Well on it's way to raising 5 million dollars, the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality over on itch.io has become a huge success and there's a lot that's been added to it.
Still keeping the minimum purchase at $5, it's absolutely the deal of the year and you're probably not likely to find another deal like it for a very long time. It's ridiculously good and for a honourable cause. There's now, at time of writing 1,509 items included which would usually cost over 8 thousand dollars individually.
Plenty of what's included is available for Linux too, it's incredible. Here's just a few of the latest interesting additions included after it began (some we mentioned elsewhere):
- Celeste
- Hidden Folks
- Hive Time
- JUMPGRID
- Lenna's Inception
- MewnBase
- Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy!
- Odd Realm
- PICO-8
- Sky Rogue
- Steam Marines 2
- The Away Team
- They Bleed Pixels
- Underhero
That's only a small slice of what's been newly included too, a few that jumped out at me. All newly included titles now and in future are automatically added to previous purchases. It's a lot to get through and thankfully they have now added a search bar to the redeem page so you can easily pick out what you want after you grab it.
Each game needs to be added individually from your bundle purchase, so it doesn't overwhelm your library. To help with that, itch do have an open source client. I regularly use it, handy for managing itch games and keeping them nicely up to date.
Be sure to share your personal highlights in the comments and the creators would all probably appreciate a review somewhere if you enjoyed their game. It's crazy to try and go over it all.
See the full bundle here.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Last edited by Cyril on 11 June 2020 at 1:43 pm UTC
This gives me some hope after my disappointments with IGN's store.
Last edited by Mnoleg on 11 June 2020 at 3:14 pm UTC
brokeassben Jun 11, 2020
Quoting: brokeassbenI had multi-factor authentication enabled on my account, wiped the phone with the authenticator on it, and can't find my backup codes. So my itch.io account is now lost forever :(I imagine if you email them, with some kind of proof, they would be quite reasonable about it. You must have some emails somewhere from itch you can dig up to prove ownership.
Quoting: Liam DaweQuoting: brokeassbenI had multi-factor authentication enabled on my account, wiped the phone with the authenticator on it, and can't find my backup codes. So my itch.io account is now lost forever :(I imagine if you email them, with some kind of proof, they would be quite reasonable about it. You must have some emails somewhere from itch you can dig up to prove ownership.
Worked for me with Steam. Give it a try.
I like my Steam library because it gives me sense of real ownership. The games are easy to install, remove, share with family, they will be there when I decide to give some of them another spin 10, 20 years from now. I just don't get the same from others.
Quoting: morbiusitch.io doesn't have a clientIt does: https://itch.io/app. It's open source, does game updates and is generally less broken than Steam.
thoughtfulhippo Jun 11, 2020
Quoting: morbiusI like my Steam library because it gives me sense of real ownership. The games are easy to install, remove, share with family, they will be there when I decide to give some of them another spin 10, 20 years from now. I just don't get the same from others.
I find this an odd sentiment because it is almost exactly opposite of how I feel. Games on itch (and GoG) are guaranteed DRM-free. So I can download them now, back them up and be confident they will still work in 10 - 20 years (assuming I can recreate the environment they need). This to me is what real ownership is.
However, most games on Steam require Steam servers to be running for them to start. Who's to say Steam will be around in 10 - 20 years? So even if you can back them up, it's moot if you can't play them in the future.
This bundle has left me feeling a bit guilty though. I bought it because I was interested in trying Overland and Death&Taxes, but probably would not have bought them for myself. But now two games high on my (Steam) wishlist - Code 7 and Helium Rain - have been added, which I would have happily paid (more) for. Will buy in next Steam sale (only 2 weeks now).
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