LG / game / KICKTASTIC
REVIEW
Kicktastic is a five-minute football diversion on the LG remote.
A casual soccer-kicking game built around the webOS Magic Remote, free to install, light enough to play during halftime of the actual match on the same TV.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 2 MIN READ
Kicktastic is the kind of game that exists because every smart-TV platform needs a games shelf and most TV owners want something free their kids can poke at for ten minutes. Bright Data’s casual football-kicking title fills that slot on the LG Content Store. It is not trying to compete with FIFA, eFootball, or anything you’d buy a console for — it is trying to be the small thing you open during halftime of the actual match playing on the same TV.
The kicking mechanic maps cleanly to the Magic Remote, which is the most-cited webOS hardware advantage and the one that genuinely earns its placement here. Aim with the pointer, press to kick, watch the keeper. That is the loop. The visuals are stylised rather than licensed-realistic, and the absence of online multiplayer or a career arc means the game runs out of new territory quickly.
For a free install on a webOS TV, this is a reasonable five-minute diversion and a fair use of the games-shelf slot. It is not the reason anyone picks LG over Samsung or Roku, and the lack of a progression system means it falls off the rotation within a week. Worth a try; not worth a return visit.
Kicktastic is the kind of webOS game that justifies its install by being free, small, and over before you get bored.
FEATURES
Kicktastic is a casual football-kicking game from Bright Data, distributed free on the LG Content Store. The core loop is a penalty-style kick mechanic — line up the shot, time the swing, and try to beat the keeper. Magic Remote pointer input drives aim; a button press triggers the kick.
The presentation is stylised rather than simulation-grade. No FIFA licensing, no career mode, no online multiplayer hooks visible. This is a single-screen arcade game built for the living-room remote rather than a controller.
As a free webOS game it sits in the same shelf as the lightweight casual titles that ship on every smart-TV platform — designed to be opened once or twice rather than committed to.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The Magic Remote input fits the kick mechanic well. Pointer-and-click maps to "aim and shoot" more naturally than directional-pad navigation, which is the same observation that lifts Twitch and other webOS apps above their Tizen and Roku equivalents.
Free, no signup, no obvious paywall on install. For a TV game played in spare moments — kids in the room, halftime of an actual match — the friction-to-fun ratio is reasonable.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The design ceiling is low. There is no career, no progression system worth tracking, and no online element to give the kicking loop longevity. After a session or two the mechanic has shown everything it has.
Bright Data is not a name carried over from major mobile game studios, and the LG webOS games shelf as a whole gets updated infrequently — expect the version on the store to be the version you play forever.
CONCLUSION
Kicktastic is a fine free download for an LG TV owner who wants a five-minute football diversion their kids can pick up without a tutorial. It is not a reason to choose webOS over another TV platform, and it is not the game that pulls you back next week. Install it for the casual session, expect nothing more, move on.