Backyard Volley

First-person volleyball

Backyard Volley is a first-person volleyball game for PC where you use mouse movement, timing and jumps to play each touch, rather than pressing hit buttons. The game reads your swing shape along with where you’re looking and when you jump, so a mouse motion can make a pass or a spike depending on the play.

You bump the ball up to a setter, catch it overhead and push it up for a hitter, or jump at the net to block. To spike, jump and whip the mouse down through the ball; hitting it at the top of your jump adds power. You can hold the left mouse button and swing softly to tip the ball over a blocker. On serves, the shape of your swing determines the serve.