While Humble might supply a number of bundles now, their Humble Indie Bundles are what first put the location on the map. Their 19th went dwell final night time, providing their typical broad and vibrant cross-section of what the indie improvement scene has to supply.
Featuring house journey, train-based puzzling, VR bomb defusal and one of the vital existentially unsettling horror video games ever made, this bundle has just a little one thing for everyone, assuming you’re not an enormous dork like me that routinely buys all the things midway attention-grabbing that crosses your path and already owns two thirds of those.
At the most affordable tier ($1 or extra, in order for you Steam keys), you’ve acquired Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition, a refined model of the broadly well-received Halcyon 6: Station Commander. Inspired by FTL, XCOM and 4x technique video games, you discover the galaxy, collect assets, construct a fleet of ships to command in turn-based fight and bop big space-monsters on the snoot in the event that they get too grumpy.
Mini Metro is a puzzle/administration hybrid with a minimalist subway-map aesthetic. Your aim is to maintain a metropolis’s infrastructure transferring in accelerated real-time, drawing tracks to attach stations as they open and shut and make it possible for individuals are all the time in a position to get the place they should go.
Rakuen is a vibrant JRPG-styled journey a couple of sick younger boy in hospital, coming to phrases along with his personal sickness via exploring a magical world inside a guide. John went and reviewed it last year, and wasn’t too proud to confess that it lowered him to tears, in addition to made him chuckle greater than a bit.
At the center tier (beating the common worth of $5.70 on the time of writing) you get distinctive cooperative puzzle sport Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes. Designed for VR (though nonetheless playable on an everyday monitor), one participant is trapped in a digital room with a ticking time-bomb. The different participant is out in the true world, armed with a reference handbook of various bomb parts. Communication is vital, because the title implies.
Star of the present, although, needs to be SOMA, Frictional’s deeply unsettling first-person horror sport. It’s not practically as jumpscare or monster-heavy as others within the style (particularly now that it features a extra passive playmode the place threats merely menace with their presence, fairly than search to kill you), nevertheless it tells a wonderful darkish sci-fi story that might effectively get underneath your pores and skin.
Lastly within the mid-tier, you’ve acquired Poly Bridge, which is yet one more of these 1000’s of little bridge-building physics puzzle video games impressed by Cryptic Sea’s Bridge Builder manner again within the day. More video games can be added to the mid tier of the bundle subsequent week, too.
Cleverly, they’ve positioned SUPERHOT in its personal particular tier. Thanks to Amazon Prime now offering a monthly bundle of games to Twitch users, many people already personal this glorious and inventive FPS-puzzler, the place time strikes solely if you do, and bullets are supposed to be weaved round with balletic precision. If you need all three tiers of video games it’ll value you $14.
The Humble Indie Bundle 19 is available to buy here.
