Comparison

Pitcher Career vs Baseball Era

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Pitcher Career

Experience a baseball career game focused on the pitcher's journey. Control every pitch, train your pitcher's stats, and build a unique baseball story with your underdog team. Make strategic decisions on and off the mound to chase championships and leave a lasting legacy.

Highlights
  • Direct pitching control
  • Pitcher training and development
  • Underdog team management
  • Build relationships with teammates
  • Career progression and retirement
  • Fictional league gameplay
Features
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Your arm. Your career. Your underdog team. Pitcher Career is a baseball career game built around the player on the mound. Take control of each pitch, train between appearances and build your own baseball story. MAKE EACH PITCH COUNT Choose your pitch and location, then time your delivery. Read your catcher's signs and watch how batters react before deciding what to throw next. DEVELOP YOUR OWN ACE Spend training points on velocity, control, stuff, stamina and mental strength. Learn pitches, manage your condition and work toward a place in the rotation or a closer's role. STAY WITH YOUR UNDERDOG TEAM Pitch for the Gunsan Albatross in a fictional ten-team league. Play through regular seasons and the postseason, chase a championship and keep your career going into the following season. BUILD RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GAMES Meet your catcher, manager and teammates. Training, rest and conversations give you choices beyond the mound. LEAVE A CAREER WORTH REMEMBERING Follow your season and career pitching records. Celebrate championships, experience retirement and begin another player's story with a successor. Direct pitching is at the heart of the game. Optional rewarded ads can finish an appearance automatically, add training rewards or restore condition. PLEASE NOTE โ€ข Supports English and Korean. โ€ข Players and teams are fictional. โ€ข Contains ads. An internet connection is required to use ads. โ€ข Career progress is saved on your device.

About

Baseball Era

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Build a ballplayer. Earn your call-up. Write your baseball story. Choose one of eleven positions and a fictional club in the Rookie Circuit, Triple-A or the Majors. Create your player with twenty portraits, train your skills and build a career one season at a time. MAKE THE BIG DECISIONS Step into up to three turning points each game. Choose from three clear actions in batting, baserunning, fielding or pitching situations. Your decisions change the current play as the game simulates around you. A catalog of 200 situations brings different challenges to each role. CHASE YOUR NEXT CHAPTER Follow standings and postseason series, earn promotions, negotiate contracts and request trades. Set season goals, chase personal records and build a legacy through awards, season history and career statistics. Play game by game or simulate seven regular-season games at a time. DEVELOP YOUR PLAYER Spend skill points, balance training and recovery, scout matchups and follow your call-up roadmap. Use earned game money in the Life shops. Change your portrait or jersey as your career grows. PLAY AT YOUR PACE The career game works offline with no account required. Two free career slots keep separate stories, and saved decisions let you resume interrupted games. Choose light, dark or high-contrast appearance options. OPTIONAL PERMANENT PASSES App Store purchases offer extra career slots and boosts to game XP or game-day pay. VIP expands your total to five careers; dedicated boosts can combine with VIP for 3ร— game XP and pay. All Access includes every pass benefit once. Purchases, restore and ownership verification require an internet connection. Prices are shown by the App Store. Life shops use earned fictional currency, separate from real-money purchases. All clubs and leagues are fictional. Gameplay results are simulated, and estimates for other players are labeled as projections. Baseball Era is not affiliated with or licensed by any professional baseball league or club.

Screenshots

Pitcher Career4 screens
Baseball Era4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pitcher Career at none against Baseball Era's 5. Baseball Era's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Baseball Era sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Pitcher Career asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 6 level
Pitcher Career versus Baseball Era: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPitcher CareerBaseball Era
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews75.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysโ€”
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
MonetizationAd-supportedโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.5 โ€” better16.4
Further details โ€” not scored
Size196 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJaeyoun KimLiam Howeth

In-app purchases

None

Pitcher Career

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Baseball Era

One-time5
  • Extra Career Slots$0.99
  • 2x XP$3.99
  • 2x Money$3.99
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  • VIP Starter Pack$4.99
  • All-Access Pass$9.99

Questions

Is Pitcher Career free?
Pitcher Career is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Baseball Era free?
Baseball Era is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pitcher Career or Baseball Era have ads?
Pitcher Career shows ads; Baseball Era does not.

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