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REVIEW
Table Tennis on LG webOS is a passable rally in the living room.
Omshy Inc.'s free ping-pong game for LG TVs delivers the basic stroke-and-return loop with Magic Remote, and not much more.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 2 MIN READ
Table Tennis from Omshy Inc. is the kind of app the LG Content Store quietly does well — a free, light, single-purpose game that turns the Magic Remote into a paddle for ten minutes at a time. There’s no grand ambition here, no monetization scheme to dodge, no live-service treadmill. Point at the screen, time the swing, watch the ball come back. The loop is exactly as deep as the install size suggests.
What lifts it above the lowest tier of webOS casual games is the control mapping. Pointing at the TV to swing a paddle is the obvious fit for the gesture, and Omshy executes it cleanly enough that a first-time player will rally on the opening point. The forgiving timing window is the right design call for a couch game — frustration on point one is how these installs end up uninstalled by point three.
The shape of the thing is also its ceiling. There’s no spin to master, no career to grind, no friend to play against locally or online, and the CPU’s difficulty curve is a single-axis dial of “ball moves faster.” That’s enough for the bored-on-a-Sunday use case and not enough for anything else. It’s a rally-button on the couch — pleasant for a few rounds, thin after the third.
It's a rally-button on the couch — pleasant for a few rounds, thin after the third.
FEATURES
Table Tennis is a casual single-player ping-pong game built for LG webOS televisions. The Magic Remote drives the paddle — point at the screen, time the swing, return the ball. Matches play out to standard table-tennis scoring against a CPU opponent across a handful of difficulty steps.
Presentation is functional rather than ambitious. Fixed third-person camera behind the player paddle, a single table in a single room, simple physics, and a scoreboard. No tournament structure, no career mode, no online matchmaking in the build we tested — the loop is point-against-CPU, end of match, point-against-CPU again.
The app is free with no in-app purchases visible. Install size is small, load times on a 2022-era webOS panel are short, and the game runs at the panel's native frame rate without obvious hitches.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The Magic Remote mapping is the right call. Point-and-swing translates the gesture a player already understands from the physical sport into something a TV remote can actually do, which is more than most casual webOS sports games manage. The timing window is forgiving enough that beginners hit returns on their first match, and the rallies extend long enough to feel like rallies rather than one-shot exchanges.
At free with no ads or paywalls, the price-to-engagement ratio is honest. A ten-minute session before dinner is exactly what this is built for, and it delivers that without friction.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
Depth is the missing piece. CPU difficulty scales by ball speed and angle aggression rather than by smarter shot selection, so once a player finds the timing sweet spot the higher levels stop feeling distinct. There is no spin system worth speaking of, no serve variation beyond direction, and no multiplayer — local or networked — so the ceiling on replay is low.
Polish gaps show in the small places: paddle-on-ball contact sound is thin, the crowd loop is short enough to notice, and animations between points have no acknowledgment of who just scored. A simple celebration animation and a tournament bracket would lift this meaningfully without touching the underlying engine.
CONCLUSION
Table Tennis is a fine free pick for a webOS owner who wants a casual sports game to share with kids or guests for short bursts. Anyone hoping for a Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis on the living-room TV will leave disappointed — this is a coffee-break game, priced and scoped accordingly. Worth a free install; don't expect to come back to it weekly.