EKIDEN DASH! vs Widget Baseball
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EKIDEN DASH!
Become a university ekiden team coach, nurturing athletes over four years to win championships. Manage training, race strategy, and player development in this realistic simulation.
- Four-year athlete development cycle
- Multiple ekiden race distances
- Strategic seeding system
- Five core athlete stats
- Realistic race day simulation
- Scouting and gacha system
- Athlete progression and record tracking
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■「EKIDEN DASH!」とは あなたは大学駅伝部の新任監督。限られた環境の中で、選手を育成し、駅伝大会で頂点を目指す本格育成シミュレーションゲームです。 ■ ゲームの特徴 【4年間の挑戦】 1年生から4年生まで、選手は学年とともに成長し、卒業していきます。期限ある中で、いかにチームを作り上げるか。それが監督の腕の見せどころ。 【3つの大きな駅伝】 ・山陰駅伝6区間 45.1km ・東海道駅伝8区間 106.8km ・正月駅伝10区間 215km 予選会から本戦まで、一年を通じてレースが目白押し。 【シード制度】 正月駅伝で10位以内に入れば、翌年の予選免除。東海道駅伝6位以内も同様。シード権獲得は、長期的な強豪校への道。 【リアルな育成システム】 ・スピード/パワー/スタミナ/精神力/賢さ - 5つのステータス ・練習メニューで個別強化 ・レース距離に応じた最適配置(5000m / 10000m / ハーフ / 長距離) ・シューズ装備でステータス底上げ 【駅伝の臨場感】 1本道カメラビューで、自校と前後のチームが一緒に走る様子を表示。高低差プロファイル、襷渡し、繰り上げスタート(箱根復路の伝統)まで再現。 【全国ランキング】 監督名を登録すると、各駅伝の総合タイムを全国のプレイヤーと競えます。難易度ごとに部門が分かれているので、同じ条件の相手と比較できます。参加は任意で、いつでもやめられます。 【スカウト&ガチャ】 新入生スカウトで未来のエースを獲得。SSR/SR/Rのレアリティで才能溢れる選手たちが続々登場。 【育てる楽しさ、繋ぐドラマ】 ・PB更新、初◯分台達成、入賞、区間賞 - 各種記録更新で経験値UP ・4年間の集大成は、卒業式での感動シーン ・OB記録は永久保存 ■ こんな人におすすめ ・駅伝・マラソン好き ・育成シミュレーションが好き ・スポーツの戦略性を楽しみたい ・数字で成長を追いかけるのが好き ・他のプレイヤーと記録を競いたい ・短い時間でも、長期視点で楽しめるゲームを探している ■ 課金なしで全機能プレイ可能 EKIDEN DASH! は完全無料。広告視聴で得られる報酬を活用しながら、全コンテンツをお楽しみいただけます。 ■ お問い合わせ ご質問・ご要望は member@sci-bone.com までお寄せください。
Widget Baseball
Simulate a baseball player's career from youth leagues to the pros. Track progress, games, and achievements through an interactive widget on your home screen. Offers deep statistical tracking and multiple career paths.
- Player career simulation
- Home screen widget integration
- Youth and professional career paths
- Detailed statistics and awards
- Automatic game progression
- Dual language support (English/Japanese)
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Your player’s baseball career keeps moving, even when the app is closed. Widget Baseball is a single-player career simulation built around your Home Screen. Create a fictional player, choose how they train and compete, then follow every game, promotion, award, and turning point from the app or widget. TWO WAYS TO BEGIN • Start as a Pro Create a hitter or pitcher, complete five initial training sessions, enter the draft, and begin your first 143-game season the next morning. • Start in Youth Baseball Begin in first grade and progress through 12 in-game days. Choose training priorities, schools, and career paths; face rivals and injuries; chase regional titles and Koshien; then carry the same history and abilities into the pro draft. A CAREER THAT MOVES WITH THE CLOCK Games progress automatically from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. One real day is one pro season—or one school year in the youth career. Open the app whenever you like to review every result and decision. FOLLOW THE ACTION FROM YOUR HOME SCREEN The medium widget shows your player, club, current level, season progress, recent results, key stats, goals, and major career events. With two player slots unlocked, place two widgets and choose a different player for each. BUILD A COMPLETE BASEBALL STORY • Hitters, starters, relievers, and closers • Fictional Japanese and North American clubs • First Team, Farm Team, Major, and Minor careers • Trades, free agency, contract decisions, promotions, and demotions • Postseason series and the World Series • Detailed season and career statistics • Awards, records, milestones, rivals, and retirement stories • Optional Game Center rankings for season, career, amateur, and individual-stat records • iCloud backup through Game Center Saved Games, plus manual save export and import LANGUAGE SUPPORT Switch between Japanese and English on the title screen or at any time in Settings. The selected language is also used by the widget. FULL ACCESS — ONE-TIME PURCHASE The free version includes one professional player and the youth career through elementary school. The non-consumable Full Access purchase permanently unlocks junior-high and high-school play, a second simultaneous player, and overseas free agency for all current and future players. Full Access is not an ad-removal product. Optional special-training sessions require one rewarded video each for both free and paid players. Regular games, statistics, widgets, and normal career progress do not show ads. No account is required. All teams and players are fictional.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: EKIDEN DASH! at none against Widget Baseball's 1. EKIDEN DASH! also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Widget Baseball sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. EKIDEN DASH! asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EKIDEN DASH! | Widget Baseball |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews | 88.6% of reviews — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 5 days |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | sci-bone Inc. | n11 |
Customer experience
EKIDEN DASH!
Widget Baseball
In-app purchases
EKIDEN DASH!
No in-app purchases
Widget Baseball
- 本格プレイ$2.99







