MLB The Show 26
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MLB The Show 26 is a simulator developed by SIE San Diego Studio, released 17 March 2026 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 32 hrs to finish.
What MLB The Show 26 is
MLB The Show 26 is a simulator game developed by SIE San Diego Studio and released in 2026. It was published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
MLB The Show 26 is a baseball video game developed by San Diego Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It is the twenty-first installment in the MLB: The Show series and was released on March 17, 2026, for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the MLB series
MLB The Show 26 is the 128th of 129 entries we hold in the MLB series. It arrived 12 months after MLB The Show 25. The next entry was MLB The Show Mobile in 2026. Its critic score of 80 is 4 points above the series average of 76. The highest-rated entry is MLB 06: The Show at 90.
How it was received
MLB The Show 26 holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2026 averaged 78, so it scored 2 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 32 hrs.
What it launched against
MLB The Show 26 launched on 17 March 2026, within three weeks of Resident Evil Requiem, Crimson Desert Enhanced, Marathon and Pokémon Pokopia. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil Requiem, Crimson Desert Enhanced, Marathon, Pokémon Pokopia.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for MLB The Show 26 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Dlc
Quick answers
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