Pinch Hitters

Pinch Hitters is a baseball deck-builder built in 2 weeks for the Portland Indie Game Squad's Build Your Own Game Jam 2026. 

Form the ultimate team of batters as you face increasingly difficult foes. Will you be able to win all 9 matches and earn the title of the King of Baseball?

Credits:

Jose Pacio

John Guerra

Dillon

Special Thanks:

Hope Guerra

My Dad

Game Jam Modifiers:

Push Your Luck, Bonk, Extreme Sports, Genre Mashup, Deck Builder, Write a Custom Shader, Deckbuilder without cards or dice, Work with 3 different teammates, Boss Fights for no real reason, Name a character named "Little Mister"

If you run into softlocks, you can send us the game logs via these steps:

- hit '~' on your keyboard to open the console

-type 'open logs'

- send all the files in that folder

Known Bugs:

- When a skeleton spawns on the web build, he doesn't appear correctly on the base. He does behave like he was there though