TOTALLY BASEBALL [VR]

Totally Baseball is a VR baseball simulation that covers the whole sport rather than cherry-picking one exciting slice of it. You are not just swinging at pitches in a batting cage. You rotate through every role on the field: batter, pitcher, fielder, and even the announcer booth. When you throw a ball from second base, the game teleports you to the catching position so you have to receive your own throw. It is a clever design decision that keeps you engaged even when playing solo, and it is the thing this game does better than anything else in the VR baseball space. The pitching system is where the skill ceiling actually lives. Beyond basic fastballs, you can throw curveballs, slowballs, and splitters, and mastering the motion controls to land them accurately is genuinely satisfying. On the batting side there are two modes: classic, which eases you in with forgiving timing, and Pro, which demands real technique. Combine that with adjustable throwing assist, a hand-cannon accessibility option for players who struggle with motion accuracy, and dedicated practice and tutorial modes, and the game does a decent job of scaling to both first-timers and people who want a real challenge. Comfort settings and hand position tuning are also present, which matters more in a sports sim than people expect. Multiplayer is where Totally Baseball extends its lifespan considerably. Free Play supports up to 20 people at once, and 1v1 matches are available for a tighter, more competitive format. The community around the game has been active enough to sustain a Discord with regulars. Solo play is still functional but the team count and venue selection are modest, so purely single-player runs can start to feel repetitive faster than the multiplayer grind does. Some Steam community reports note occasional technical friction around starting the game through SteamVR, and throwing physics can misfire in edge cases, which is worth knowing if your setup is unconventional. The atmosphere does carry its weight. Venue variety ranges from small dirt lots to larger night-lit stadiums, and the audio, from the crack of the bat to glove catches and live announcer calls, gives it genuine game-day texture without feeling overdone. It is a budget-tier indie VR title visually, but the moment-to-moment physicality of swinging, throwing, and catching lands well enough that you stop noticing the polygon count pretty quickly. If you own a SteamVR-compatible headset and want the most complete VR baseball experience currently available on PC, Totally Baseball delivers on that specific promise. Just go in knowing it is a motion-controls-first game that rewards patience during the learning curve, and the best version of it is the multiplayer one.

Alex · Scout Team

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