Softball has been an event at the Asian Games since 1990 in Beijing, China.
| Year | Host | width=1% rowspan=11 | Final | width=1% rowspan=11 | Third place match | Number team | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=15% | Winner | width=8% | Score | width=15% | Runner-up | width=15% | 3rd place | width=8% | Score | width=15% | 4th place | |
| 1990 |  Beijing | 5 | ||||||||||
| 1994 |  Hiroshima | 4 | ||||||||||
| 1998 |  Bangkok | 5–0 | 7 | |||||||||
| 2002 |  Busan | Shared silver | 6 | |||||||||
| 2006 |  Doha | 7–0 (F/5) | 5 | |||||||||
| 2010 | Guangzhou | 2–0 | 6 | |||||||||
| 2014 | Incheon | 6–0 | 6 | |||||||||
| 2018 | Jakarta–Palembang | 7–0 (F/5) | 7 | |||||||||
| 2022 | Hangzhou | 4–0 | 3–2 | 8 | ||||||||
| width=170 | Team | width=25 | width=25 | width=25 | width=25 | width=25 | width=25 | 2010 ! | width=25 | 2014 ! | width=25 | 2018 ! | width=25 | 2022 ! | width=40 | Years | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | 9 | |||||||||
| 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 3rd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 3rd | 9 | ||||||||
| 7th | 7th | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 6th | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 2nd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 9 | ||||
| 5th | 4th | 4th | 4th | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6th | 6th | 5th | 4th | 4th | 4th | 6 | |||||||||||||||
| 6th | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 4th | 4th | 5th | 5th | 5th | 4th | 5th | 5th | 5th | 9 | ||||||||||||
| 7th | 6th | 6th | 8th | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Number of teams | 5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 |