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Thumb Slugger

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Download everything as a zip (about 14 MB: the icon, the eight iPhone stills as PNG, the feature graphic, the gameplay video, and a plain-text copy of this page).

Factsheet

Title: Thumb Slugger
Developer: MayBolt Media
Release: Google Play: October 2026. iPhone: coming soon to the App Store.
Platforms: iPhone, iOS 15 or later. Android phones, Android 8 or later. Portrait only.
Genre: Flick-to-swing baseball game, single player.
Format: Three innings, plus a bonus inning if the game is tied. Three leagues of eight teams.
Extras: A shop with four tabs of cosmetics, bought with coins. Four leaderboards and ten achievements through Game Center and Google Play Games, both optional.
Engine: Unity 6
Links: Google Play · mayboltmedia.com/thumb-slugger
Contact: [email protected]

In one sentence

Thumb Slugger is a baseball game you play with one thumb: flick to swing, flick fast to run, and pass the other team's target before the third inning ends.

The longer version

You bat and the computer pitches. Each game is a chase: the other team has a target, and you need to pass it. Flick up through the pitch to swing. The angle of the flick sets where the ball goes, and a harder flick sends it farther. To take a pitch, don't flick. Timing sets how well you hit it, and the game calls it as you swing, so you see right away whether it was Good or Early.

Once the ball is in play, flick toward a base to send a runner, flick again to go faster, and tap a runner to send them back. Pass the target and you win. Pass it early and you keep batting through the third inning. A tie sends the game to a bonus inning, and your first run wins it.

There are three leagues of eight teams. The last team in each league is the final, and winning it moves you up to the next league and its stadium. Sandlot has fastballs only. Rising Stars adds a changeup and a curve. Big Show makes the fastballs faster and adds a slider.

Features

One thumb. Flick to swing, flick fast to run, tap to send a runner back.
Three innings a game, with a bonus inning for a tie.
Three leagues of eight teams, each league in its own ballpark: Sandlot Park, Riverside Ballpark, and Big Show Stadium.
Pitchers get harder as you climb: fastballs, then a changeup and a curve, then faster fastballs and a slider.
A shop with four tabs of cosmetics, paid for with coins.
Four leaderboards and ten achievements on Game Center and Google Play Games. Signing in is optional.
A built-in How to Play you can replay from Settings.
No account and no notifications.

Availability

Thumb Slugger is on Google Play for Android phones. The iPhone version is coming soon. There is no account. The Thumb Slugger page has the same listing.

iPhone: coming soon to the App Store

Screenshots

Eight store stills for the 6.9-inch iPhone size (1320×2868), with captions. Click for a larger JPEG. The full-size PNGs are in the press kit zip.

Thumb Slugger: a swing on the Sandlot field. The caption reads Flick to swing. A one-thumb baseball game.

Thumb Slugger: runners on the bases. The caption reads Flick fast to run. Tap a runner to send them back.

Thumb Slugger: the matchup against The Treehouse Tornadoes, with a target of 2 runs in 3 innings and a Play Ball button.

Thumb Slugger: the Leagues screen, with Sandlot, Rising Stars, and Big Show.

Thumb Slugger: the shop, with bats, balls, uniforms, and trails.

Thumb Slugger: the home screen, with Play, the coin count, and the trophy button.

Thumb Slugger: a pitch on the way at Riverside Ballpark. The caption reads Three leagues. Eight teams each.

Thumb Slugger: Big Show Stadium at night. The caption reads Three innings. Beat the target.

Feature graphic

Google Play feature graphic, 1024×500. JPEG, 1024×500. The PNG is in the press kit zip.

Video

A 16-second gameplay clip from a development build on Android, with no captions: the menu, a swing and a single at the Big Show night stadium, a runner scoring, a Sandlot Park day game, and the win results screen. Download the MP4 (720×1564, H.264, 4.3 MB).

App icon

App icon, 512×512 PNG · App icon, 1024×1024 PNG

Privacy summary

Thumb Slugger has no account, and MayBolt Media runs no servers for it, so the studio receives no personal information from the game. Progress stays on the device. The game shows ads through Google AdMob, with Unity Ads taking part in the bidding, after Google's consent tool allows them. Firebase Analytics counts how the game is used, under the same consent. On iPhone, Apple's tracking setting decides whether the advertising identifier is available. Game Center and Google Play Games are optional. The game is not directed at children. Read the full Thumb Slugger privacy policy. Questions: [email protected].

About MayBolt Media

Founded in 2026, MayBolt Media is a one-person game studio based in Atlanta, Georgia, that makes mobile games for iPhone, iPad and Android.

Contact

Press and interviews: [email protected]. Player help: [email protected]. Privacy: [email protected].

See the studio press kit for logos and the other games.

Last updated October 13, 2026.