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MLB Rivals – Sports Game Review
MLB Rivals is a Sports/Simulation game from Com2uS Corp., first launched in 4th July 2023.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 4,954+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes MLB Rivals Stand Out
Enjoy an Officially Licensed MLB Baseball Game Anytime, Anywhere
Experience the fully integrated 2025 MLB schedule, and take on the World Series with 2025 Live Cards!
The game now features baseball legends from the National Baseball Hall of Fame—available as brand-new cards!
The game chosen by 2-time National League MVP Bryce Harper, MLB Rivals!
■ MLB Rivals Game Features
[NEW]
New Development Transfer System: Transfer development to new cards of the same position!
New League Difficulty: Push your limits and take on a tougher challenge!
Locker Room: Unlock Clubhouse Leader and boost your leader’s stats!
The television voices for the Los Angeles Dodgers Joe Davis (play-by-play) and Orel Hershiser (commentary)
[REAL]
2025 MLB season schedule, stadiums, and uniforms fully featured!
2025 Live Cards that reflect real-time performance!
Realistic player motions captured with cutting-edge technology!
Relive the most thrilling moments with the Replay system!
[PLAY]
[Quick Play, Spotlight Batting, or Full Play]: Choose how you want to enjoy the game!
Ranked Slugger: Become the true Home Run King!
Live Match: Face off against rivals from around the world in real time!
Club Battle: Join forces with your Club members to challenge the top clubs!
[EASY]
No more complicated controls! Enjoy simple one-touch play.
Speed through games with Quick Play and play speed settings!
Grow your players with ease! Improved Consecutive Upgrade feature!
Feel the thrill of baseball action with MLB Rivals!
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• Language support: English, 한국어, 日本語, 中文繁體 and Español
• Items are available for purchase in this game. Some paid items may not be refundable depending on the type of item.
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This Sports game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, MLB Rivals is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 24th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
[New Content]
- Signature Black Card Recruit
- New League Mode Difficulty
- Transcendence Expansion
- Transcendence Potential
[Improvements]
- Special Deck Score Effect Revamp & Expansion
- Animation & UI Improvements
Download & Availability
MLB Rivals is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone XS / iPhone XS Max / iPhone XR / iPad Pro (3rd Gen, 12.9-inch, Wi-Fi) / iPad Pro (3rd Gen, 11-inch, Wi-Fi) / iPad Pro (3rd Gen, 12.9-inch, Cellular) / iPad Pro (3rd Gen, 11-inch, Cellular) / iPad Mini (5th Gen) / iPad Mini (5th Gen, Cellular) / iPad Air (3rd Gen) or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This by far the best baseball mobile game Ive ever played. We wish more games would adapt the progressive/grind approach rather than hard resetting the game every year. A couple of things we wish would be added are an auction house and more pvp events like home run world championship and extra innings event. Otherwise this game is as perfect as it gets for mobile baseball games. More people should be playing this game.
When you win the World Series or something the reactions are like a normal win can you fix that.
Best (baseball) game on the market , if youre looking for graphics + gameplay.
The game is amazing! But the cards are a little rigged. We would like to see a couple more fair ratings and if somebody doesnt play in a season get the card out of the game. Next about the cards, nobody wants to pay 50 bucks for a package including a signature pack, just to get a 53 overall card that they cant use. Then comes the announcers, theve gotten better, and in the games defense, they are adding a lot of players at a time which could be affecting the no name announcements. Lastly, Club battles, they are fun but would like it to be a three inning game like pvp, and full play. Recommend it, it is a very easy and hard game at the same time when you start out. But once you reach 90-100 team overall, everything is fun.
Game is really fun. We play every day, and you dont need to spend any money.
It a great game but there is two things and one of them is the pitching we feel like there should be options in setting like where you have to tap it at the right time to get the pitch where you want it like it should say perfect,good,okay,bad and the second thing is that when we throw a pitch very low some how the hitter is able to hit it in the air or on the ground which is impossible for a hitter hit it because usually they will miss it and we know some hitters are able to hit it but the out come is usually it is a foul ball or weak contact back at the pitcher but overall its a great game we have fun playing it.
We love it, but can you make it easier to get Hall of Fame cards. We havent got one since its very beginning the game.
This is amazing make more games like this or we will eat someone.
We love to play this game. Maybe you can add the ability to rob a homerun on a wall scraper. That would make it even better.
The game is awesome, but we should be able to put gear in our players by now.
Great game. How about having the fans catching a home run or fowl ball.
The game plays really well and is endless fun. Mechanics work really well and it looks amazing. Our biggest critique is the commentary being really repetitive and sometimes glitchy.
It is lowering our players ovr like our cal Raleigh 95-91 and jeeter 95-91.
We love this game, but this most recent update has stopped us from being able to load into the game. A little irritating considering the fact that ive built a crazy team in the pas 2.5 years. Get this fixed.
MLB rivals yalls game is amazing but faces and pitchers and hitters stances take Matt Strahm his face looks nothing like him and his pitching style looks nothing like him in real life that is just one thing that could make this game amazing.
This is a fun game however it has many issues and starting off with the pay to win areas of this game the packs in order to upgrade your team cost around $20-$50 with the signature card packs coming in at around $80 just to get one guaranteed and the only other way to get signature cards is to craft them, but this action takes multiple weeks in order to accomplish with you not even getting the card you want half the time and along with this the live match has multiple issues within not being fairly balanced, and you going up against opponents that are way better than you because they have all the signature cards were as you dont, along with this, you can have the same score rating book go up against skies that have a better overall rating to do by like up to 20 or even more and thats like insanely common and you cant do anything against them, but lose and lose and lose, they need to make it to where you faced people based on their overall not the score. Our opinion on whether you should play this game or not is yes but try to push for them to fix their problems.
Buying item for upgrades are too expensives for a mobile game.
Hello MLB Official, we have a problem when opening the game for the past 10 minutes where it says cannot reset hive or something and it says ____ error we forget. Pls help us know what happend.
We love this game but the sound is bad.
Its so good but some things like theres this inning thing and Im always confused sometimes.
We love everything on it but we want an all star game.
One thing id suggest is adding the rivals lineup to the lineups page rather than having to go into the game mode itself to make lineup changes. So essentially having, league, battle, live and rival instead of just the three. Otherwise everything is great in our opinion, just a suggestion to maybe streamline things a bit in that aspect.
This game is great if you could costumize your own player with diff batts thats golden commentator need maby a little more vocab and excitement.
For some reason this game is not working and Im wondering if they should update the game.
In real life MLB players dont only hit pop-ups and can hit pitches out of the zone. The game is fun(when it functions)but also our live match does not work well, our team does whatever it wants and doesnt do what we tell it to.
Its fun like any other game but the problem is you need internet.
We can personally say it was one of the best games Ive ever played. It is super fun and realistic. The only complaint really is that sometimes we wish we could control where the players should go like sometimes we wouldve got an extra base or stayed back on a run. But other than that great game :).
Was looking for a good ol classic baseball game you know the one with the real players names and actual players, didnt find any and the ones we did find werent meeting our expectations that is until we found this game MLB rivals and it has succeeded our request.
We think that the game is very slow pace but still adds assets that make it interesting and we think the asset of impact and prime cards are very unique while also having many game modes in it and we dont really have any problems with the game.
The game is excellent, we really like it. But we think they can add more uniforms, and a story mode where we could create our own player and add more HOF.
We would like your team to please fix the announcers when you hit a home run because sometimes they dont even announce the home run also we think adding trades would be perfect we love this game but if you could fix theae it would be perfect.
The new 25 signature Ohtani & Yamamoto cards are 69?!?!? Absolutely awful ratings as you have tatis jr. And other countless mediocrity with 72+!?! Stop hating on excellence and Greatness and rate your cards accordingly you jokers.
The game has to be more realistic, like when you hit a ball off the wall, the outfit there already knows where to go to get the ball most of the time in real baseball when they hit a ball to the outfield off the wall the player has to run it down, track it down and come up with the ball sometimes the ball gets fumbledas they trying to pick up all of that. The game just needs to be a little bit more realistic, but overall its probably the greatest baseball game phone wise. Also can we get alternate team jerseys! We would love to see teams with alternate uniforms. P. S. Does this game work with the backbone handheld controller? Can you please make this game compatible with the Backbone handheld controllers.
We love on how realistic this game is and we think that you guys should add a exhibition mode that doesnt require balls. So basically what Im saying is that you should make a quick pickup game mode that is single player and doesnt require balls. Thanks and that you can play a full nine innings without simulating. :).
Add gamer controller capabilities for IOS.
Please add ichiro, hes our idol.
This is a great game you need to try it.
Great for long car rides very few adds NOT pay to win Just a overall great game.
Its really fun and it relaxing.
Even though we play on Mac, This works great.
We luv this game but we spent alot of time in the world series and we managed to get the sweep and all it said was "and the yankees take game 4" we were waiting to see how the players celebrate. Can u plz fix this? Thank you so much! Great game.
After you leave a game because your mad and it does it for 30 minutes then if you do it again you get 12 hours it should go like to two hours not 12 hours But it is fun but if your under 100 you should not face over 100.
Its a good game for baseball fans.
So the one thing Im saying is that why doesnt this game have the lineups of old players like not the new players on the team but its a good game.
Can you actually create new teams and new rivalry.
We like how the game has a batter spotlight, almost like we're playing a myplayer mode. Our only complaint is that it doesn't have some of the most influential players like A-Rod, Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds.
Great game, but some teams their players are not current.
Amazing game always fun but sometimes it can be REALLY GLITCHY. But otherwise awesome game.
This game was a good game,we can tell that it paid off. We just dont like how it wont let you charge the mound or make the benches clear. Please make a few changes.
EDIT: the timed forfeit on club games is ridiculous. Its not like the games are synchronous. Why the hurry? Also, someone complained about the commentators being awful. Its true. Turns out a ground ball is NOT a blooper. Thats just an example. Tons of fun stuff to do great representation of the teams. The live update season stuff is really cool. The prices in the App Store are unreasonably high. For example you can get a couple of low level break cards for $99. We like to spend money in the store sometimes but this is ridiculous.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.08.10
- Size: 3,663.69 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN, JA, KO, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Contests, Loot Boxes
- Developer: Com2uS Corp.
Last updated: 24th December 2025 | Genre: Sports, Simulation | Developer: Com2uS Corp.