Indie game bundles

Three indie game bundles going on at the moment:

Humble Bundle

I recommend this one particularly for Torchlight and for the Shatter soundtrack.

Indie Royale

This contains an exclusive localisation of a doujin game called Bunny Must Die! which is a 2D platformer, among other fine games.

Bundle In A Box

This contains Space Giraffe, which I reviewed a few years ago. It's a great little shoot-em-up, very different. Totally immersive because it requires you to use senses you migth have forgotten even existed.

They are all pay-what-you-want, some allow you to donate to charity.

Green Man Gaming launches with 1p games

There's a new PC game digital download service available, the site is called Green Man Gaming. Their special gimmick is that you can buy games via their site, download and play them through a special app, then trade them in for store credit.

This means you always have to play the game through their client (called capsule) and I suppose that also means that playing offline must be impossible? I don't know.

I do know that they have some special offers for the launch of the site; certain games are going for only 1 penny. The games are:

Darwinia, High School Dreams, NecroVisioN: Lost Company, Uplink, World of Goo.

Now, I already owned Darwinia and World of Goo, and they are pretty good games. I especially like Darwinia! (note that World Of Goo was also available in the Humble Indie Bundle from Wolfire the other day... DRM free! That offer is still available for the next few hours!)

I just bought Uplink and it's pretty interesting. It's pretty much the way that hacking is depicted in films. You have an account and a server and some software, you get missions to break into remote servers and do stuff, delete all traces of your visit, and get your reward and reputation. Use the money to buy new software and servers, etc. If you get caught, you might get fined or have your server confiscated, or get put in prison.

It's got retro-futuristic interfaces and cute little password breakers that decode one character at a time, and percentage bars to show you how close authority is to catching up with you, giving you that cosy Hollywood-fiction feeling. Sweet!

I would feel far too cautious about handing over my card details to Green Man Gaming since I had never heard of them and the offer sounds too good to be true, but I have seen this promoted on some mainstream news sites so I am inclined to believe that this company is above board.

The Humble Indie Bundle

http://www.wolfire.com/humble

This is a really good deal. As in, financially good. Ethically good. Diversity good.

You get award-winning games and you give money to charity. Cross platform. DRM free. As much as you want. The money is divided any way you like.

The games are: World of Goo, Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru and Penumbra Overture.

I already owned World Of Goo and Gish through some deals on Steam but I put in $10 anyway with the full donation to charity just because it's nice idea.