Casual Sport Series: Tennis

Genre: Sports (Tennis)

Players: 1-4 Team Competitive (Local)

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Review:

Casual Sport Series: Tennis is a Tennis game released in 2025 on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. At only $6, it aims to bring players an accessible Tennis game on the cheap.

The visuals here are colorful and look fairly polished, with slightly cartoony-looking 3D characters on 3D courts. The courts themselves don’t have much activity in the stands, and can look a bit flat, and the characters’ behaviors are interchangeable and repetitive, but overall this game looks good. Likewise, the sounds of balls hitting the ground and rackets sound good, and the crowd sounds are decent too. There’s nothing truly out of the ordinary here, but what’s here is good.

The gameplay is surprisingly deep for a game touting itself as casual, with players using face buttons to access five different types of shots – topspin shots, slice shots, flat shots, drop shots, and lobs, with the last two both tied to the X button (one while holding up and one holding down). Players get into position after seeing a small X indicating where the opponent’s shot will land and wind up their shot by holding down the shot button and direction of the shot before the ball gets to them, with a bar appearing on-screen to indicate when to release the button for the best results.

It’s a system that works marvelously well in the game’s tutorial, yet when I played the game itself, it seemed to break down almost immediately, as half the time the game wouldn’t register me pressing a button at all. As a result, the opponent scored goal after goal against me as the ball sailed right past my character.

I would go on to talk about how the many different shot types might confuse the “casual” players this game is looking to attract, but do I even need to? A Tennis game where your shots aren’t even registered half the time is pretty much unplayable. Despite the many things this game gets right, I cannot in good conscience recommend it to anyone.

tl;dr – Casual Sports Series: Tennis aims to provide an accessible and inexpensive Tennis game, but the accessibility is somewhat suspect with the game having players making five different shot types. However, the real deal-breaker here is that the game doesn’t even register your shots half the time. The result is a game that has many fine qualities, but is ultimately unplayable.

Grade: F

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