Backyard Baseball '97
BANGER · Short indie · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $7.49, at or past its typical seasonal cut of 20%. The Autumn Sale runs to Oct 8.
- Length
- 13.2h
- Value
- $0.57/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 25% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 20% ($7.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($4.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 5670 1GB DDR3 Sapphire, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
Rediscover the joy of the original Backyard Baseball 1997, now updated for modern systems! Build your roster from among the iconic Backyard Kids, aim for those home runs, and various game modes. Relive the magic of this classic baseball game!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.99. That was June 2026. Its cuts run 20 percent off as a rule. There have been 14 in the 2 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today's $7.49 at 25 percent off still sits 50 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, pureya ($5.99, scores 90) and Sonic Origins ($29.99, scores 34) both come in lower.
$17.62 is where it would stop being a BANGER. It is priced at $7.49.
This site sampled 361 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 727 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 105 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 449 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 13.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
100% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
13 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 08:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
this game and all the other games in this series have taken over my life. 100 percent recommend. PLEASE play backyard sports
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Backyard Baseball '97 scores 96/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3170540/backyard-baseball-97Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 2.
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