BASIC FEATURES
The entire history of MLB baseball – from the late 1800s through today – is at your fingertips. Manage any MLB franchise from any point in history – or create your own fictional universe!
Here are just a few of the new features in Out of the Park Baseball 25!
A game-changing new Player Development Lab!
Shape the future of your upcoming stars! You can channel your inner Player Development Director like never before. A modern new Player Development Lab is here for every team that allows you to give players individual programs to work on, developing them how you like. Do you want your hitter to work on improving their baserunning? Bunting? Contact? Would you prefer your pitcher to work on building up their stamina? Developing a new pitch? Velocity? It’s all up to you – for each of your upcoming future stars!
2024 MLB Rosters and rules!
As always, Out of the Park Baseball features up-to-the-minute 2024 MLB rosters that get updated all season long, with every franchise represented fromits big league club all the way down to the low minors, and everywhere inbetween!
An all-new mode – Drive for the Pennant!
Jump right into Out of the Park Baseball in an all-new game mode Drive for the Pennant! Take the reins of your favorite MLB club at the start of the 2024 season and make key decisions at focused key points during the campaign. Execute important choices at crucial times! Maybe you’ll be at the receiving end of a season-altering trade request. Other times you’ll be transported to the manager’s seat in the last inning of a no-hitter, or bring you in to make a key pitching decision late in a game. Ride the roller coaster of the MLB season in a fun, streamlined, and exciting new way never before seen in OOTP!
Even More Detailed Player Development Control!
Delegate how each and every player on your team will spend their time day in, day out with coaches at practice. Want your power hitter to worry less about avoiding strikeouts and put that time and effort into working on his home run swing instead? Want your aging starter to spend more time practicing his control instead of spending that time worrying about his stuff? By allocating their time and focus to the areas you want, over time you can influence how players develop, maintain their skillset, and fight the aging curve.
Improved Historical MLB Modes!
Set up historical MLB games in an all new streamlined way – and benefit from vastly improved historical player ratings! It’s never been faster or easier to experience the entire history of Major League Baseball, now producing even more realistic outcomes thanks to those comprehensive ratings and simulation engine upgrades.
New licensed leagues!
For the first time ever, Out of the Park Baseball features an officially licensed Honkbal Hoofdklasse league from The Netherlands and the British Baseball Federation from the United Kingdom! Look for their official clubs, players, competitions, and more!
For the first time ever – an official partnership with the Baseball Hall of Fame!
What happens when you combine the only game that has the entire history of baseball and the the greatest Hall of Fame in sports? An incredible, year-long journey! Join us as we partner with the Baseball Hall of Fame all season – and beyond. Explore Hall of Fame Plaques, with the official, accurate text for each Hall of Famer. Discover incredible Hall of Fame artifacts, curated and released in fun “exhibits” over the course of the season in concert with the Hall -and more surprises too. It’s going to be amazing!
Dozens of upgrades big and small!
- Updated in-game engine base advancement and camera movements
- A new manager decision history screen gives you a look back on your best and worst trades and transactions
- Vastly improved trading AI, including trades involving prospects
- Updated two-way functionality with injured players
- Much more!
It’s an all-new Perfect Team! There’s nothing in the world like the incredible online competitions of Perfect Team. Featuring by far the largest player pool ever, and taking advantage of all the player rating and balance upgrades, this year’s Perfect Team is a whole new ballgame.
New Perfect Team 25 features include:
- New Tournament Roster Builder Sandbox – Prepare your rosters for tournaments in a new and efficient way.
- Team Chemistry – Players who played together in real life will get extra bonuses when on your roster together. Players gain bonuses for seasons they played together, as well as simply being part of the same team or from the same decades
- Card Combinator – Pulled non-live cards will have a chance to be a special Combinator Series version of the card. Use other cards that played with the player to get a chance to boost the raw ratings of the Combinator Series card
- Perfect Team competitions starting on the first day, including a huge Opening Weekend of Tournaments with big prizes and Perfect Team Championship Series qualifying from Day One!
- New content all season long – and beyond! All new programs, missions, competitions, and excitement await you every day.