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Out of the Park Baseball 21

Officially licensed by MLB, MiLB, and the MLBPA, Out of the Park Baseball 21 is a strategy & sports gaming fan’s dream come true and the only game ever to win Metacritic PC Game of the Year Award TWICE. OOTP 21 - Twenty One Years of Excellence!
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RELEASE DATE:
20 Mar, 2020
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TITLE: Out of the Park Baseball 21
GENRE: Indie, Simulation, Sports, Strategy
DEVELOPER: Out of the Park Developments
PUBLISHER: Out of the Park Developments
FRANCHISE: Out of the Park Baseball
RELEASE DATE: 20 Mar, 2020

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ABOUT THIS GAME


Out of the Park Baseball 21 - the 21st version of the award-winning sports strategy franchise - delivers the most new features and improvements in series history! It features unprecedented depth and customization, brand-new guided experiences for newcomers and veterans, authenticity licensed by MLB and the MLBPA, and a bounty of offline and online experiences found nowhere else.

“OOTP is an astonishing accomplishment!” - Boston Red Sox Principal Owner John W. Henry



Out of the Park Baseball 21 is the biggest and best version ever made. Built upon the foundation of a series that has twice won Metacritic’s PC Game of the Year - the only game to ever do that - it delivers unprecedented baseball authenticity across the board.

Out of the Park Baseball 21 Basic Features

Discover new talent, draft the next superstar, negotiate with free agents, enter trade talks with other teams, build your dynasty and guide a franchise into an infinite future! As a manager, dive into the more hands-on management and set your team's lineups, pitching staffs, in-game strategy and call the shots from the dugout. You can oversee your league at a high level, or play out each game in the redesigned 3D game mode, managing play by play or even pitch by pitch. OOTP has it all covered!

OOTP 21 comes with accurate 2020 MLB and MiLB rosters featuring ultra-realistic player ratings, schedules (including the London Series and the MLB at Field of Dreams), and league rules. Plus, all historical MLB seasons (1871-2019, including full historical minor leagues) and dozens of international pro and independent baseball leagues from around the world, featuring accurate 2020 rosters and player ratings. You can even create your very own fictional baseball universe with fictional teams and players, the possibilities are endless. The Infinite Baseball Sandbox!

New features in OOTP 21 include:

All new Game Flow guides you through the unique OOTP experience in a smart, fully customizable way! Not sure what to do next? Game Flow gets you where you want to be, depending on what is happening right now. Whether it is Spring Training, the dog days of summer, or the offseason, it is easy to find what to do next. A fun way for newcomers and veterans alike to experience Out of the Park Baseball!
At long last - build your franchise’s dream ballpark! 3D Ballpark Construction Kit 1.0 allows you to configure a 3D stadium to your whims. Choose from many different field shapes and sizes, ballpark layouts and architectural elements and combine them with Ballpark Factors to emphasize the kind of organization you want to put together - defense, power, speed, gaps, you name it. This long-awaited feature lets you live a childhood dream - building your own ballpark!
Upgraded Live Services! The smashing success of Live Starts expands this season, with additional information being used to make each Live Start even more authentic. Start your OOTP 21 experience from any date of the 2020 MLB season - from Day 1 through the end of the 2020 Postseason - with up-to-the-minute Rosters, Injuries, Trades, Standings, and more!
New 2020 MLB rules, tactics, and player strategies! Baseball is changing in significant ways, and we have got everything in place. How will you use the all-new 26-man rosters to your advantage, as well as the new 28-man September configuration? How will you strategize around the new 3-batter-minimum for relief pitchers? What will your lineups and rotations look like with separate 10- and 15-day Injured Lists for pitchers and hitters? It is a whole new world!
Community-driven User Experience improvements! A beautiful new interface with fully customizable player page statistics. Plus! Player lists are dramatically improved and can be configured to your liking, with more information than ever available at your fingertips.
Big 3D in-game upgrades! New in-game camera modes let you ‘follow the ball’ during the action, and multiple camera angles are available for pre-pitch, during the pitch, and after the pitch. Dozens of new 3D animations are in place, and the entire 3D gameplay has been smoothed and polished. Plus, we have completely reworked in-game audio for better crowd and ambient noise during games - including ballpark-specific audio customization!
Scouting reimagined! We have rebuilt scouting from the ground up this year, with significantly improved AI, new visual indicators of scouting accuracy, a new and fully customizable Player Scouting Page, new Needs-based assignments, organically created scouting reports coming at different intervals, and more. You have never experienced scouting in OOTP like this!
Drafting reimagined! A huge amount of new information is in your hands for the draft, including Mock Drafts, Future Draft Classes, sortable Draft History, and more. Realistic high school, college, and junior college player progressions make draft classes more interesting - and authentic - than ever. You will be positioned to dominate!
New statistics! Strikeout percentages, walk percentages, strikeout minus walk percentages and more are tracked and displayed to ensure you are fully aware of how successful (or not) your players are.
New league customization options! Build your baseball universe YOUR way with improved League Expansion that has been made even more configurable, including long-desired improvement of Minor League team arrangements.
The All-Star Weekend goes BIG! For the first time ever, experience and play the Prospects Game and admire majestic blasts in the Home Run Challenge.
Upgraded technical design under the hood! Reduced save game space requirements use less of your hard drive and optimize the game’s installation and simulation speed
The most active development team in the business roars back this season! Each week we produce dozens of videos and podcasts, including the popular weekly video shows This Week In Perfect Team and Perfect Team Playoff Push every Thursday, multiple Franchise series, and two audio podcasts - OOTP Now and The Kevin Kennedy Show! You are in direct touch with the developers and the community every day.
Many more improvements, all built upon the incredibly deep award-winning Out of the Park Baseball engine that has accurately simulated the World Series winner the past three seasons on MLB Network and produced entertaining simulations for FiveThirtyEight!



Perfect Team 21 mode:

Perfect Team is an incredible free online competition mode in Out of the Park Baseball that shook up the industry when it first launched in OOTP 19. Assemble, customize, and manage your team by collecting baseball cards from the past, present and future of Major League Baseball. Set your strategy and tactics, then compete against players from around the world to see who is truly the best!

Do you have what it takes to build the Perfect Team?

New features include:

New player card selection - collect over 4000 cards!
Beautiful new player card artwork
A brand new league structure with 2 new league levels and a single Perfect League. Can you become the ultimate Perfect Team champion?
New promotion/relegation systems for a more dynamic league evolution
Improved ratings calculations for every type of player card
Hundreds of new Collection Missions with great rewards
New in-season Special Tournaments - including qualifiers - and competitions with unique rewards, enhancing the wildly popular Perfect Team Tournament feature
New content delivered each and every week all Perfect Team season long
Dozens of surprises big and small all year!
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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OS: Vista/Win7/Win8.x/Win10
Processor: Intel or AMD, 32 bit or 64 bit
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 or newer, min 256 MB GPU memory
Storage: 3 GB available space
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OS: Win7/Win8.x/Win10
Processor: Intel or AMD, 32 bit or 64 bit
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 or newer, min 256 MB GPU memory
Storage: 20 GB available space
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WHAT CURATORS SAY
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Richard Nixon
846 products in account
110 reviews

Recommended
25.6 hrs on record (2.3 hrs at review time)
POSTED: 20 MARCH
Animal Crossing? Nah.

DOOM Eternal? Nah.

Half-Life: Alyx? Nah.

Baseball spreadsheet simulator? Hell yeah.

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tony stank
146 products in account
17 reviews

Recommended
7.4 hrs on record (0.5 hrs at review time)
POSTED: 20 MARCH
More realistic than the 2020 season

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Aj Shmitty
116 products in account
2 reviews

Not Recommended
57.4 hrs on record
POSTED: 31 MARCH
This is a tough game to review. Whether or not I recommend this to anyone all depends on what you want out of it. If you want to just simulate seasons and see what would theoretically happen if your build a team a certain way, I would strongly recommend this game. The long term stats of players and teams over the course of seasons and careers are put together pretty realistically, but that's also where I run into issues.

It seems like the stats are more focused on long term play rather than short term play. If your'e like me and want to play out each game as a manager, you will see some really unrealistic things happen on a game to game basis. Because this game tries to simulate realistic stats over the course of a season, it will counteract statistical imbalances if your team is doing too well or too poorly. While this creates realistic numbers in the long run, this translates very poorly if you play out or watch each game.

I'm all for unpredictability, especially in a game that tries to mimic an unpredictable sport, but the flow of what happens and when it happens in this game is extremely awkward and way too forced in my opinion. So if you want to manage each game and try to make a strategical impact on a daily basis, I can not recommend this game at all. You will be too frustrated at the lack of control you have each game. But if all you want to do is change some rosters and lineups while sitting back and letting an entire season play out in minutes, I highly recommend this. Best advice I can give is that this is not a game you can play. It is a statistics generator. If you recognize that, you will not be let down.
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Dustin2k4
65 products in account
3 reviews

Recommended
84.2 hrs on record (26.8 hrs at review time)
POSTED: 25 MARCH
The core game is amazing and always will be, however the the last few years there hasnt really been much new added to it, except the their version of diamond dynasty, which is boring because you cant play the games you just open packs. New rosters . The camera also follows the ball now . Changes in user interface. Other than than you are buying last years game with new roster.

With all that being said the core game is the best and always will be the best sim game out there , just hope they dont lose their ambition and stop adding new things.

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MartyDJTenderChicken
451 products in account
20 reviews

Recommended
11.9 hrs on record
POSTED: 30 MARCH
I've bought this series for 6 years straight so not the most impartial reviewer.

Get this game! There have been some great improvements in this game, while it looks very clean and smooth.

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Deckard
25 products in account
3 reviews

Recommended
66.5 hrs on record (33.8 hrs at review time)
POSTED: 26 MARCH
I've now owned 19, 20 and now 21 and I enjoy them all. I will continue to buy each year as long as they make a new version. We need to support small development teams that continue to put out great games.

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InfectiousBliss
48 products in account
6 reviews

Recommended
115.0 hrs on record (46.7 hrs at review time)
POSTED: 26 MARCH
A nice substitute for the lack of baseball right now.

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cory.buchanan
3 products in account
1 review

Recommended
123.6 hrs on record (103.3 hrs at review time)
POSTED: 30 MARCH
Best baseball simulation to ever exist, unlimited replay value

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unobizzybill
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2 reviews

Recommended
105.2 hrs on record (88.6 hrs at review time)
POSTED: 30 MARCH
Good

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9shorerd
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5 reviews

Recommended
9.9 hrs on record (4.9 hrs at review time)
POSTED: 30 MARCH
OOTP is the best - done this VERY MANY YEARS -- just keeps getting better!

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khazhad53.2 hrs
POSTED: 2 APRIL
Deep sim based on extensive historical data, many options for fictional league creation. I do like it, but I'm also doing this to get that dang pop up asking me to rate it to go away. Yes, I could just ignore it, but I'd feel bad since I do think this game is fantastic.

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olivepile11.6 hrs
POSTED: 2 APRIL
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roddyrw2813.2 hrs
POSTED: 2 APRIL
A fun, immersive, realistic simulation game to play while baseball's not on. A game made for true baseball fans!

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capmjh21.9 hrs
POSTED: 1 APRIL
This is a very good simulator, if you want to replay a specific season, regardless of whether it is from 1871 or 2020. The game recognizes 8 eras:

*1871-1900 Early Years *1961-1979 Baseball Boom
*1901-1920 Deadball Era *1980-1992 Defensive Era
*1921-1945 Baseball's Rebirth *1993-2004 Power Years
*1946-1960 Golden Years *2005-present Modern Times

If you stay within the season, results are very good, but your managerial expertise can make a difference, although you won't take a 100 game losing team to the playoffs, or even .500.

Now if you want to use different teams within the SAME ERA in a custom league, you'll get some skewed results, as most people who do this don't include any second division teams. Therefore the game has to make a decision as to where each team will approximately finish, as someone has to finish last. The stats will also be skewed.

Where the stats REALLY get skewed is when you create a custom league of teams over a number of different eras. The game has to decide in any specific game, which era will be favored in the results. You can get some really far out results statistically doing this, as again players usually don't include second division teams, and someone has to finish last.

The player will find that the overall ratings of the players can leave one scratching their head. Players are rated overall, and placed in 6 buckets(PP-Perfect Points):

*Entry level through Iron League 40-59 entry value: 5 PP
*Bronze 60-69 entry value: 50 PP
*Silver 70-79 entry value: 100 PP
*Gold 80-89 entry value: 1,000 PP
*Diamond 90-99 entry value: 4,000 PP
*Perfect 100 entry value: 10,000 PP

These overall ratings are supposed to give the player a numerical value of said player. But you will find that there are Diamond level players, who can't hit better than a number of Gold level players; same with pitchers ERAs. It can be frustrating to see a pitcher rated as a Bronze player with an ERA of 3.00, while another pitcher rated Diamond level has an ERA of 5.00+.and it isn't just in one year;It occurs frequently, especially in Perfect Team play.

If the player wants to create a Custom League, the best created leagues are Fictitious Leagues made up of Fictitious Players. Just make sure, in ANY league, you are the GM. DO NOT surrender that post to the AI, as it makes some very highly questionable moves. It does a good job of evaluating trades, and not making stupid ones FOR THE AI TEAMS! It DOES make stupid decisions for human controlled teams.

On another front, the best way to describe the Perfect Team aspect of the game is that it is PTW. A player cannot HOPE to advance past Silver level, unless they buy Perfect Points, and certainly cannot make it to Diamond level and stay there, without a significant investment in those points. Perfect Players can range in price from 20,000 to 1,000,000 (this is NOT a typo) Perfect Points of 175,000 costs $100 USD. There are lower amounts, such as 25,000 for $20 USD. As you can see, you won't be buying many Perfect rated Players without a significant investment. Also, Perfect Teams CANNOT be imported from prior years. So all the effort the player went through to build a decent Perfect Team gets flushed when OOTP decides to close down the server for that iteration of the game.

TL,DR: If you want to see if you could, for example, have taken the 2016 Yankees to the World Series and beaten the Cubs for the title, this is the game for you. If you want to create a league made up of World Series Champions, and see how you do as manager, or want to develop the ultimate All Star team in Perfect Team, you will likely be met with frustration, especially without the significant investment in Perfect Points for Perfect Team.
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colelam1420.4 hrs
POSTED: 1 APRIL
It is a great baseball manager game and I am sure baseball fan,especially those stat. mania will love this game.
UI is Improved compared to 2020. Worth the price:)

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gneleoj19.0 hrs
POSTED: 1 APRIL
Great game, so deep on so many levels. Will provide countless hours of playtime and you can play it anyway you like. Do you want to be a GM of a team and just manage rosters, lineups, and finances? Got it. Do you want to manage the day to day strategy and make game decisions like a Manager? Got it. Do you want to do it all? Got it. Do you want to play god mode and setup teams in any which way you'd like? Got it.

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NugHuffer29.9 hrs
POSTED: 1 APRIL
most diverse and analytic sports simulation game i've ever played. only 3 more years and i'll have purchased this game every year for a decade.

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Snake20.0 hrs
POSTED: 1 APRIL
Best one yet!

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danb16.2 hrs
POSTED: 1 APRIL
Latest upgrade has improved UI and improvements to AI logic, but still the same old annoying bugs, gemes crashing,outfielders running through walls and onto the street, fielders not moving to the base on pickoff throws etc. But the developers update continuously and the bugs usually get fixed. If you want a detailed sim of baseball for any year from the 1800's to 2020 you can't go wrong. The Perfect Team challenge mode to me seems like a gimmick to get people to lay out extra cash to build a better team. All the challenges and online leagues are designed for you to pay real money for fantasy players, but if you like that sort of thing that's another plus for you. If you're into stat based baseball sims, this is a good choice.

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Jersey24.5 hrs
POSTED: 1 APRIL
Wonderfully enjoyable. Highly recommend for baseball fans thinking they can do better than Brian Cashman.

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