Animals Volleyball — Play Free Online

Animals Volleyball is a short, silly sports game in which animals with stretchy necks play volleyball against each other. Instead of controlling a sprinter or a paddle, you steer a long-necked creature and use its head to nudge the ball over the net. It was made by Marcus7z and published on Poki, where it was their first game there, and it was built with the Construct engine, so it loads quickly and runs in the browser with nothing to install.

A match is a simple loop: the ball goes up, you position your animal under it, and you try to place it where your opponent cannot reach. The neck gives the game its character. Because you can reach and stretch rather than only step left and right, rallies look more like flailing and lunging than careful sport, and that is the joke. Matches are quick enough for a break between longer sessions.

On a site built around Doodle Jump, it fits the same itch: a one-screen game where timing and positioning matter more than memorising a long list of buttons, and where a round is over before you get bored.

How to play

On a keyboard, move with the arrow keys or WASD. The mouse is used to aim and to pick items in the menus. On a phone or tablet, tap and swipe instead. The game is also set up as a local multiplayer game, so a friend can share the same screen and take the other side of the net rather than the computer.

Each point starts with the ball in the air. Get your animal beneath it, use the head to knock it up and across, and keep returning it until someone fails to reach it. Because the ball is only ever in one half of the court at a time, you mostly need to watch where it will land, not where it is now.

Tips

• Do not rush toward the ball. Move to where it will come down and wait, since overreaching leaves you out of position for the return.
• Aim to send the ball somewhere your opponent has to travel to, rather than straight at them.
• Use the stretch to cover the last bit of distance, not as your main way of moving around.
• If you play two-player, agree on first to a small score. The matches are short, and a quick rematch is more fun than a long grind.

Similar games on Doodle Jump

Bouncy Basketball is the closest sibling here: another sports game with wobbly physics, where you jump a character toward a hoop. Helix Jump and Bird Jumper are single-player timing games rather than head-to-head matches, and Fireboy and Watergirl is the one to pick if you want a different kind of two-player session.

Animals Volleyball suits quick sessions, playing with someone sitting next to you, and anyone who likes silly physics over strict sports rules.