Humble Bundle Thread

I just finished Planet of the Eyes, it takes around an hour and a half. I thought it was very good. Very much inspired by Limbo. If you like Limbo/Inside you will enjoy it tho.

 
I completely blame the headliner. 

It only being the multiplayer only starter set is the huge bummer of it. 

It's probably NOT the way they wanted it to be, but I've even said this on every survey that Humble as has sent me... the way I look at the monthly is that I'm paying $12 for the headliner and getting some neat throw-ins. 

I'm not looking at it through the "Is everything worth $2?" lens. Because I don't care. Most of them are just going to be +1s anyways. 

But if I can get Mad Max and some stuff for $12? Great.  Rocket league and some games? Awesome.

BLOPS III "We don't want online multiplayer to be dead so we're going to sell you a half game" edition? Nope. 

 
Only game  I can see myself really playing is Starward Rogue, which is about $5ish on Steam right now. Poi is EA and I almost refuse to play those. The Eyes game looks OK, but is bundle fodder....and short...though I can easily play that. Van Helsing Final I own and Jackbox 2 could be OK but not for me. Easily pretty disappointing. BLOPs I already own PS4 so i'm trying to offload mine as well.

Next month's early unlock is excellent.....I will probably keep going but this month was a wash for me easily.

 
From playing through a portion of the first Van Helsing, I thought it was decidedly meh. Too many better Arpgs out on the market today.
SOMA seems to be a good early unlock, but I'm hoping Divinity Original Sin is in a monthly sometime soon.
 
From playing through a portion of the first Van Helsing, I thought it was decidedly meh. Too many better Arpgs out on the market today.
SOMA seems to be a good early unlock, but I'm hoping Divinity Original Sin is in a monthly sometime soon.
Don't we all....that needs to go on better discount. I'm ready to bite around the $12 mark!

 
At least it didn't have a walking simulator. Something bronightable > walking sim any day of the week.
Played RAM for 20 minutes. Initial impressions are that it's a very generic FPS with its only unique feature being the visual effects when people hurt you. They look cool, but there doesn't seem to be anything else that sets it apart. I can't find any way to access a scoreboard or a list of controls, and all players are labeled as "Player #".

I'm going to try to plan a backup game before the event starts. RAM should've been a humble monthly original, not a featured game.

 
Played RAM for 20 minutes. Initial impressions are that it's a very generic FPS with its only unique feature being the visual effects when people hurt you. They look cool, but there doesn't seem to be anything else that sets it apart. I can't find any way to access a scoreboard or a list of controls, and all players are labeled as "Player #".

I'm going to try to plan a backup game before the event starts. RAM should've been a humble monthly original, not a featured game.
If its even available to DL for those of us who got in the monthly by then.

Pick something unplayed or not for a long time for the backup though.

 
I'm amazed that this month somehow managed to be worse than last month, which I skipped. Figured they wouldn't underwhelm us two months in a row with such a useless headliner.

CoD Starter Pack is worthless to me until the upgrade either gets a MSRP drop or hits 75%+ off.

Final Cut is a waste because the free keys for owning all 3 games promo (99% of us own the first two because it's been bundled to hell and back) is still around, and VH3 will inevitably be bundled (especially now that Final Cut has).

Jackbox 2, like Spoder pointed out is useless unless you have a good set-up for streaming. Almost better off getting a console version. Not to mention it's worse than Jackbox 1 imo.

The rest seem like games that would appear in regular Humble $1-tiers, maybe BTAs for Poi and Starward Rogue, and don't even hold up to the leftover indie scraps from last month aside from Cthulhu.

Like someone else said, I think CoD got the lion's share of the money this month. It's obvious enough with the big advertisement on the monthly page for the upgrade through the Humble Store that, for the moment, they're in bed together. Thanks Craptivision.

Edit: Current monthly hate aside, 90% chance I'll sub for SOMA. It's their best headliner quality-wise since Rocket League and their best headliner value-wise since Mad Max or maybe even ARK.

 
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Don't we all....that needs to go on better discount. I'm ready to bite around the $12 mark!
I honestly got tired of waiting and just bought it on Xbone with Bingbux a few weeks ago when it was $15 since it has couch co-op. I'm sure it'll be bundled eventually in some high-tier like Dragon Commander.

RAM should've been a humble monthly original, not a featured game.
This. Ludosity has a good track record (Ittle Dew, Card City, MURI) but if it was an indie game jam result, it might as well have been sponsored by Humble or something rather than whatever the fuck sawing cat simulator we got.

 
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At least it didn't have a walking simulator. Something bronightable > walking sim any day of the week.
Nah, it totally depends on the games themselves.

If its something that we only bro-night for a half hour compared to something like Stanley Parable which is a very cool experience or even something like Gone Home, which I didnt necessarily rate highly, but at least it kept me playing, I'll take the "walking sim" over the game I never even bother with again after 20 minutes.

I totally agree if its a bro night game that we actually play and get something out of, but there are some really good games that people write off as "walking simulators".

 
Played RAM for 20 minutes. Initial impressions are that it's a very generic FPS with its only unique feature being the visual effects when people hurt you. They look cool, but there doesn't seem to be anything else that sets it apart. I can't find any way to access a scoreboard or a list of controls, and all players are labeled as "Player #".

I'm going to try to plan a backup game before the event starts. RAM should've been a humble monthly original, not a featured game.
That is disappointing. The screenshots make it look pretty cool. The generic arena shooter part is a bit of a given but generic arena shooter with tron look could have been interesting.

 
SOMA might convince me to buy one of these things for the first time.  Previous unlocks didn't interest me (or I owned them) but at least SOMA is wishlisted so it makes sense.

 
ughhhh this is the first monthly i really hated. cancelling because i only ever want 1-3 of the games they offer anyway and never in a rush (watch next months bundle be full of $30 VNs straight from my wishlist)

 
surprised at the interest in poi here as it looked very cheap to me. is it more fun than it looks?

also if you havent played van helsing yet and enjoy arpgs id highly recommend van helsing, the first one at least had a lot of personality. 

 
Nah, it totally depends on the games themselves.

If its something that we only bro-night for a half hour compared to something like Stanley Parable which is a very cool experience or even something like Gone Home, which I didnt necessarily rate highly, but at least it kept me playing, I'll take the "walking sim" over the game I never even bother with again after 20 minutes.

I totally agree if its a bro night game that we actually play and get something out of, but there are some really good games that people write off as "walking simulators".
Yeah, cuz we bronighted Epic Showdown and I'd be epically pissed if that was in a Monthly.

 
Upon closer inspection, Poi looks interesting, but it seems like future Gala bait. For reference, look at what happened to Nova-111. 

 
If you grew up with an N64 you should play Poi just for the hell of it. Hits ya right in the nostalgia... kind of. You can see what they were trying to do, but it never quite captures the magic. Would rather just play Banjo Kazooie or Mario 64.

 
If you grew up with an N64 you should play Poi just for the hell of it. Hits ya right in the nostalgia... kind of. You can see what they were trying to do, but it never quite captures the magic. Would rather just play Banjo Kazooie or Mario 64.
It seems to give the clone vibe that I got from Oceanhorn, which was heavily inspired by Zelda. It was interesting how Oceanhorn skipped a monthly and went straight to $1 bundle tier.

 
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Glad I didn't have these yet because of crappy sales

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Man, what a crappy monthly. Back to back months of really mediocre bundles. Van Helsing is whatever, not much interest in adding yet another arpg to my backlog. Only game that really piques my interest is Poi. Of course I'm gonna get suckered into next month, though, because I can't turn down Soma being in the bundle. 12 bucks for that alone is good, given the prices it's been on sale, hopefully there are unlocks closer to the quality of Wasteland 2 and Nuclear Throne in the next bundle. 

 
RAM should've been a humble monthly original, not a featured game.
I agree.

I can't really add much to what has already been said, but I do want to reiterate the point to Humble (cause I know they are totally reading this thread), that they really need to take care to diversify a bit:

- Jackbox (while the quality is undeniably high) is pretty much multiplayer only

- RAM is multiplayer only

- The headliner -- BLOPS III -- is multiplayer only (unless you pony up $15)

That's kind of a bummer.

Poi, Planet Eyes, and Starward Rogue are all decent choices. None were on my wishlist, but I would play any of them. Van Helsing is a really nice addition, but it didn't work out for me so I can't be too upset about it.

But come on... multiplayer only stuff is really sketchy on PC.

 
I just finished Van Helsing Final Cut, sucky, suck, suck (not the game itself, its pretty good)....

...but I can't pass up SOMA.  Its the only Frictional Games game I haven't played.  

In fact I might pay early.

 
Can't believe I'm the first one to say it. Everyone who purchased Van Helsing FC, we thank you for your bundlegods sacrifice.

Still didn't subscribe. Eat it, Humble!

 
I've spent about 6 hours with Starward Rogue. I like it.

If you enjoy shmups/bullet hell and games like Binding of Isaac, then you want to give this one a shot. It's a rogue-like game, so you move from room to room, simultaneously shooting and solving puzzles, but the levels are randomized. There's loot, upgrades, familiars, and hidden stuff. 

The nice part is that it's user friendly -- everything is explained fairly well. Also, if you're like me and you don't enjoy frustrating games, you can dial things down to normal or easy and it's very playable.

I'm trying to find gems in this questionable bundle, and this is one, in my opinion.

 
Man, what a crappy monthly. Back to back months of really mediocre bundles. Van Helsing is whatever, not much interest in adding yet another arpg to my backlog. Only game that really piques my interest is Poi. Of course I'm gonna get suckered into next month, though, because I can't turn down Soma being in the bundle. 12 bucks for that alone is good, given the prices it's been on sale, hopefully there are unlocks closer to the quality of Wasteland 2 and Nuclear Throne in the next bundle.
Liked post after reading first sentence... quickly retracted after reading 'Soma worth $12 on its own.'

 
This is only my third monthly and no complaints so far. I'm guessing it will take another four or five before I start hating them?

 
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I've spent about 6 hours with Starward Rogue. I like it.

If you enjoy shmups/bullet hell and games like Binding of Isaac, then you want to give this one a shot. It's a rogue-like game, so you move from room to room, simultaneously shooting and solving puzzles, but the levels are randomized. There's loot, upgrades, familiars, and hidden stuff.

The nice part is that it's user friendly -- everything is explained fairly well. Also, if you're like me and you don't enjoy frustrating games, you can dial things down to normal or easy and it's very playable.

I'm trying to find gems in this questionable bundle, and this is one, in my opinion.
I haven't tried it yet, but it immediately struck me as the best looking game of the bunch. However, based on the developer, I'm sure it'll be bundled 100 more times for less.

I'll probably give them one more chance, since I've been looking to pick up SOMA anyway. Fool me once...

 
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I'm guessing a new Humble Indie bundle. It's been a while since the last one.

EDIT: Foxhack'd

 
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Survive This Bundle

$1 Tier

Tharsis

Savage Lands

Kholat

$BTA

Space Engineers

Rust

Shelter 2

$14

Planetbase

Excellent bundle, espc the top 2 tiers.

 
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Out of all this I only really want Shelter 2 though and Tharsis which looks neat. Kholat could be alright.....pretty much anything not EA. I really don't like EA games.

 
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