Hakoniwa Base Ball Run Your Own Baseball World

There are no batting or pitching controls here. The results come from your players' ratings, and your job is everything around them: picking the draft class, working the trade market, renegotiating contracts and keeping the books balanced. Bring a player's numbers to the table during Contract Renewal Talks, buy out a deal that isn't working, sign foreign players to fill the gaps. When a star asks to be posted overseas, how you answer is your call. You can run one season or hand the whole thing decades, and the finances can go to auto-management if you would rather live in the roster and the dugout.

Change pitchers, pinch-hit or swap a fielder and compare before and after. There are cameras from broadcast to batter's eyes to the bullpen, and a Classic view of plain text and numbers if that is more your speed. No flashy cutscenes, so a game takes about as long as you want it to.