We’re not games journalists. Nobody’s paying us to say nice things about anything. We’re the team at Lithgeek — a bunch of genuine gamers and tech nerds in Lithgow, NSW, who build custom gaming PCs for a living.
That’s actually the point. Our business is building computers, not selling advertising. So when we review a game, it’s because someone on our team has actually played it — on hardware we built — and they’ve got real opinions they want to share. Good, bad, and occasionally furious.
You’ll find honest takes on how games run, what specs you actually need, what the hype gets right, and what it gets wrong. No PR copies, no affiliate pressure, no sponsored content. Just gamers talking about games.
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- Empty Epsilon After Actually Playing With a Full CrewWe 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.
- 📱 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 same processing power as a gaming PC from not that long… Read more: 📱 ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile Review — Put Down the Snobbery, Pick Up Your Phone - 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 why. What Tracy Loves About the Game The core concept is… Read more: Sunkenland Review: ARK Survival with a Life Jacket — Tracy’s Honest Take - 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. - 🕯️ 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 — a scientist who gets teleported to a strange, hostile world and… Read more: 🕯️ Don’t Starve Review — Edward Gorey Meets Tim Burton, and You’re Going to Die
