Category: Game Reviews
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Empty Epsilon After Actually Playing With a Full Crew
We finally got a full crew together to actually play Empty Epsilon, the open-source bridge simulator — using a stack of repurposed old iMacs running Linux Mint. Here’s how it went, and how to build your own local crew.
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📱 ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile Review — Put Down the Snobbery, Pick Up Your Phone
Right. Before anyone in the comments gets elitist about playing ARK on a phone instead of a $2,000 gaming PC — just hold on a second. This is not a replacement for the PC version. Nobody is saying that. But here’s the thing people seem to forget: the phone in your pocket right now has roughly the…
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Sunkenland Review: ARK Survival with a Life Jacket — Tracy’s Honest Take
Sunkenland I didn’t go looking for this game. I got ambushed at work and asked what I was playing, and somehow ended up recommending it to my boss. That’s probably the most honest endorsement I can give: Sunkenland snuck up on me, and I keep going back to it even when I can’t fully explain…
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If I Could Play Video Games — By Astro
Astro the Lithgeek shop dog answers the most important gaming question of our time: what would he actually play? Spoiler — Pong, and WoW Paladin.
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🕯️ Don’t Starve Review — Edward Gorey Meets Tim Burton, and You’re Going to Die
Picture this: take the dark, scratchy illustrated world of Edward Gorey, hand it to Tim Burton, and ask them to build a survival game together. That’s Don’t Starve. And I mean that as the highest possible compliment. Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. You play as Wilson —…
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Can Your PC Run Crimson Desert? A 2026 Gaming Reality Check for Lithgow Gamers
If your PC sounds like a distressed Servitor every time you fire up a new game, it might be trying to tell you something. Much like the Omnissiah calls upon the faithful to maintain their blessed machines, your gaming rig deserves a proper check-up — and maybe a few new components — before you dive…
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Games I Haven’t Played Yet — But Really, Really Want To
The Honest Disclaimer Right, full transparency before we get into this: I haven’t played any of these. Not a single one. What I have done is watched enough playthroughs, read enough reviews, and spent enough time on Twitch to have Very Strong Opinions about games I technically have no business reviewing. So this isn’t a…
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📱 Mobile Game Ads — We Need to Talk
An opinion piece. Posted on lithgeek.com/blog The Transcript Look, I get it. Free games have to make money somehow. Nobody expects developers to pour months of work into a game and then just give it away out of the goodness of their heart. The free-to-play model exists for a reason and in principle, it makes…
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🎮 Fallout 3 Review — Old Doesn’t Mean Bad, and I’ll Die on This Hill
Right, before anyone says anything — yes, I know it’s old. Yes, I know the graphics are dated. And no, I do not care. Fallout 3 is a brilliant game, and the idea that a title has to be brand new to be worth your time is, frankly, complete nonsense. A good game is a…
