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"
NOTE: Right now we are using a custom branch of Godot to export C# godot games to web. It works for the most part, but because it is highly experimental, there are definitely still issues. For the best experience, download the Windows version.
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
- Known softlock when you have robber on your team. Currently still investigating the cause.
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This is such a fun deck builder!!
Incredible how you've combined the mechanics of baseball and deck builders in such a satisfying way. The visual spinner representing batting odds are so nice, and the choices for my team and add ons are genuinely hard to make.I kept playing after my recording and managed to eventually beat it, though I feel bad cause I kind of cheesed it. I don't remember specifics, but I managed to get two batters with 100% averages, and could both hit 3 bases. Once one was on the field, the other would hit and move to third, pushing them home, then I just put them back up to bat and repeat.
Would love to play this more if you ever consider expanding! Had a wonderful time, thanks for making it!
Really really really nice!
this is an amazing combo: the dream with Ogre bat and the Starman with the baseball diamond
10/10, i really liked it! feel like it could be built upon further, some music would be nice maybe (?)
Very cool. Here's my ending team for balance.
love the game, think it's little unbalanced, maby i'm just lucky and got the dream team :)
At this point I guess my build revolve around having necromancer on first, doesn't matter if he strikes out because dreamer and Dave will clean house XD (and Yeti and Robot is a backup plan)
gg, 10/10 game
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love the evolutions and how you don't originally know how to unlock them
Well done!
The Dream + Ogre Bat lol
I'd buy a full version of this.
I see a lot of potential, but the late game is... kinda boring. The issue for me is that it's very easy to get a batter over 100% accuracy and to give them enough strength that every one of their hits is a homerun. For example, you could get the Dream, give them a lead weight and/or an ogre bat, and now you win every game forever, with just one batter.
Very fun game! Thanks for it
showoff insane. got him 8 strength 100% accuracy. otherwise amazing game
Genuenly so fun played for an hou
gave a shy guy ball and chain at the start into an ultimate bat and it is effectively >100% accuracy and has enough minimum strength to go full circle every time, making it a deterministically free wi
Incredible little game! If I needed to hire a character designer, I'd hire you on the spot!
heres the team I finished the game with! :] probably not the best but i got attached to the little guys :')
Oh my God BaseBaal is such a great pun 😂
Love this game Charles and Dreamer make such an amazing duo and I couldn't get rid of those two even when I knew I should lol
I love turn-based sports games, so I really appreciate this, even though it doesn't last very long.
I'm guessing maybe there will be more but im not sure about it actually happening.
Once you have Starman and Robot at strength 8 with Baseball Diamonds, the game becomes repetitive and allows you you spam those two for 8 rounds to guarantee a win. I assume Basebaal is the final boss and development didn't go further but I loved it! Couldn't stop min-maxing. Mad props!
Made a video
Giving a couple characters the Stat Tracker and then using Picket Bat with Mr. Baseball Junior to strike out 8 times in a row for an immediate +8% on the other characters is awesome, also really hilarious how many times I was mad at him for actually hitting the ball despite having a 1-7% chance... I think he's a liar lmao
really fun game but the end game is a bit boring, I had a character that couldn't miss so I basically couldn't lose but the requirement was 25 points so it was just a boring level to play.
Randomly clicked and surprisingly fun and cute lol
I managed to beat the game without buying any characters. Love it.
A fun little game!! it could use some music theme, but overall very cute (love the visuals and the tiny piece of story here and there!)
Really cool gameplay and beautiful artwork! Nice job!
Can you set the target platform for the download? Can't download on itch.io desktop without one.
Love the game! had a glitch where shy guy's outs didn't count for some reason? Was using the web version.
Someone can show all the évolution ? Only fine 2
excellent game. Make it faster pls.
It would be nice to have a screen of victory at the end.
The characters are really cool, they might need some balancing. Maybe you could add a fatigue/stamina stat to the players to avoid spamming the same characters all over again.
I really had a lot of fun. Thanks.
I was able to win against Basebaal in 8 turns with that team. Playing only the Trioberserker, Mr. Little baseball, Starman, and the robot in that order.
I found a glitch where if you have a character with 100% or more accuracy against the eyes character it doesn't shows the first swing as a full red circle.
Because he apply a -99% accuracy malus. So if you have more you have a chance to hit the ball
Cute artwork, fun game.
Fun game. Lost 3 times in a row. Never get anything good in the shop. Won't play again, but thanks.
I made a game similar to this, but this is 100x better, love it!!
Really cool idea! Needs more characters, levels etc, but the idea is def there! Really cool