Games like Hakoniwa Base Ball
by Alybe Aria
A front-office baseball management sim modeled on Japan's pro baseball (NPB) — no action. Run the draft, free agency, trades, contracts, scouting and stadium finances; simulate a season instantly or watch it pitch by pitch. Up to 30 teams, 6 leagues, all editable via CSV.
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Out of the Park Baseball 25
Mar 15 · Out of the Park Developments
Both: Sports · Sandbox · Baseball
Out of the Park Baseball 25 marks a milestone - 25 years of sports gaming excellence! Officially licensed by MLB, the MLB Players Inc. and KBO, this year's Anniversary Edition puts you in charge of your favorite baseball franchise. Your team, your legacy, your dynasty. Play what the pros play!
SimulationSportsStrategySandboxStrategy RPGCard BattlerBaseballImmersive Sim2D3D👍 994
$9.99Backyard Baseball '97
Oct 10 · Mega Cat Studios
Both: Sports · Baseball
Rediscover the joy of the original Backyard Baseball 1997, now updated for modern systems! Build your roster from among the iconic Backyard Kids, aim for those home runs, and various game modes. Relive the magic of this classic baseball game!
SportsCasualBaseballCuteArcadePixel Graphics1990'sCartoonRetroColorful👍 2,238
$24.99Pro Basketball Manager 2025
Nov 18 · Umix Studios
Both: Sports · Trading
Suit up and become the manager of a basketball team. You’ll have all the managerial tools you’ve come to expect in a manager game, scouting, facilities, training and more. Will you put emphasis on coaching or player development? Success is only the result of your decisions both on and off the court.
SportsStrategyImmersive SimBasketballManagementSimulationTrading3D2DText-Based👍 169
$69.99NBA 2K25
Sep 3 · Visual Concepts
Both: Sports · Character Customization
Command every court with authenticity and realism Powered by ProPLAY™, giving you ultimate control over how you play in NBA 2K25. Define your legacy in MyCAREER, MyTEAM, MyNBA, and The W.
SportsBasketballSimulationeSports3DControllerManagementPvPCharacter CustomizationTeam-Based👍 30,975
$69.99NBA 2K26
Sep 4 · Visual Concepts
Both: Sports · Character Customization
Bragging rights are on the line in MyCAREER, MyTEAM, MyNBA, The W, and Play Now. Showcase your bag of moves with hyper realism, Powered by ProPLAY™, and challenge your friends, or rivals, in NBA 2K26’s competitive modes—and leave no doubt that you wear the crown.
SportsBasketballSimulationMultiplayer3DeSportsControllerSingleplayerCharacter CustomizationManagement👍 25,678
$11.99Football Agent
Aug 25 · ATERO GAMES
Both: Sports
You're not the manager, you're the agent. Scout hidden gems across 47,500 players, win them over face to face, build their careers, and sell them for millions. A deep football agency career sim where every contract has your name on it.
Football (Soccer)SportsSimulationImmersive SimStrategyManagementShop KeeperEconomyIndieTactical👍 114
Football Manager 2024
Nov 6 · Sports Interactive
Both: Sports
Build a world-class team ready to dominate your rivals in football’s most prestigious competitions. Progress never stops when you’re pursuing footballing greatness.
SimulationSportsManagementFootball (Soccer)StrategyMultiplayerEconomyReal Time TacticseSportsSingleplayer👍 17,111
-55%$26.99PGA TOUR 2K25
Feb 27 · HB Studios
Both: Sports · Character Customization
Take your best shot at glory in PGA TOUR 2K25! In a 2K-first, compete in three prestigious major tournaments. Personalize your game with expanded MyCAREER, MyPLAYER and Course Designer options. Challenge friends across ranked, casual, and cross-platform multiplayer.
SportsGolfSimulationRealisticCharacter CustomizationMultiplayerThird PersonFamily FriendlySingleplayerCo-op👍 3,800
$24.99Beastieball
Nov 12 · Wishes Ultd.
Both: Sports · Character Customization
A turn-based volleyball RPG where you coach a sports team of Beasties! Your Beasties' relationships grow and change, unlocking new abilities and combo plays!
Early AccessCreature CollectorSportsTurn-Based TacticsExplorationPvPRPGeSportsJRPGCharacter Customization👍 1,484
$14.99Pickleball
Mar 15 · Viniot Studios
Both: Sports · Baseball
Experience cutting dinks, outrageous rallies and pickup games with AI Bots and friends. State-of-the-art configurable custom physics, makes VR Pickleball feel like the real thing. Use your real-life forehand, backhand, volleys and dinks - analyze shots in Instant Replay.
SportsCricketSimulationPhysicsBaseballeSportsVRRealisticZombiesSingleplayer
$29.99Pro Basketball Manager 2026
Nov 17 · Umix Studios
Both: Sports
Lead your club to greatness in Pro Basketball Manager 2026! The Basketball Champions League arrives with 53 licensed teams, putting you in charge of every decision as you aim to dominate both domestic and continental basketball.
SportsSimulationStrategyBasketballManagementImmersive SimSingleplayerText-Based2D3D👍 121
$59.99WWE 2K25
Mar 13 · Visual Concepts
Both: Sports · Character Customization · Sandbox
Celebrate The Bloodline in Showcase. Compete online in MyGM. Expanded gameplay includes intergender wrestling, chain wrestling, barricade diving, the return of Promos + much more!
SimulationSportsWrestlingCharacter CustomizationRealisticCo-opSandboxPvP3D FighterController👍 4,108
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$19.99Pro Basketball Manager 2024
Nov 21 · Umix Studios
Both: Sports
Welcome to Pro Basketball Manager 2024 - the best basketball management experience, offering unparalleled depth and authenticity across 175 elite basketball competitions. Show the world you're the ultimate basketball manager!
SportsSimulationBasketballManagementStrategy2DIndie3DSingleplayer👍 155
-20%$19.99Simhaus: Football
7 days ago · Simhaus
Both: Sports
Rise from high school assistant to the top of the sport in one fully-simulated, connected football universe — from high school to college to the pros. Manage a roster, call every play, and watch it play out in a realism-based broadcast-style game engine.
SportsFootball (American)ManagementStrategySimulationTacticalModdableSingleplayerEarly Access
$39.99WE ARE FOOTBALL 2024
Mar 4 · Winning Streak Games GmbH
Both: Sports
Welcome to WE ARE FOOTBALL 2024! Dive into the world of football like never before. Choose an existing club or start your own. Manage either men or women, lead your club to new heights, and become the next manager legend!
Football (Soccer)SportsSimulationManagement3DEconomyFamily FriendlyStrategyPvPLevel Editor👍 752
$4.99Pro Soccer Online
Dec 5 · Skywall Studios LLC
Both: Sports · Character Customization
Pro Soccer Online is a 1st/3rd person, highly skill based, online multiplayer soccer game. It offers a sports game experience unlike any other with smooth, physics based, input driven gameplay that is competitive and rewarding with no pay to win mechanics.
SportsFootball (Soccer)PvPCompetitiveeSportsCharacter Customization3DFirst-PersonThird PersonTeam-Based👍 23,248
$11.99gogh: Focus with Your Avatar
Apr 30 · ambr
Both: Character Customization · Sandbox
A cozy multiplayer co-working sandbox with character customization, room building, and productivity tools. Focus, study, work, and relax together with friends and players around the world.
Character CustomizationCuteSandboxUtilitiesMultiplayerRelaxingCozy3DAnimeTime Management👍 4,817
-15%$6.79SPORTAL
Jun 11 · Sleepwalking Potatoes
Both: Sports · Baseball
Sport meets slaughter in this roguelite arena FPS. Use lethal sports equipment to crush B-movie monsters. Combine upgrades, perfect your build, perfect your skills, and face the ultimate evil bosses. Play ball... or die trying.
SportsAction RoguelikeArena ShooterFPSRogueliteBaseballBowlingFootball (American)GolfHockey
$25.99Big Ambitions
Aug 28 · Hovgaard Games
Both: Sandbox · Resource Management
Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
ManagementEconomySimulationCapitalismLife SimSandboxSingleplayerResource ManagementTime ManagementInventory Management👍 14,060
$14.99Territory: Farming and Warfare
Feb 4 · Wit Studio
Both: Sandbox · Resource Management
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
SingleplayerSimulationBase BuildingCity BuilderStrategySandboxAutomationPixel GraphicsResource ManagementBuilding👍 738
$19.99Esports Godfather
May 23 · Asteroid Game Studio
Both: Character Customization
E-sports Godfather is a Deck-building game simulating MOBA e-sports. You will play a role as team coach and build your team. You need to train players and make strategies in various game versions, beat other teams and finally, take the Champion of the World. Be nobody, or lead your team to dominate!
ManagementStrategyCard BattlereSportsSimulationTurn-Based TacticsCard GameIndieCharacter CustomizationDeckbuilding👍 4,320
EA SPORTS FC™ 24
Sep 28 · EA Canada, EA Romania
Both: Sports
EA SPORTS FC™ 24 welcomes you to The World’s Game: the most true-to-football experience ever with HyperMotionV, PlayStyles optimised by Opta, and an enhanced Frostbite™ Engine.
Football (Soccer)SportsControllerMultiplayerPvPeSportsCompetitivePvELocal Multiplayer3D👍 94,360
EA SPORTS™ Madden NFL 25
Aug 15 · Tiburon
Both: Sports
Hit like you mean it with FieldSENSE™ powered by BOOM Tech. Experience how the new physics-informed dynamic tackling system unlocks realistic collisions & new gameplay animations on both sides of the ball.
SimulationStrategyFootball (American)SportsCompetitiveMultiplayerLGBTQ+👍 4,485
$14.99Football Dynasty Manager
Aug 6 · Nekolitch Games
Both: Sports
A football management sim that does not cut corners. Recruiting, NIL, the portal, contracts and the cap, the draft, and an engine you can sim or call play by play. Eight connected leagues from high school to the pros, four rules eras back to 1950, and an editor for all of it
SportsStrategyFootball (American)ManagementSingleplayerTacticalIndieSimulation
-34%$9.89Hardwood Basketball Manager
Apr 27 · Mythic Flux Foundry
Both: Sports
Run a basketball club across seven connected leagues, from a college program to a pro front office to a club in Spain. Draw up your own plays and zone defenses, then take them online against another coach. Step away and the league keeps moving without you.
SportsSimulationStrategyBasketballManagementMultiplayerSingleplayer
$24.99Chinese Frontiers
Jun 19 · SolidGames
Both: Sandbox · Resource Management
Become a master builder in medieval China. Construct iconic landmarks brick by brick in first person, while managing villagers, production chains, and a growing settlement at your own pace.
BuildingCraftingMedievalBase BuildingCity BuilderSingleplayerFirst-PersonSandboxSimulationResource Management👍 514
-40%$7.19Sporting Goods Shop
10 days ago · Business Tycoon
Both: Sports · Sandbox
Run your sporting goods shop. Sign contracts with leading brands, order products, hire workers, expand your store, and run little contests to entertain your customers. Play with friends or go solo, and enjoy the growth of your shop.
Life SimShop KeeperSimulationSportsOnline Co-OpDesign & IllustrationCasualMultiplayerSandboxEconomy
$6.99THE REF - Football Referee Simulator
Aug 6 · HustleGrow AB
Both: Sports · Character Customization
The football game where you're not the star - you're the law. Officiate full matches: whistle fouls, wave off divers, run VAR, survive the press. In 1-4 player online co-op your friends run the lines - and every blown call has a name on it.
SimulationSportsArcadeImmersive Sim3DFirst-PersonThird PersonComedyFootball (Soccer)Character Customization
FreePitchside Empire
Sep 5 · Bombastik Studio
Both: Sports
Start with one five-a-side pitch. Answer the phone, haggle over the price, fill the hours. Reinvest: more pitches, more land, more staff. Grow enough and the neighbourhood league plays its season on your grass.
Sports2D PlatformerSimulationShop KeeperFootball (Soccer)3DSingleplayerStrategyFree to PlayIndie
-40%$17.99Coral Island
Nov 14 · Stairway Games
Both: Character Customization
Coral Island is a vibrant, laid-back farm sim reimagined with multiplayer! Experience enchanting island life at your own pace: farm with friends, nurture animals, build relationships, hang out with a diverse cast of characters, and dive into the magical Merfolk Kingdom.
Farming SimLife SimDating SimRelaxingSimulationAgricultureRPGCharacter CustomizationCraftingSingleplayer👍 21,839
-20%$31.99inZOI
Mar 27 · inZOI Studio
Both: Character Customization · Sandbox
"Every life becomes a story" Create your unique story by controlling and observing the lives of 'Zois'. Customize characters and build houses using inZOI's easy-to-use tools to live the life of your dreams and experience the different emotions of life created by its deep and detailed simulation.
Life SimCharacter CustomizationSimulationRealisticSingleplayerBuildingFamily FriendlyRomanceSandboxSexual Content👍 30,047
-15%$16.99TCG Card Shop Simulator
7 days ago · OPNeon Games
Both: Trading
Open your own local game store. Stock shelves with the latest booster packs, or crack them and collect the cards for yourself. Set your own prices, hire staff, host events, and expand your card shop.
SimulationManagementEconomySingleplayerCollectathonTrading Card GameCapitalismCard GameShop KeeperTrading👍 47,485
$39.99Pro Cycling Manager 2024
Jun 6 · Cyanide Studio
Both: Sports
Become a sports director, take part in the world's top cycling races and lead your riders to victory. Set race objectives, negotiate contracts, find new sponsors and build your team season after season.
SportsCycling3DManagementRealisticSingleplayerSimulationAdventureExplorationBikes👍 340
$14.99Mech Engineer
May 21 · KiberKreker
Both: Character Customization · Resource Management
A dark sci-fi mech assembling manager with semi-auto battles against mutating, alien bio-weapon.
ManagementMechsCharacter CustomizationResource ManagementDungeon CrawlerSimulationStrategyPixel GraphicsIndieBuilding👍 929
-30%$34.99Cities: Skylines II
Oct 24 · Iceflake Studios, Colossal Order
Both: Sandbox
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
City BuilderSimulationBuildingSandboxManagementSingleplayerEconomyStrategyRealisticModdable👍 64,269
