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Super Mega Baseball 2

Proton (Windows) Sports (baseball simulation/arcade) 2018 other appid 414870 ⚙ GE-Proton
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About

Super Mega Baseball 2 is an arcade-leaning baseball game and the second entry in Metalhead Software's Super Mega Baseball series. Built in the Unity engine, it features a customizable roster of fictional teams and players, a tunable difficulty system (Ego), exhibition and season/franchise modes, and a stylized cartoon art direction rather than licensed MLB teams. It was well received for its accessible-yet-deep gameplay and earned a ProtonDB gold rating on Linux. The game was pulled from Steam in January 2024 and its online services were shut down later that year, leaving the single-player modes as the fully playable experience.

Screenshots

Official store screenshots from Steam — deckport links them, never rehosts. Hover to pause; click to preview.

Identity

DeveloperMetalhead Software
PublisherMetalhead Software
Released2018
GenreSports (baseball simulation/arcade)
ModesSingle-player, local and online multiplayer
Engineother
TypeProton (Windows)
Steam appid414870

Launch

Binary
supermegabaseball.exe
Needs files
none beyond the binary

Proton

Version
GE-Proton
Winetricks
ProtonDB
ProtonDB Gold runs perfectly after tweaks

⚙ Setup notes

Status: Delisted Steam game (appid 414870; pulled from sale 2024-01-26, online services shut down 2024-07-24).

Install: Unity-engine arcade baseball, exe is supermegabaseball.exe in the Super Mega Baseball 2 folder.

Proton: Runs well on Deck via Proton (ProtonDB gold, though a low-confidence sample of ~11 reports); GE-Proton is the safe choice but proton_experimental also works.

DRM: No GFWL/SecuROM DRM to bypass — it's a straightforward Steam DRM title.

Controller: Full native Xinput controller support, so it plays gamepad-out-of-the-box on the Deck with no Steam Input layout needed.

Online: Online/multiplayer servers are dead; single-player exhibition and season modes are unaffected.

Note: deckport only configures the prefix; it never bundles or links the game files.

The one thing to know

Supply your own copy: Delisted from Steam 2024-01-26 and no longer for sale.

Proton: ProtonDB gold (low-confidence, only ~11 reports) — community reports it running on Linux/Proton/Deck.

Controller: Native controller support means no Steam Input layout is required.

Online: Online multiplayer servers were shut down 2024-07-24, so only single-player (exhibition/season) is fully playable now.

Recipe: Updated with real exe (supermegabaseball.exe) and GE-Proton; still needs a hands-on confirmation on an actual Deck.

Note: deckport links nothing.

Community guides

Write-ups and threads from people who got this (or a similar) game running. deckport links to them — it doesn't reproduce them.

Get the artwork

deckport never hosts game images. Open this game on SteamGridDB, pick the cover / hero / logo / icon you like, and drop them into the game folder under .deckport-art/ before you push it to the Deck. The importer files them under the right names automatically.

Run it on your Deck

Two files: the one-time importer (deckport.py) in your Deck's home folder, and this game's install helper. Copy the game into ~/Games and run the helper with Steam closed — it writes the recipe (binary, launch options, Proton version) and registers the shortcut with artwork.