Super Mega Baseball Extra Innings

Super Mega Baseball: Extra Innings combines cartoon-styled presentation with simulation-grade baseball fundamentals. Players unfamiliar with the rules will pick them up by playing, and the controls stay easy to learn through to the harder difficulty bands. Polygon named it 2014 Sports Game of the Year for the balance of accessibility and depth.

The Ego difficulty system is the headline feature. Each player chooses their own Ego level independently, so two friends of vastly different skill can play a competitive game together without one of them dominating. The system runs in both head-to-head and cooperative play, scaling pitcher difficulty, swing windows and fielder responsiveness on a per-user basis.

Up to four players can join locally across head-to-head, 2v1, 2v2 and full co-op against the CPU, with teammates alternating batting/running each at-bat and pitching/fielding each inning. Nine-inning games run roughly 20 minutes. Full batting and pitching statistics, a leveling system with Starpoints, hireable team staff and player customization (names, looks, attributes) cover the long-form features.