BASEBALL 9

Compact but surprisingly deep, BASEBALL 9 from playus soft squeezes a full baseball management and action game into short sessions. Its cartoonish characters sit on top of serious mechanics, realistic rules and detailed statistics, with the aim of winning the Legend League.

On the field, players can bat, pitch and field, and even run the bases by hand. For those who would rather speed things up, an improved autoplay system can automate individual players, whole innings or entire games, or jump straight to a quick result, and simulated outcomes are based on actual stats. Off the field, the game is a roster builder: recruit players, raise the stats of your choice, equip skills to turn them into specialists and raise their tiers toward hall of fame status. Customisation runs deep, from names, faces and body types to batting and pitching motions, handedness, bats, gloves and glasses. The team itself gets a new name, emblem and uniform, and progress means expanding stadiums and earning promotion through the postseason. It also supports tablets and offers an offline mode.

The game averages 4.6 from 473,824 ratings, with 79% five stars and 5% one star, and has passed 50,000,000+ installs. It is free with ads, and in-app purchases range from $1.99 - $99.99 per item. The last update was on 2026-06-11, it needs Android 6.0 or newer, and it is rated Everyone. We list 33 versions; the latest, 3.9.2, is 273.8 MB.

Baseball fans who enjoy both playing and managing will find a lot to chew on, especially with the flexible automation. The large download and the top-end shop prices are the main things to weigh.