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Backyard Baseball '01

Mega Cat Studios · Playground Productions · 2025-07-08

Steam

CasualSports

Franchise: MLB · Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 08, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 05, 2025 (Android), Jul 08, 2025 (iOS)

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!

93%
positive of 674 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 69 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~9/week).
  • · Review velocity down 39% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 20% of 13,282 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 13k–30k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 674 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
10610620252026Week of 2025-07-08: 106 positiveWeek of 2025-07-08: 21 negativeWeek of 2025-07-15: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-07-15: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-22: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-07-22: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-29: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-07-29: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-05: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-08-12: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-08-12: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-19: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-08-19: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-26: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-09-02: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-09-09: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-16: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-23: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-30: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-07: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-10-14: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-10-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-21: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-28: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-04: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-11-11: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-18: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-02: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-09: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-16: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-06: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-13: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-20: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-01-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-27: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-27: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-03: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-02-10: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-24: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-03: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-10: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-17: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-24: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-31: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-31: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-07: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-04-14: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-04-21: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-21: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-28: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-05-05: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-05-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-12: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-19: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-05-26: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-09: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-06-16: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-30: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-14: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-07-21: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-04: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-08-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-11: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-08-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-18: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-25: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-09-08: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-09-08: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$4.992025-07-082026-07-092025-07-08 — best price $8.992025-07-15 — best price $9.992025-08-15 — best price $7.492025-08-29 — best price $9.992025-09-29 — best price $7.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992025-10-10 — best price $7.492025-10-13 — best price $9.992025-12-08 — best price $7.992025-12-15 — best price $9.992025-12-18 — best price $7.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-01-20 — best price $7.492026-01-30 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $7.492026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-06-25 — best price $4.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
100%
earned "Not Just a Collector"
11.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4343%24

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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