Games like Backyard Baseball
If Backyard Baseball is your kind of game, the closest matches are Yerr Out, Beastly Soccer and Blobkey — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
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Players who liked Backyard Baseball also play
Steam players who put hours into Backyard Baseball also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Yerr Out
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Top pick for Backyard Baseball fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with Backyard Baseball.
🦅 wacky & competitive baseball game! 🦌 Unlock over 100+ animals to assemble your team, each with different attributes 🐂
Beastly Soccer
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Second-strongest match for Backyard Baseball fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with Backyard Baseball.
Cute animals, wild soccer chaos! Lead Pollito, Xiang Xiang, and 10 Beastly captains through explosive arcade matches with super-shots, hazards, and power‑ups. Play all 48 World Cup teams across six crazy stadiums in fast, action-packed multiplayer fun.
Blobkey
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Third-strongest match for Backyard Baseball fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with Backyard Baseball.
Fast, chaotic neon blob hockey. Dash, body-check, and goo-splatter your rivals across five glowing arenas. Play solo vs CPU, up to 6-player couch mayhem, or online with friends
Mini Soccer
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Ranked #4 for Backyard Baseball fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with Backyard Baseball.
Fast, friendly arcade soccer for all ages. Take penalties, win the 8-team cup, or play 1v1 and 2v2 online and on the couch. Customize your player, level up, and score big. Easy to pick up, hard to put down.
Rabbit Claw Party
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Ranked #5 for Backyard Baseball fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Backyard Baseball.
Catch lively rabbits with a claw in a cute scoring stage game. Read each rabbit’s movement, clear levels, complete tasks, collect stickers, decorate your photo wall, fill the rabbit catalog, and enjoy local two-player co-op or competition.
Pimbolas
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Ranked #6 for Backyard Baseball fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with Backyard Baseball.
Chaotic foosball matches for up to 4 players! Use crazy power-ups, battle through unique arenas and opponents, and turn every friendly match into a chaotic showdown with friends.
Embale - Wooden Kart Race
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Ranked #7 for Backyard Baseball fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with Backyard Baseball.
Physics-based, first-person downhill racing. Drift a wooden cart through Quito’s steep, narrow streets, squeeze past rivals, and survive the run.
Overserved: Food Fighters!
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Ranked #8 for Backyard Baseball fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with Backyard Baseball.
Overserved: Food Fighters is a fast-paced multiplayer party brawler for 1–8 players. Pick an adorable critter, dash through chaotic arenas, and hurl food-themed projectiles at your rivals in frantic matches with full cross-play across every platform.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Backyard Baseball at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~88% under Backyard Baseball on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Backyard Baseball.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~63% under Backyard Baseball on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Backyard Baseball.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Phasmophobia
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Priced ~50% under Backyard Baseball on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Backyard Baseball.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~75% under Backyard Baseball on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Backyard Baseball.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~75% under Backyard Baseball on Steam right now. Shares Action with Backyard Baseball.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Schedule I
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Priced ~50% under Backyard Baseball on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Backyard Baseball.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~63% under Backyard Baseball on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Backyard Baseball.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Backyard Baseball.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Backyard Baseball.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backyard Baseball.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Backyard Baseball.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Backyard Baseball.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Backyard Baseball.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Backyard Baseball.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Mega Cat Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Mega Cat Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit
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Another title from Mega Cat Studios, the studio behind Backyard Baseball. Shares Action and Indie with Backyard Baseball.
Survive five nights of terror in this chilling adventure game. Travel between time periods to solve puzzles, gather clues, and outrun the threat relentlessly pursuing you. Move swiftly and stay hidden, and you may just survive. But be careful—it's not just your own life that’s on the line this time.
Backyard Baseball '97
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Another title from Mega Cat Studios, the studio behind Backyard Baseball. Shares Sports and Casual with Backyard 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!
Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood
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Another title from Mega Cat Studios, the studio behind Backyard Baseball. Shares Action and Indie with Backyard Baseball.
Slash and survive a typical workday as Dracula's overworked and underappreciated servant! You'll have a bloody good time as you rampage through New Orleans to find fresh victims for your narcissistic boss.
WrestleQuest
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Another title from Mega Cat Studios, the studio behind Backyard Baseball. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backyard Baseball.
TAG TEAM WITH DESTINY! Pro wrestling and RPG fantasy collide in the ultimate pixel powered adventure. “Macho Man” Randy Savage and tons of other icons offer guidance as you powerbomb your way to glory beyond the ring. This hero’s journey ain’t just an epic quest, it’s WRESTLEQUEST!
Backyard Baseball '01
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Another title from Mega Cat Studios, the studio behind Backyard Baseball. Shares Sports and Casual with Backyard Baseball.
Backyard Baseball 2001 is the second Backyard Baseball game, and the fourth overall game, in the Backyard Sports franchise. Build your roster from iconic Backyard athletes and legendary MLB players. Strike out opponents, hit homers, and earn hilarious Power-ups. Play ball!
Backyard Soccer '98
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Another title from Mega Cat Studios, the studio behind Backyard Baseball. Shares Sports and Casual with Backyard Baseball.
Return to the soccer field with your favorite Backyard athletes! The original Backyard Soccer 1998 is back and now enhanced to run on Steam. Build your roster from among the iconic Backyard Kids. Kick, pass, and score in this classic game that made soccer fun for everyone!
Backyard Football '99
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Another title from Mega Cat Studios, the studio behind Backyard Baseball. Shares Sports and Casual with Backyard Baseball.
Backyard Football 1999 is back and now enhanced to run on modern systems. Whether you're picking Jerry Rice or Barry Sanders for your dream team, scoring TDs with Pablo Sanchez, or enjoying the witty banter between Sunny Day and Chuck Downfield, simple controls let anyone pick up and play football!
Angry Video Game Nerd 8-bit
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Another title from Mega Cat Studios, the studio behind Backyard Baseball. Shares Action and Adventure with Backyard Baseball.
The Angry Video Game Nerd is back in 8-bits! Battle through frantic platforming levels, defeat classic AVGN bosses, and save all of gaming, or test your skills in Endless Challenge mode!
Frequently asked about Backyard Baseball
- How much does Backyard Baseball cost?
- Backyard Baseball is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Backyard Baseball have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Backyard Baseball supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Backyard Baseball?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Backyard Baseball are Yerr Out, Beastly Soccer, Blobkey.
- Who developed Backyard Baseball?
- Backyard Baseball was developed by Mega Cat Studios and published by Playground Productions.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Backyard Baseball.
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