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REVIEW
Basketball Legends is a remote-control free-throw timekiller.
Slovak casual studio Inlogic ports another phone-shaped arcade sports game to LG webOS. Free, brief, and exactly what the genre tag promises.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 2 MIN READ
Basketball Legends
INLOGIC SOFTWARE S.R.O.
OUR SCORE
5.2
LG
★ 5.0
PRICE
Free
Basketball Legends is exactly the kind of game the LG Content Store exists to host — free, tiny, single-mechanic, and built by a studio that has shipped this template across half the smart-TV market. Inlogic Software has been quietly porting casual arcade titles to Samsung Tizen and LG webOS for years, and you can recognise the house style in the first ten seconds: a stock stadium, a polygonal shooter, a power meter, and one button to press.
The game does the one thing it sets out to do. You take free throws, the angle and power meters cycle, you press the button, and the ball either drops through the net or it doesn’t. The Magic Remote handles this fine. After about five minutes you will have seen every element the build has to offer and will be deciding whether the score-chase loop is enough to bring you back tomorrow. For most people, it won’t be — and that’s not really a criticism so much as an honest description of the genre.
What’s missing is the obvious living-room hook. A two-player hot-seat mode would turn this from a solo timekiller into a couch game worth keeping installed. Without it, Basketball Legends sits in the same category as every other Inlogic webOS title: a free download, a brief diversion, and a perfectly competent example of TV-store casual gaming with nothing to particularly recommend it over the next one in the list.
Basketball Legends is the kind of LG Content Store title you launch once, beat your own score in five minutes, and forget.
FEATURES
Basketball Legends is a single-mechanic free-throw arcade game from Inlogic Software, the Banská Bystrica studio that has shipped dozens of similar casual titles across Samsung Tizen and LG webOS. You aim, you time the release, the ball goes in or it doesn't. That's the entire game loop.
Controls map to the LG Magic Remote's directional pad — left/right adjusts angle, a button press fires the shot, and a power meter cycles for distance. There is no campaign, no roster, no licensed players, no career mode. A high-score counter and a streak multiplier are the only progression systems on offer.
The presentation is generic stadium-stock — crowd loop, polygonal player model, scoreboard overlay. Audio is a short ambient track and a single swoosh sample. No online leaderboards on the webOS build at the time of writing.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Inlogic knows what an LG Content Store casual game needs to be — small download, no account, no cost, launches in under five seconds. Basketball Legends meets that brief cleanly. Magic Remote controls are responsive enough, the timing window is forgiving, and there are no intrusive ads or upsells inside the experience.
As a thing to hand the kids during a commercial break or to noodle with for ninety seconds while a stream buffers, it works. The genre is "TV-store casual time-filler" and this is a competent example of it.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
Almost everything beyond the core mechanic. There is no two-player local mode despite the obvious couch-game opportunity, no tournament structure, no unlockables, no court variety past the default arena. After ten minutes you have seen everything the game has.
No leaderboards — local or online — means the high-score chase has no social hook. The visual fidelity is meaningfully behind what LG webOS hardware can render in 2026, and the same engine assets appear across most of Inlogic's TV catalogue.
CONCLUSION
Basketball Legends is a free LG Content Store install with a five-minute ceiling. Worth a try if you want a casual remote-control arcade game and have nothing else queued. Not worth seeking out, and not a substitute for anything you would call a basketball game. Inlogic's ports are reliable for what they are; the question is whether you need one.