# Astonishing Baseball Manager — user reviews > 183 indexed App Store user reviews of Astonishing Baseball Manager by Studio Zero Incorporated, rated 4.70/5 from 2,720 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/astonishing-baseball-manager/id1611390483/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/astonishing-baseball-manager/id1611390483.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,223 · 4★ 342 · 3★ 71 · 2★ 31 · 1★ 53 ## What do users think of Astonishing Baseball Manager? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Great game balance - 👍 Perfect for casual play - 👍 Excellent game overall - 👍 Very addictive and fun - 👍 Comprehensive baseball simulation - 👍 Continues to innovate and improve - 👍 Fantastic baseball management experience **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional scoring issues - 🔒 Difficulty progressing without spending money - 🐛 Inconsistent player ratings and accolades - 🐛 Training point rewards not always accurate **Commonly reported bugs** - Freezing when opening the shop - Incorrect run scoring in certain situations - Player stats not accurately updating **Most requested features** - Longer league seasons like MLB - More in-depth stat history and leaderboards - Ability to drop players and free up budget - Easier lineup creation and editing - Pitcher franchise mode - University/college feature - My franchise player mode ## Newest reviews (16 of 183) ### 4/5 — Amazing game but *2026-08-06, version 6.2.2* Amazing game but I wish the progression wasn’t so bad. It gets to a point where your rival gets so good and gets so many all stars you have to pay money to compete with them. That’s the only complaint I have Roth the game everthing else is perfect ### 4/5 — Some wishes *2026-06-23, version 6.2.0* Wish can draft in the franchise player mode. Also it is super hard to build up a player unless you purchase points. Otherwise I really like the game! ### 4/5 — Draft pick trades *2026-06-22, version 6.2.0* How the heck do you trade draft picks? Never see an option to do it ### 3/5 — Stats mean nothing *2026-05-28, version 6.1.12* I love this game and love managing baseball but there are not many games like this. One thing i really hate about this is that one season i will have a god squad that is pitching lights out and hitting bombs consistently every game. I resign them all and the next season they cant hit or pitch at all and give up runs after runs. Nothing changed except now all of a sudden my star players suck. ### 5/5 — A MUST DOWNLOAD GAME! *2026-02-08, version 5.1.2* After getting bored with fantasy baseball, I searched for apps to play. I became addicted to Tap Sports MLB and then the idiot company sold out to another idiot company which destroyed the game within a year of purchase. Then I found Astonishing. DO NOT HESITATE TO D/L THIS GAME! The game is truly amazing! You’re the GM, Coach, etc and assemble your team. You can play multiple teams or “saves”. The best part? IT IS NOT PAY TO PLAY! After months of playing AND winning, I made my first store purchase yesterday, not because I needed to, but because I WANTED to. The developers don’t make it impossible to win and to enjoy yourself, which is extremely rare with these apps. PLUS, when was the last time you ever interacted DIRECTLY with the developers? There is easy access to ask questions and get answers straight from the team! It’s basically a genius design! Also, it can be played offline but if you want a daily bonus (freebie after 10 days), you’ll need a Wifi connection for maybe a couple of minutes. If you love baseball management games, THIS IS IT! ### 5/5 — Awesome Game *2026-02-05, version 5.1.2* Addicted! ### 5/5 — Pretty deep *2026-01-25, version 5.1.2* Lots of layers and things to invest time into. Super approachable still. Definitely worth a try if you’re interested. ### 5/5 — Great Season mode *2025-12-27, version 5.1.2* Big fan of how they let you play in franchise mode ### 2/5 — Fun game but I lose too much *2025-12-17, version 5.1.1* I played as a coach and for two straight seasons, I had barely 20 wins in an 82 game season, with most games being blowouts. Pretty much all of my wins were close too. However, the aspects of managing the ballpark were cool. I also tried player mode, and it was pretty good too. However, my player had a batting average of like 0.200 and we kept losing games, no matter how much I upgraded. Even when I actually had a good season, fourth place in a 10 team division wasn't good enough to make the playoffs. It is very disappointing that this happened. ### 4/5 — Great buttttt *2025-12-16, version 5.1.1* Great game. Have 35 seasons with 14 titles to my name. I would an option to skip through multiple games at a time though. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2025-12-15, version 5.1.1* I love it ### 4/5 — Career mode *2025-12-05, version 5.1.1* Good but 162 game season would make it 5 stars ### 5/5 — So far, so good *2025-11-16, version 5.0.9* This is a fun game to start- looking forward to see where it goes ### 5/5 — Hi *2025-11-10, version 5.0.9* Hi ### 5/5 — Awesome game *2025-11-02, version 5.0.9* Great game ### 5/5 — AMAZING *2025-10-26, version 5.0.9* It is awesome but I wish I could call for bunts hit and runs and steals. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — lol *2026-06-28, version 6.2.0* Played one game….let me select God mode, tried to play a second game and said I had to pay 5 bucks for God mode. lol why let me select it as an option then try to charge me for it? I swear game developers are such losers nowadays. Edit- I bet you think you ate with your condescending reply. You go girl. So tough! ### 1/5 — Unfair *2026-06-11, version 6.1.12* This game does not seed playoff teams and cherry picks the home and road “series” Then every single playoff game you have, does not switch between home and road games during the series. In other words, you could have the best record in a season but have to play in all road games throughout the series and any series, you may have to play after that. I too have noticed that only about 20% of all playoff games are at the players home stadium which is completely unfair. A team also gets money for every game that their home to help upgrade your stadium. Since one rarely gets playoff home games players are in able to upgrade their home stadiums. If you are reading this review and have a keen sense of the rules of baseball do not download this game. This of course, is one of those games where you have to invest your own money to win. ### 1/5 — dennis nemer *2026-06-08, version 6.1.12* im sorry this game is terrible you only play as a coach you dont see any batters felding or pitching honestily who plays this the one star is nice ### 1/5 — lol *2025-11-07, version 5.0.9* Before you think about downloading this horrendous game, just know you won’t even get close to maxing a player out in the career mode without spending money, and even if you are maxed, you won’t feel like you are lol, people who made this might be actual AI ### 1/5 — Bad just bad *2025-06-27, version 5.0.5* You need to let us play as the player we created it’s called franchise not franchise manager ### 1/5 — Absolutely Garbage *2025-05-29, version 5.0.3* Never reviewed a game before until now but this is the bottom of the barrel game unless you want to spend $$$ Pure & utter garbage with a backend that is completely random with no sense of player ability. Just mash buttons & pray. But just wait for the developer to reply & tell you there are ways to win without $$$$$$$ Just downloaded again & formulated a decent team. Well it lost 12 games in a row and was 5-20 after simulating 25 games? Just why? Total complete waste of time downloading this garbage just read the unbiased reviews Deleted forever ### 1/5 — RNG sim *2025-04-29, version 5.0.2* %100 luck required ### 1/5 — No three inning save rule *2025-03-28, version 4.9.4* Game prides its self on analytics but leaves out a fundamental scoring rule of the basic game. ### 1/5 — Waste of time but haven’t spent $ *2025-02-08, version 4.4.1* It seriously doesn’t make sense how in your first year you hit just as well with almost 0 stats vs my guy who’s now in his 4th season still having trouble hitting over .200, even with apparently A power and B contact. I bet as soon as you open your wallet though your guy becomes the second coming of Babe Ruth… ### 1/5 — In App Purchases *2024-07-29, version 4.2.0* This game is a good game other than the fact that they don’t disclaim that you can lose items and etc that you had paid for. Then the developer of the game emails you to request a refund thru Apple taking responsibility for the items being lost and denies the refund. Do not play this game or purchase anything within the game. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Addicting *2026-08-25, version 6.3.0* Super addictive ### 5/5 — Great game *2026-06-25, version 6.2.0* Really good game highly recommended ### 5/5 — Thank you *2026-06-09, version 6.1.12* So happy to have a simple yet in depth baseball game to mess with ### 5/5 — Amazing in the Right Hands *2026-05-05, version 6.1.0* If you (sometimes) like the grind of building a team up from the ground up, this is PERFECT. Dealing with losing seasons, low budgets, draft busts and gems, free agency steals and wastes. It’s all there. If you are on the contrary and hate the idea of losing before getting to the fun of a three-peat, then this game is also PERFECT. If you choose a top team (whether from now or in a historical scenario) and have a near infinite amount of budget, you will quickly find yourself signing MVP after MVP. Overall, this game has a niche for everyone, you just have to find what you prefer. ### 5/5 — Muito bom *2026-04-21* Acho que deveriam fazer uma negociação de contratos igual no no basket ### 5/5 — Great *2026-04-13, version 6.0.03* Awesome ### 5/5 — Maryland high school baseball *2026-04-10, version 6.0.03* Fun ### 5/5 — Rate *2026-03-31, version 5.9.2* Great game ### 5/5 — Great Game *2026-03-09, version 5.1.2* I have been playing this game for two years and love it. ### 5/5 — Good *2026-02-15, version 5.1.2* I’m hooked.. it’s been 5hours --- *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 2026-09-09.*