending cutscene
02:07:46 Credits
02:11:03 Character customization

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Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2026-2027 (PS4) - PawaFes Full Playthrough
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