# Backyard Baseball '97 — user reviews > 265 indexed App Store user reviews of Backyard Baseball '97 by Playground Productions LLC, rated 4.00/5 from 1,548 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/backyard-baseball-97/id6740349666/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/backyard-baseball-97/id6740349666.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 947 · 4★ 176 · 3★ 137 · 2★ 88 · 1★ 200 ## What do users think of Backyard Baseball '97? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Nostalgia and great memories - 👍 Faithful recreation of the original game - 💡 Potential for future updates and expansions - 👍 Seamless mobile experience **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs - 👎 Difficult controls and input issues - 👎 Limited screen size and visibility - 👎 Lack of new features or modes **Commonly reported bugs** - Gameplay freezes and crashes - Inconsistent fielding and throwing mechanics - Hitting mechanics feel unresponsive - Inability to save progress after crashes **Most requested features** - Full-screen mode - Improved controls and input responsiveness - New game modes (e.g., home run derby, playoffs) - Ability to select home field - Option to mute all sounds ## Newest reviews (15 of 265) ### 4/5 — Great but need to fix bugs. *2026-07-17, version 1.2.4* Love this game, but for a long time now season mode doesn’t record stats correctly. Please fix the bug to record season stats. ### 5/5 — Best game ever *2026-06-12, version 1.2.4* This game is goated ### 5/5 — Love *2026-05-29, version 1.2.4* I love this game. It keeps me entertained. I listen to the animated videos and it makes me go sleep. ### 2/5 — Backyard baseball *2026-05-26, version 1.2.4* This game is super hard and laggy I would spend 5 dollars on a game many people will forget about. Pitching is weird and hitting is hard ### 3/5 — Good game! Major bugs still! *2026-05-24, version 1.2.4* I love this games 30 players and it’s fun replayability but I keep getting errors to where’s it’s almost unplayable because when you make a save and try loading it there’s a chance it will just crash… I’ve made a couple reviews before and you fixed it but now new ones keep showing up after the fix. Doesn’t take the charm away from the game though 🙂 ### 5/5 — Great game!!! *2026-05-21, version 1.2.3* You should really play this game and after I got this game it was so fun still play it to this day.At first it might be tricky but when you get the hang into it, then you can have a bunch of fun even when you're just starting ### 3/5 — Season stats for players inconsistent *2026-05-11, version 1.2.3* The gameplay is great - it’s Backyard Baseball after all but stat counting is inconsistent. Sometimes game stats update, sometimes they just disappear. The team season record and scores save fine but individual player records are all over the place. It’s quite annoying hitting multiple dingers with Pablo Sanchez and then they disappear from his record - hopefully this gets patched soon. ### 5/5 — Good game but needs to be improved *2026-05-08, version 1.2.2* My friend is anti cheating and the game needs to improve it and make some players betters fun game ### 5/5 — Awesome *2026-04-13, version 1.2.2* I will say one thing. THIS GAME IS AWESOME ### 5/5 — Amazing game but… *2026-03-22, version 1.2.2* Don’t get me wrong this game is awesome and I really enjoy playing it, but if you added home stadiums for league play, it would be better than ‘01! ### 4/5 — recommend this! *2026-03-17, version 1.2.2* fun game, but why is it almost impossible to hit with dante?! ### 5/5 — good game *2026-03-12, version 1.2.2* great game but there is one issue. You can’t skip opponent homeruns or walks. I would be fine with this but the players go so incredibly slow during homeruns and it could take like 30 seconds. ### 5/5 — Pete is a all star *2026-03-02, version 1.2.2* My favorite player is Pete. He is so fast ### 4/5 — Why 4.99 *2026-03-01, version 1.2.2* Why is this one 4.99 and the others are free? Need to add fullscreen and controller support. That would be awesome! ### 2/5 — What a throwback! *2026-01-24, version 1.2.2* This game takes me back. I have a few complaints though. During one game, the pitcher would begin pitching before my batter’s animation was complete. This went on for a whole inning since before I closed the app. Now Pete Wheeler’s run animation is slowed down. I closed the app twice before reopening and no change. He runs slower than expected and what we all expect him to. I’m not talking about when he’s behind a runner and needs to adjust speed. I’m talking about stealing bases and he’s no where near what he was last night. If the game compensates by increasing the difficulty level, I’d like to know that. In a game I was just playing, Kenny reached second during a base hit before Pete reached third. I’m at a loss. Devs, what’s up? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Frequent Crash 16 Promax *2026-06-08, version 1.2.4* Frequently crashes. Not a good port AT ALL ### 1/5 — Awful *2026-06-05, version 1.2.4* Cant hit the ball. The game is so slow. Screw this. The memory is there, but he game sucks honestly. ### 1/5 — Balls counted as strikes *2026-05-29, version 1.2.4* This stupid game said that I got a strike when it was out of the box ### 1/5 — FIX THE STATS AND STOP SENDING ERROR MESSAGES WHEN I PLAY OFFLINE!!!!! *2026-03-30, version 1.2.2* I turned off my data and Wi-Fi on purpose!! I don’t need to be reminded every five seconds like I’m stupid. Edit: Fix the bug with season mode statistics!!!! ### 1/5 — STOP SENDING ERROR MESSAGES WHEN I PLAY OFFLINE!!!!! *2026-03-03, version 1.2.2* I turned off my data and Wi-Fi on purpose!! I don’t need to be reminded every five seconds like I’m stupid. ### 1/5 — can’t even open the game *2025-11-30, version 1.1.31* i can’t even open the game, i’ve restarted my phone and let it rest for a couple minutes and still doesn’t open - wasted my money ### 1/5 — hate *2025-10-30, version 1.1.27* hate it ### 1/5 — Bugged *2025-10-17, version 1.1.27* I try to open it and it immediately kicks me out what a waste of almost $2 including tax…. ### 1/5 — Glitch *2025-10-06, version 1.1.20* I loved this game a lot but the one thing I dont like about it is that it costs 5 bucks but for a game like this it doesn’t matter but as soon as I got it on my phone it just wouldn’t let me in the app I thought it was the phone but a few days later my brother got it and it was perfectly fine I’m thinking I got scammed please fix this ### 1/5 — Cheats *2025-07-15, version 1.1.7* Game will cheat. Errors will happen conveniently for the computer to comeback (ball out of play, drop the ball, etc.) and will prevent you from scoring. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Home run *2026-08-29, version 1.2.4* This game is amazing as someone who has never played the original version this game is just great ### 5/5 — Best *2026-08-12, version 1.2.4* BEST GAME EVER ### 5/5 — Great game only one thing *2026-07-21, version 1.2.4* Great game overall. Highly recommend. Only thing is when I use Pete Wheeler, he seems like he has 2 speed instead of his normal 4. Is this a glitch, or has he been nerfed? ### 5/5 — Amazing game *2026-07-21, version 1.2.4* Gonna throw back to this game, classic characters there isn’t still some bugs, but it’s OK ### 5/5 — Backyard baseball is but add hockey to mobile *2026-07-20, version 1.2.4* I love backyard baseball I play the football game too and I like it too I can’t say really anything bad about the backyard series but please add backyard hockey to mobile I know a lot of people would love it ### 5/5 — You can play for hours. *2026-07-14, version 1.2.4* You can play this game for hours. I was in my 12th inning until the game finished.It’s a game were you can play for an hours and for a mobile game that’s amazing! Found this game when watching a YouTuber play it Joe Bart. 5 star loved it. ### 5/5 — W *2026-07-05, version 1.2.4* I really like the game just wish the games were shorter ### 5/5 — BEST GAME EVER *2026-06-24, version 1.2.4* Now don’t get me wrong. This game is good, but it did kick me from the game a couple of times. It’s probably not because of the game. It’s probably just because of the device I’m playing on. Anyone who didn’t like this game is crazy ### 5/5 — Backyard baseball *2026-06-21, version 1.2.4* I love this game the best baseball game I have ever played the one thing the is kinda annoying is the the ump the calls outs is sometimes a little inaccurate But other than that best game ever ### 5/5 — One of the best games I have ever played *2026-06-14, version 1.2.4* This game is AMAZING, which is surprising because its 29 years old and I’m playing it on a phone, but everything works great besides a crash every once in a while, Dimitri’s batting rating needs to be higher, he is a demon power hitter --- *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 2026-09-07.*