Over the Net

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"Over the Net" is not only the worst volleyball game ever made, in fact, not only the worst sports game ever made, but it's a solid contender for one of the worst games ever made. This basic tech demo is the result of someone tooling around with Unity for an hour or so (if it took longer, wow), getting the project to build then rushing it immediately onto Steam Direct. This volleyball game is so bad the developer didn't even bother with player characters, you just get the basic placeholder capsules. Was this put onto Steam sincerely? Or as a joke? Or was it malice? This comes across as something unambitious and "simple" in terms of implementation and technical quality and depth, more like a game dev tutorial or an experiment. It’s a classic case of a developer prioritizing the low effort needed to get a game listed on Steam over the actual delivery of a technically sound or compelling product. Whatever is needed to hammer out something "good" enough for Steam Direct self-publishing. The graphics here are particularly awful, placeholders and incredibly low quality garbage backdrops, so bad that it actually stands out as one of the worst looking games on Steam. Quite an acc…