The Humble Store is having a huge birthday sale, tons of stuff for insanely cheap

Shadowground and Shadowground Survivor does not work on Arch / Chakra. I do not remember why, but I tried to make it work three or four months agi without success.

Just bought Retribution, for 7,49 it's a great deal.

@harfield: I forced "Shadowground Survivor" game to work using 'ldd' (if I remember correctly) command and downloading tons of libraries or so. Of course under Ubuntu, but maybe it helps U.

Shadowground and Shadowground Survivor does not work on Arch / Chakra. I do not remember why, but I tried to make it work three or four months agi without success.

You need install only missing library. After that games should work fine. Tested on Manjaro (arch based), openmandriva (notebook) and ubuntu 16.10.

Funny thing is, I already own almost everything that's on sale. The stuff I remotely care about, at least.

Beware of the titles that show up on Humble Bundle after selecting Linux as a platform but don't actually have a Steam Linux package, if you care for this kind of thing (e.g. Shadowgrounds series are available for Linux DRM free but not via Steam).

I've tried almost everything on Chakra (Arch fork) and it didn't work. Two years ago I managed to get it to work providing all the missing libs, but sound didn't work. Wine version works fine, but there is some random crash. I believe Shadowground and Survivor can't be qualified as Linux games ; there is an old crappy port that takes ages and a lot of personal effort to make it run, that's not enough for a comercial product. I can expect this kind of work from an open source project or a mod/fork (Diaspora - Freespeace 2 for example), but not from a product I've paid for. Experiences like that turns people against gaming on linux, we need to erase the linux badge from this kind of games. Just saying...

Dirt 3 complete edition for Free currently - not exactly a linux game but runs under wine afaik.


Last edited by Schattenspiegel on 11 November 2016 at 2:08 am UTC

Dirt 3 complete edition for Free currently - not exactly a linux game but runs under wine afaik.

I also saw this on /r/gamedeals

Vertiginous Golf is actually really fun. Me and a buddy picked it up when it was free on Steam a while back. If you like mini golf and have someone to play with, it's worth the price.

Disagree, the level select 3D room feels really shoddy and other Quality Control seems lacking in other areas.


Last edited by ElectricPrism on 11 November 2016 at 3:54 am UTC

Beware of the titles that show up on Humble Bundle after selecting Linux as a platform but don't actually have a Steam Linux package, if you care for this kind of thing (e.g. Shadowgrounds series are available for Linux DRM free but not via Steam).

Funnily enough, the other way round to your comment.. I already have these on Steam (as Windows/Mac titles which I can't played under Linux)... Thinking to buy them *again*, so I get the Linux DRM free goodness that actually works on Linux.

Having scanned through the games, ordering the list by biggest discount, there are plenty of games listed which are not at optimal discount level, i.e. I've picked them up cheaper on other sales.

Here's a few that I've spotted and like the game and the price.... but I own most of them already (not this one *)

FTL: Faster Than Light (DRM free + Steam) -70% £1.79
Trine: Enchanted Edition (DRM free + Steam) -85% £1.49
Trine 2: Complete Story (DRM free + Steam) -85% £2.09
Prison Architect (DRM free + Steam) -75% £4.99 *
Tomb Raider (Steam) -70% £4.49

Pick and choose, and you'll get some juicy morsels.

GOG also has a big sale, I am tempted by Anodyne (ca. $4, DRM-free, made in flash though (wth)), got a nice review at RPS. I got Icewind Dale EE, which I loved as a kid, and it is great - I really like the Story Mode difficulty setting, I'm not in it for the combat really! Check out all GoG deals like this:

Linux games on sale at gog

The corresponding listing is more difficult and buggy at humble store I find, which is sad, since I prefer humble otherwise - nice to give 10% to FSF :)


Last edited by buenaventura on 11 November 2016 at 7:44 am UTC

GOG also has a big sale, I am tempted by Anodyne

I have Anodyne on Steam - it was fun while it worked, but I haven't been able to run it for the last two years (SteamOS, Debian, Arch...). No idea when exactly it stopped working or how to fix it - also don't know if the GOG version is also broken, but I think you can get a refund if the game doesn't work and they are not able to help you fix it.

[edit] From what I see, Anodyne on GOG does not list Linux as supported platform.


Last edited by pb on 11 November 2016 at 12:40 pm UTC

I just bought Lumo on a Steam sale, and have been happily reliving my isometric youth with what turns out to be a truly great game in the isometric platformer tradition. Now I got Dawn of War II solely on the recommendation of this website. I hope it delivers :)

I have Anodyne on Steam - it was fun while it worked, but I haven't been able to run it for the last two years (SteamOS, Debian, Arch...). No idea when exactly it stopped working or how to fix it - also don't know if the GOG version is also broken, but I think you can get a refund if the game doesn't work and they are not able to help you fix it.

[edit] From what I see, Anodyne on GOG does not list Linux as supported platform.

I see! Strange, in the humble store there seems to be a linux version done separately (SWF instead of AIR app) - there it is full price though currently.

I don't buy from Humble Bundle any more. I purchased the the Humble Monthly a few weeks back when they gave away Grim Dawn (works flawlessly under Wine), Slime Ranchers, Hotline Miami 2, etc. The game that was most interesting to me (outside of Grim Dawn) was HM2 since I already finished the first one, but they refused to give me a Steam code.

They gave me the regular DRM free download, but no Steam code because they said it's not available in my region. I'm in Australia, and I know people can activate Steam codes for the game fine in Australia - no VPN required. But whether or not I can activate the game is my problem. I paid the same money as everyone else, so I should get the same deal as everyone else. Heck, I was even using an IP in the USA, but it didn't matter since the account was created with an Australian IP.

So I opened a support ticket, went back and forth with them a bunch of times, and they said they have rules that say they are not allowed to give Steam codes for some games to people in certain countries, even if they only suspect they might be in those countries. I looked through the Terms of Service to try and find out what the support guy was talking about... didn't see anything. So I asked about this and he basically didn't care and essentially said "doesn't matter, not happening". Apparently Humble Bundle think it's cool to discriminate.

Screw 'em. I'll just get whatever I want from Steam (with a VPN or via SteamBitShop.com if need be). I've already unsubscribed from their mailing list that I've been on for the last four years, and have no intention of going back to purchase from them - sale or not.

I grabbed Dirt 3 for free, looks like is working well on wine and the 360 pad should work too.
I'm just wondering how can they give for free such piece of game? I would really like to know! :D


Last edited by Redneck on 12 November 2016 at 8:30 am UTC

AFAIK, Hotline Miami 2 is banned from Australia. Blame your system, not Humble Bundle or Steam.

Then why did they give me the DRM-free version?

Also doesn't explain why didn't they say up front that they wouldn't be giving the Steam key.

Also the developers said, that they don't bite if people from Australia pirate the game, so go for it! :) Sadly Australian game classification system is crazy...

Humble Bundle would be a digital purchase from the US, not Australia. But again, they still gave me a non-Steam version. Why do that if they have a problem with the Australian classification system? And why wouldn't their support team straight up tell me what the problem was?

My guess is that they probably thought there is a chance it might not activate in Australia (which is wrong anyway), so they wanted to save a few bucks on a Steam key. I told them as such, and they didn't deny it.