# Astonishing Baseball 20 — user reviews > 42 indexed App Store user reviews of Astonishing Baseball 20 by Zero One SAS, rated 4.60/5 from 201 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/astonishing-baseball-20/id1523184922/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/astonishing-baseball-20/id1523184922.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 159 · 4★ 23 · 3★ 7 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 9 ## What do users think of Astonishing Baseball 20? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Addictive gameplay - 👍 Excellent for newcomers - 👍 Well-laid out interface - 👍 Easy to understand buttons - 👍 Free to play - 👍 Hours of fun - 👍 Realistic simulation - 👍 Enjoyable for hours - 👍 Great managerial game - 👍 Very addictive - 👍 Realistic without ads - 👍 Good statistical game - 👍 Intriguing game - 👍 Prodigy mode - 👍 Wonderful manager game - 👍 Super game, well put together - 👍 Great simulation game - 👍 Awesome game - 👍 Absolutely astounding game **Cons** - 🐛 No restore progress - 💸 Forced upgrades - 💸 High salary demands - 💸 Cap space goes quickly - 💸 Unrealistic rookie salaries - 💸 Difficult to retain players - 💸 Hard to win championship - 💸 Money management issues - 💸 No money for extensions - 💸 Player contracts ridiculous - 👎 Terrible UI - 👎 Unbalanced game - 👎 Training doesn't help - 👎 Can't win - 👎 Impossible to rebuild - 👎 Player ratings opaque - 👎 Little correlation between training and skill - 👎 Rosters a hot mess - 👎 No fatigue or injuries - 👎 Draft and scouting oddities - 👎 Odd storylines - 👎 No way to understand performance impact - 👎 Game play atrocious - 👎 Ranking system pathetic - 👎 Negotiations laughable - 👎 Developers do not care - 👎 League leaders cluttered - 👎 No qualifying at bats - 👎 No visibility into player progression - 👎 Stats are messed up - 👎 Almost all extra base hits are home runs - 👎 Low number of doubles - 👎 Substitutions don't make sense - 👎 Unplayable without numerical ratings **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashing constantly - Game crashed, team disappeared - Save data bugged - Newest update deleted work - Lost previous seasons - Unable to see field button on iPhone 12 - Game is outdated with rosters **Most requested features** - Restore progress option - Way to turn off salary cap - Use extra batters as pinch hitters - Change defense menu accessibility - Money allocation menu - Banking system for loans - Trade draft picks - Other teams approach for trades - Free agents approach for trades - Difficulty settings - More in-game decisions - Restructured playoffs - More reasonable salaries - Training points have more meaning - Playoff games less random - Roster layout improvements - Filter by positions - Easier to switch positions - Numerical player ratings - Minor league stats - Year-by-year stats - More detailed stats - Sub hitters in-game - Better visibility into ratings and stats - Qualifying number of at bats for league leaders - View player ratings on 80 point scale - Allow substitutions of entire lineups - Woman leagues? - Real players or randoms? - Prodigy mode without time limit - MLB rights for actual names - Make trading easier/harder ## Newest reviews (13 of 42) ### 4/5 — Hard to win *2023-06-27, version 1.552* It is very hard to win a championship ### 4/5 — Great Game, but Money Fix? *2021-05-21* I love this game. I recently was playing other games similar to this one and stumbled upon it. My only gripe with the game is how quickly your cap space goes. Guys will come out of the draft and demand $20 million. That seems quite drastic and because of that it is difficult to retain other players. I think this should be fixed and become more realistic as no rookie should ask for that much money. Despite that a great game and I can play it for hours! ### 4/5 — Good *2021-03-02, version 1.3* Good game but there should be a way to turn off salary cap ### 4/5 — Money in Managerial games. *2021-02-17* I love this game, it’s got to be one of the best baseball managerial games on the App Store. Although I do believe a major issue with the game is your ability to handle and use money. We get no money for normal extension contracts. The max I’ve had was 55 million and that got me as far as saving 3-5 of my amazing ball players and losing 6. That’s when I quit that save and started another one to see if the same thing would happen. Yeh again it did I lost a good amount of players and saved very few. I wish we could have a menu on its own for money allocation each season. With a slider and pie chart of where the money is being directed to. I also believe there should be a banking system to take loans from. Other than my money issue the game is great and if you can get past that then you’ll have tons of fun. 4 stars ### 4/5 — Get rights *2021-02-02* It’s a great game but get rights to the mlb so you can have actual names, it would be better that way. Also make there be difficulties so that trading can be easier and or harder ### 4/5 — When are I you releasing the new one *2021-01-29, version 1.3* It was a really good game but it is out dated with the rosters so I would just like to know when it is coming to I can stop looking at the App Store just to see ### 4/5 — Awesome *2021-01-04, version 1.3* Fun statistical game all around. One thing that would improve this game is the ability to trade draft picks in trades ### 4/5 — Fun game. *2020-12-22* Over all interesting game. Enjoyed most of it. Interesting drafting and international prospect management. One thing that I have an issue with is I am not able to see the field button when I manage my lineup to check where they are on the field. It says the top bar of the screen when you are in your lineup management, but I am unable to see it on my iPhone 12. ### 5/5 — Woman leagues? *2020-12-15, version 1.3* Are the real players or randoms? ### 4/5 — Just some changes *2020-12-09, version 1.3* Some changes I’d like to see, better roster lay out, ability to filter by positions and easyier to switch positions would be nice. ### 5/5 — Why it’s good *2020-11-27, version 1.3* Watch blackish at 7 pm tonight ### 5/5 — Good but got bugged *2020-11-15* I love this game. Have been playing a bunch for the last 2 weeks and it has been great. Unfortunately, I was playing and the game crashed and my team ,which I had a 20 year long career in this game, disappear and when I log in it shows like a base interface saying {text} and stuff like that. Very disappointed. If there is a way to fix that the game gets 10 stars! ### 5/5 — lil Tip *2020-11-14, version 1.3* Would be better if we can sub hitters when in the game ! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Worst UI *2021-02-16, version 1.3* Good game with an absolutely terrible UI. Top left and right buttons shouldn’t exist. ### 1/5 — Don’t bother *2020-11-11* The newest update has deleted all the work already put in, losing my previous 8 seasons played, the roster I was building. I emailed support and received nothing back. The game play is atrocious. The ranking system is pathetic. The contracts are ridiculous. The negotiations of some players is laughable. This is not what a true baseball fan is looking for. This doesn’t if work to pass the time, it just gets more frustrating the more you play, hoping it will get better at some point. Look for something else. The developers do not care and it shows. ### 2/5 — Can’t win *2020-12-22* Unless I’m drastically off course I can’t find a way to succeed in the game. Trying to rebuild but being forced to sign number 1 picks at 20M a year makes it impossible to get any type of minor league roster built up. Been playing for a few weeks (playing 5-6 seasons a day) and just can’t win. ### 2/5 — Bad *2020-10-02, version 1.11* You Need to have an update ### 3/5 — Crashing constantly lately *2021-04-18* Love this game I’ve played about 50 years of simulation but something has broken it lately because it keeps crashing when I try to simulator game I am on the most recent Apple hardware so I don’t think it’s that and the game isn’t particularly graphically intensive ### 3/5 — No win *2020-12-28* Loved the game when I first started playing it. I then found that the game is unbalanced. My team was number one over all but when it came to the playoffs, instead of facing the lowest seeded team, I was pitted against the second best team. When my team came in last place and I brought them up to first place, I didn’t win coach of the year. It was given to a coach who’s team finished third. And training your players doesn’t help at all. So many other little things that made me continuously playing changed my mind. ### 3/5 — Created by people who know soccer better than baseball *2020-12-05* Where to start...it’s an intriguing game, but as an American baseball fan, it leaves a lot to be desired. The player rating system is pretty much opaque. You can’t see progression or regression other than arrows for four skills per type of player (batter or pitcher), so actual skill values would be helpful; and the star rating system makes nary a lick of sense, as there seems to be very little correlation between training and actual skill improvement. The rosters? A hot mess. You can have 10 starters, 12 relievers, and lineup of all first basemen. You don’t have to sub in or out, as no one gets tired and injuries don’t occur unless you turn on “light injuries” in the settings. You can send anyone to and from the minors whenever you’d like (unless they’re your superstar), and the win/loss for the minors seems unrelated to the actual players there (except more players, even five, brings in more wins). You can be 50-8 in the minors with four players, yet be listed as “5th/5” in the standings. Huh? The draft and scouting system is interesting. However, since when do colleges/developmental teams get relegated to a second division or move up to the top division? That’s not how baseball works. Also, the draft is late in the season, after the trade deadline. I like having international scouts, but then picking an international player to join your team isn’t how baseball works, either. And the other weird “storylines” such as the Prodigy and Rivalry are hard to follow. My “prodigy” is still listed as in Year 2 at Boston Sabermetrics College, yet at least four baseball seasons have passed without him advancing in time. The rivalry feels like filler, yet there’s no control over anything. Periodically you’ll receive a message from your rival manager (once or twice a season), but nothing happens. Maybe some “secret” about him will unlock, but there’s nothing to care about. Overall, it’s just a frightfully odd game. If you don’t know much about baseball, you won’t learn anything here. With no way to understand how anything you do affects your team’s performance or anything, it’s pretty much throwing darts at an inflatable dart board. ### 3/5 — Needs more visibility into ratings and stats *2020-10-13* I love this game. It only gets 3/5 however, because the league leaders lists get cluttered with players that only have a few at bats. Having a qualifying number of at pats or appearances would make this stellar. Also, I’ve read the requests for better visibility into player abilities and I’ve read the developers’ response. However, I wholeheartedly recommend giving a view of player ratings on the 80 point scale. You get this in the draft, but once drafted you have no idea how a player is really progressing. Fix those two things and you’ll get a five star review from me. ### 3/5 — Hitting *2020-09-15* It looks fundamentally very good but the stats are all messed up. Almost all the extra base hits are home runs, almost 0 doubles hit by every player. Keeping the triples low is fine but the amount of doubles hit needs to be higher. Most pro hitter in mlb hit more doubles than hr. **Developer response:** Hey there! Thanks for the feedback. Just know that the MLB doubles rate from 2019 is used in the calculations, so the overall ratio should be more or less the same! Feel free to send me an email if you want to discuss it. Cheers! ### 4/5 — Great but no restore progress. *2025-07-18* Very addicting. However I had to delete some apps to create storage for a bit, when I redownloaded it, all my progress, everything was gone. I even bought from the store with real currency a few times. Quite unfortunate as it doesn’t make me want to play again is there a way I can get my progress back ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Awesome simulation! *2025-05-26* Checks most of the boxes. One annoyance is drafted players only have only one year of control. Which means you need to trade to afford draft picks. …Forcing you to buy upgrades. ### 5/5 — The best game ever *2024-07-12, version 1.552* Your kids will like it ### 5/5 — New to Baseball *2024-06-08* I am really enjoying this game, the overall description of how to play the game, for a newcomer, is excellent. A well laid out interface and easy to understand buttons, a big thumbs up from me! ### 5/5 — 핵꿀잼 *2022-01-01* 아쉬운게 있다면 게임 도중 타자를 교체 할 수 있으면 좋을거같아요! ### 5/5 — 21 *2021-03-01, version 1.3* Is 21 out? ### 5/5 — Great Game *2021-02-21, version 1.3* I love this game. I would like to see the extra batters on the active roster outside of the starting lineup be used as pitch hitters. ### 5/5 — Great Game *2021-02-21* I am shocked with how good this game is considering that it is free. I’ve had hours of fun building my roster and contending for championships. My only concern is that I was only able to find out how to change my defense once. It was cool being able to choose where my guys played on the field. How can I get to that menu again? ### 5/5 — I love this game *2021-02-15* I’ve had this game in the past, I loved this game then but I love this game even more. Everything is the same but there’s a prodigy mode and you can make yourself, which is great, 1 thing tho, the wait is way to long. 1 hour for me is to long. I bet if you make it that if you are able to play the my player part without a limit of time, I bet everyone would love it, who loves sports. Keep up the work 👍 ### 5/5 — Great, some suggestions... *2021-02-01* Hi, I really love this game! It is very very addictive and real life in a way. It is enjoyable to play a realistic baseball manager game without unnecessary payments or adds! Some suggestions I have are to have the option to make more in game decisions, playoffs are restructured to mirror a more realistic format, salaries are more reasonable, and training points have more meaning! Also, I have been winning the conference many times but haven’t won the Cup that often even though I have a stronger team.... it seems like the playoff games are random??? ### 5/5 — A game idea *2021-01-02, version 1.3* A game idea would be for the other teams to approach you for trades wether they are good or bad it doesn’t matter but also trading draft picks and free agents coming to you --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-21.*