College baseball · iOS & Android · Free

Out now · Free on the App Store

Home Run Empire.

The pitch-by-pitch college baseball dynasty sim. Build your roster through recruiting and the transfer portal, manage your lineup and pitching staff through a live at-bat sim, and chase a national championship in Omaha. Free. No paywalls on dynasty mode.

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Out now on the App StoreLive pitch-by-pitch simEvery conference · Full schedule simRecruiting · Transfer portalThe road to OmahaBuilt solo · Rhode Island

Home Run EmpireLaunched June 15, 2026

App Store4.7★iOS · Free to play

Previous title#1Hardwood Empire · Sports & Sim

Hardwood downloads55K+First month · $0 on marketing

Dynasty length20+Seasons per career

01 · What is in the game

The game manages the contact. You manage the decisions.

Signature feature

Every at-bat in every game plays out pitch by pitch. Counts build. Situations develop. You decide when to call for a bunt, when to send a runner, when to pull the pitcher. Managing a bullpen through a seven-game regional feels like actually doing it.

Bottom 7th · 1 outMen on 2nd & 3rd

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P97Slider, 84 mph. Fouled off.
P96Fastball, 93 mph. Ball three.
P95Changeup. Swinging strike.

02 · Dynasty mode

Dynasty mode

Careers run 20-plus seasons with no forced endpoint. Program prestige, recruiting reputation, and conference standing all shift based on results. Early seasons are a grind, later seasons are about defending what you built.

03 · Recruiting

Recruiting & transfer portal

Every offseason you scout high school prospects and work the transfer portal. Every player has a position, class year, archetype, upside rating, and hometown. Build for the long term or patch holes for a tournament run. Both have costs.

04 · Player metrics

Advanced player metrics

Full stat cards for every player: OPS, BABIP, K%, contact rate, hard-hit percentage, and league percentile rankings. The player card has the depth of a real scouting report.

05 · Program management

Program management

Coaching staff, AD pressure, job security, and program trajectory all run underneath the surface. One bad season starts the calls. Two bad seasons and the AD is making a change.

06 · Tournament

The road to Omaha

Regionals, super regionals, and the road to Omaha all play out in full. One bad weekend in a regional ends the season. Making it to Omaha after five seasons of building is the payoff.

07 · Conference

Conference standings

Full conference schedules across every division. Your standing affects recruiting pull, scheduling strength, and tournament seeding. Conference rivals matter.

Not a dollar spent on marketing. Just the game. If it is good enough, people find it.

Finn Keating · Solo developer, Empire Sports Apps LLC

02 · The developer

Same playbook. New sport.

My name is Finn Keating. I’m a college student based in Rhode Island and I build sports sim games by myself. No team. No publisher. No outside developers. Everything in Home Run Empire, the engine, the sim logic, the recruiting system, the at-bat sim, the design, the product, I built all of it.

Hardwood Empire was my first title. It hit #1 in App Store Sports and Simulation within 48 hours of launching during March Madness 2026.

I applied everything I learned to this one. Home Run Empire is a bigger, deeper game than Hardwood Empire. The live at-bat sim alone took longer to build than the entire first version of Hardwood.

I launched it the same way, without spending a dollar on marketing. If it’s good enough, people find it.

#1Previous title55K+Hardwood downloads, first month$0Spent on marketing0Outside developers0Publisher

03 · The launch

How it shipped.

The timingJune 2026

Launched during the biggest week of the college baseball calendar, the national tournament in Omaha. Same strategy that took Hardwood Empire to #1 during March Madness 2026.

The gapZero.

There was no college baseball GM sim on the App Store. Home Run Empire launched straight into that gap, from a developer who had already run this playbook once.

04 · Press kit

Key details.

No embargo. Free to publish.

Title: Home Run Empire: College GM
Developer: Finn Keating, solo developer, Empire Sports Apps LLC
Platform: iOS and Android. Free on the App Store and rolling out on Google Play.
Released: June 15, 2026. Timed to the college baseball national tournament in Omaha.
Genre: Sports simulation / dynasty management
Monetization: Free. Ad-supported. No paywalls on dynasty mode or core gameplay.
Publisher: None. Self-published.
Investors / partners: None.
Embargo: None. Free to publish.
Press contact: empiresportsapps@gmail.com, same-day response.

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