I can't remember when I heard, or even how I heard about Humble Bundle but I am so glad I did. If you like older or indie games then this is the place for you. Well that's the reason I go there, however that's all they used to offer. You now get book bundles, at the time of writing there are 13 days left on the Manga Bundle. They offer mobile phone game bundles (I am not interested in mobile gaming, especially with the way the games have evolved into advert led, in game purchase ideas. I have my PSP still and there is a DS at home I can dig out if I want to play a game on the go).
Humble monthly is a subscription based model on more recent games. So for $12 (about £8) you get a package of games, that range in style tone and are usually always brilliant. I must admit that I don't subscribe. For the time being I just don't have time to play the games I have and another 10 games a month would not help this!
The Humble store is just a games shop with a decent price point on it. So it's worth a look if you are in the market for a new game.
The reason I wanted to write this is for the Humble Bundle section of the site. A range of games that you choose how much to pay for. You heard me correctly, you choose what to pay.
So for instance, this month there are 3 games Human Resource Machine, Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Directors Cut and A Boy and his Blob that you can pay any amount you like for (it's all done in dollars) so for $1 (£0.60) you get these three games. There are 3 more games, Mini Metro, Mushroom 11 and Towerfall Ascension that are available if you pay more than the average. So the longer you wait the higher the average. At the moment it is $5.01. Then finally there is a flat fee item of $10 to also get Evoland 2.
Some of the bundles I have bought in the past have also had artowork packs and sound tracks that you can download. Most games come with a Steam code so it is easy to activate. This month I gifted Mushroom 11 and Towerfall Ascension as I knew I would not get round to playing them, so I might as well share the love as the love only cost me about £3 to start with.
You can also set the sliders to choose where your money goes. So they are broken down between the developers, Charity and then the Humble tip.
It is really easy to do and although you can choose to only pay the minimum if you are on a tight budget, if you are feeling flush and generous then you can pay as much as you like for these games. After all they are worth it! Mini Metro this time round has already grabbed my attention and is just a wonderful game. I am not going to say any more than that for now as it deserves its own review in the not (hopefully) to distant future.
For this bundle the top contributor has paid $70 for the bundle.
Each month it changes and sometimes there will be nothing that interests you. The nice thing is I get an email reminder early on, I check and if I like it I buy it. My steam list of games is huge and I know I won't play half of these, that's why I like to gift a few of them to others through Reddit as it might make someone elses day.
I might not be a top contributor to Humble Bundle, but one day I will save my money to make a purchase of more than the average price, as these guys are doing great work. After writing this I can see this might look like a paid advert, but I promise it's not. I write here because I love the things I write about and I hope that even if someone came knocking at the door asking me to write about something, I would always be truthful, not just write about it being nice because they asked me to. So the reason I chose Humble Bundle is because it allows me the chance to play some great little indie games in Steam for very few $£ which at the moment is really all I have time for or all I can afford. (This is also not meant as a bleeding heart, woo is me type post either.)
So I will stop but just say I will keep looking and using this service because it allows me the chance to play games I would never normally have found.
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