Humble Bundle, the marketplace that raises money for charity while bringing you a collection of great items, is back with a new offer. This time around, you can grab seven Editors' Choice-winning games, along with two coupons for IGN, for as little as $16. Separately purchased, the games would cost $224, so that's quite a steal.
Each of the games featured scored either a 9 or 10 when IGN reviewed them, earning coveted Editors' Choice awards. If you're familiar with the games, that shouldn't surprise you, as they're highly reviewed everywhere. For my money, the biggest get is easily Spiritfarer due to its head-on handling of life and dealing with the loss of friends and family. It's hard to play the game and not be changed after.
As always, with Humble Bundle, you can name your own price, though the minimum is $16. You can always choose to spend more to give more to charity. And in this particular bundle, if you want to send as much as possible to the two charities this benefits (Girls Who Code and Extra Life / Children's Miracle Network Hospitals), you can reduce the publisher cut to $0. That's a generous option! Here's what you get:
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
(Credit: Humble Bundle)If you like a good detective story and RPGs, Disco Elysium is tailor-made for you. While you won't get much combat in this game, you will get a unique world backed by a full suite of voice acting—including the 24 parts of your brain you'll need to debate. Yes, it makes complete sense in context.
Wildermyth
(Credit: Humble Bundle)Wildermyth is another RPG, but this time, it benefits from both a character-driven story and procedural generation. That latter detail adds to replayability, as you can not only pursue multiple different stories, but those stories can change based on who is in your party and your actions.
Chivalry 2
(Credit: Humble Bundle)Sometimes, you want to hack, slash, and button mash. Others, you may want something that requires skill and timing. And for the days when you want a bit of both, Chivalry 2 exists. It's a medieval-era action game that'll see you battling it out with up to 64 other players. Don't miss out on brawl mode, where you can use improved weapons like a rolling pin, a chair, or even a fish.
Spiritfarer - Farewell Edition
(Credit: Humble Bundle)Billing itself as a "cozy little management game about dying," Spiritfarer is both familiar and drastically different from most games. You play the latest Spiritfarer, taking over from Charon and helping spirits move on to the next part of the afterlife. But while the mechanics revolve around resource management, crafting supplies, growing food, and improving your ship, the game deals with the realities of life. Some people you'll meet will make you love them, others you'll hate, and more will make you hate yourself for missing them. That's life.
Grime
(Credit: Humble Bundle)What do you get when you combine Metroid, Souls, and the ability to literally absorb your enemies to form your body? Grime. But if you think Souls-like games are too difficult, don't fret too much: this one at least lets you keep some of your progress when you die. It's not much, but in a game of kill or be killed, every little bit helps.
The Forgotten City
(Credit: Humble Bundle)It's an absolute triumph that what started as a Skyrim mod became a full-fledged beloved game. In Forgotten City, you explore a Roman City under protection from the Gods. If anyone breaks the Golden Rule, all its inhabitants are turned into gold statues. What constitutes breaking the rule? You have to figure it out yourself. And if you break it, you can trigger a time loop to start again. But at least you get to keep everything you earned during the last loop. If you played the Skyrim Mod, this edition is still worth grabbing, as plenty of changes happened in the conversion to a standalone game.
Paradise Killer
(Credit: Humble Bundle)Another detective game in the bundle, Paradise Killer is inspired by Japanese Detective games like Ace Attorney. This one has you take control of Lady Love Dies, an immortal "investigation freak" who had been exiled from Paradise 3 millions of years ago. You only get to return to solve a crime no one else can figure out. You'll discover along the way that this island of paradise is anything but paradise—but I don't want to explore any of the surprises beyond that. It's a great addition to the bundle.
Besides the games, this Humble Bundle also includes a $10 gift card to the IGN store and three months of IGN Plus. But this bundle is only on offer for the next 21 days. So don't miss out if you want some guaranteed great games for a pretty low price.
(Disclosure: Humble Bundle and IGN are owned by Ziff Davis, PCMag's parent company.)