📱 iOS & Android (Canada)
🎉 Our first Android release is almost here!
🗓️ Planned release: February 3, 2026
🚀 Coming to Android on Google Play (Canada)
We’re excited to share that Baseball Hits 26 is launching on Google Play February 3, 2026!
- Android players will be able to jump into the same fast, authentic baseball experience
- Compete in events, build your roster, and join a club!
🎁 Rewards, Store & Quality of Life
This update introduces several improvements to make rewards easier to find and collect.
- Daily Login Rewards
- You’ll be able to collect rewards each day just for logging in
- Red Dot Notifications
- Visual cues will guide you to uncollected rewards and newly available features
- Improved Reward Collection
- A reminder will prompt you to collect unclaimed rewards when events end
- Personalized Store Offers
- Limited-time store items may appear just for you!
- New Progression Badges
- Earn badges for achieving higher levels and tiers (for your account as a whole)
- ⭐ Quality-of-Life Improvement
- Scrolling through your team will no longer reset to the top when leveling up players (Note – Swapping players will receive the same fix in a future update)
🏟️ Gameplay & Baseball Realism
Making games feel fairer, clearer, and more believable.
⚖️ Matchmaking & Simulation
- Matchmaking will better account for team strength
- ⭐ Simulation outcomes will more closely match expectations
- Strong teams should perform more consistently
- Large rating gaps will matter more
- Losing streak frustration should be reduced
- You’ll be able to SIM playoff games when up or down by 2 runs (previously required a 3-run difference)
🏃 New Baserunning Strategy
- ⭐ A new baserunning strategy option to add more player control during key moments of gameplay
⚾ Realism Improvements
- Runners on second will tag up more reliably on fly balls
👥 Clubs & Social
Several updates to improve club stability and social features.
- Improved club auto-join logic
- Club chat performance and messaging improvements
- Club leadership will transfer to the AGM if a GM deletes their account
- Player search will support name prefixes (for example, “Baseball” → “BaseballHits26”)
- Social media links will be added to the Settings menu – follow us!
🏆 Events & Notifications
- Club leaderboards will load faster
- ⭐ Event Energy Refresh push notifications
- Event UI updates will:
- Better highlight time remaining near event end
- Fix text wrapping issues for large win streaks
🎨 Visual Polish & Feel
This update also includes a variety of visual and feel improvements.
- Stadium beautification
- Updated team color palettes to reduce the overlap teams with light blue uniforms & colours
- Improved animation flow and locomotion
- New dust effect when players stomp home plate
- New Free Agent reveal
- Updated Quit Game and Pause menu UI
🛠️ Bug Fixes
- Duplicate players will always grant a level-up if they’re not tier-capped
- Event bonus points will correctly apply to Player Tier bonuses
- Event Energy will properly reset when a new event begins