The Humble Indie Bundle

[Scubacarrot]

There is this thing called the Humble Indie Bundle. It is an initiative that is set out to help Charity (EFF and Child's Play, this time around) and promote Indie Game Developers (Indie Games are games that are not "published" by a major company, like EA or Activision or something like that, Minecraft is an Indie Game, for example.)

The premise of the idea is that you can pay what you want for the games, and you can split the money how you like, between the game developers, the charity and the Humble Indie Bundle company itself. So you can pay anything from 1 cent (although that would be pretty scummy, Humble would not make the money back that it takes to host the games on their servers even) to whatever, and you can give everything to charity, to developers, or just split how you want to. If you pay more than 1 dollar you get Steam Keys, which allows you to also download the games from Steam, for achievements and easy access , although you are not obliged to use steam! The games are also cross platform among PC, Linux and Mac, and are fully DRM free.

Currently going on is the Fifth Humble Indie Bundle, and the games included are:

LIMBO, a side-scroller adventure game with an unique graphic style and setting, very grim and cool:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c8NhpyO413Y/TMJ4MhslDOI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/bIFoLCSds8U/s1600/limbo-spider.jpg

Psychonauts, an action-adventure game with a TON of humor.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a Horror game, that is apparantly very scary(and good), I have not played it.

Superbrothers: Swords and Sworcery EP, an adventure game in an interesting choice for style, and apparantly a really good story, haven't played it either

The last game you only get if you pay more than the average, which is at time of writing $7.25, but it really is probably the real gem of this Bundle:

Bastion, an Action RPG with great gameplay and graphic's style, and probably the best narrator in anything, ever. The music is amazing as well.

http://media.gamer.nl/site/dump/20110719203826-bastion_e32011_0002.jpg

You also get all of the games soundtracks for free in FLAC and MP3 format.

All these great games, and you can pay what you want, I strongly suggest everyone that is even remotely interested in this sort of thing lays down a few bucks for this, you really can't go wrong, and these are some pretty amazing games. I already owned three of the games, and can say of those three that they are worth having. Add to that the fact that you can help charity!

The link to the website is http://www.humblebundle.com/

Edited June 8, 2012 by Pandora
Changed oversize images to links

[Scubacarrot]

Updating this because the Humble Bundle is updated, you now get three more games!

Lone Survivor, a Point and Click/adventure/survival game.

Braid, a puzzle/platformer with time-travel elements.

Super Meat Boy, a very cool platformer, possibly the best platformer ever made. (Yes, I'm calling you out, Mario.)

http://supermeatboy.com/_media/meatboy/image/1269147403.jpg

You get these games if you pay more than the average, which is at time of writing $8.13, you still get all of the games listed above and all the extras and stuff. If you already have bought the bundle, you get these as well.

I strongly suggest everyone that reads this to check it out, you can pay what you want! And it helps charity, as well as independant game developers!

The bundle has already raised more than 3.7 million dollars, and over 460 thousand bundles are sold!

The offer lasts for a little more than 6 days at time of writing, the website is Here.

Edited June 8, 2012 by Pandora
Changed oversized images to links

[simonjedi]

Tossed in $20, thinking of putting in more. Even though already have Psychonauts It's a amazing deal.

If you pay less than $1 then I'm afraid you're a bit of a shit to be honest.

[Scubacarrot]

Yup! You are kind of silly, to be honest, if you don't pay more than the average.

[simonjedi]

I think they actually lose money if you pay less than $5.00

[Scubacarrot]

I think they actually lose money if you pay less than $5.00

I have read numbers a while ago, if you paid less than a dollar or something, it would not be worth it for them to put on their servers bandwith wise, with seven games and the soundtracks, I guess it would be a bit more now. But of course they take this into account, and since the average is well above it, it's all good

[Combee]

Wow, this is a great deal! I highly recommend Amnesia: The Dark Descent, played it with my friends at night with the lights off and it scared the megabloks out of us