Humble Bundle has jumped in to help Ukraine now too, with a pretty amazing bundle full of games and 100% goes to charity. Launched late last night, it's already hit over $3 million.
The violent and unlawful invasion in Ukraine is taking a tragic toll—displacing people, devastating families, and creating an urgent need for food, water, supplies, shelter, and safety. To help out how we can, we’ve joined forces with game creators, book publishers, and software makers around the globe for a bundle 100% dedicated to supporting the victims and refugees from Ukraine during this crisis.
100% of the proceeds will go to Razom for Ukraine, International Rescue Committee, International Medical Corps, and Direct Relief. Support vital humanitarian crisis relief efforts for the people of Ukraine today.
Humble Bundle
Just some of what you can find includes:
- Amnesia: Rebirth
- Book of Demons
- Kerbal Space Program
- Metro Exodus
- Satisfactory
- Slay the Spire
- Spyro Reignited Trilogy
- The Long Dark
- Tooth and Tail
- Wargrove
See the full bundle for more.
Remember when you could give 100% to charity on every bundle? :D
Remember when "pay what you want" meant "minimum 1$" not "minimum 30$" ?
Last edited by toor on 19 March 2022 at 12:44 pm UTC
They really are a shell of their former self at this point. Even with this big of a bundle and for 100% charity, it's just... mediocre for what they're asking.
Kinda wanted to donate at first, then I saw that starting amount is $40 and it has less everything in terms of quantity and things that interest me compared to itch's, which I've already paid for. Much as I want to donate, I'll have to skip - that minimal amount is too much for me and even if I earmarked next month's discretionary spending, I can't really justify it with that kind of contents (mainly because itch's was just much better).
They really are a shell of their former self at this point. Even with this big of a bundle and for 100% charity, it's just... mediocre for what they're asking.
1, it's for charity, and 2, even if the games are worse, many would prefer steam keys.
I get my Steam Deck on Monday, so the steam keys are worth far more than any other PC key or even DRM-free download.
Interesting.
So we have a bundle dedicated to charity and the "discussion" starts with bashing Humble Bundle and people feeling compelled to tell, why they are not donating.
Interesting.
There are other ways to donate, so being critical about Humble Bundle doesn't mean not donating at all. itch.io ended their bundle yesterday, but as always, charities accept also direct donations if you actually want to donate instead of essentially buying games (Humble Bundle being the party that is actually donating).
So we have a bundle dedicated to charity and the "discussion" starts with bashing Humble Bundle and people feeling compelled to tell, why they are not donating.If were you, I'd read again the comments.
Interesting.
Slay the Spire: quite influential rogue lite card game
Drawful 2: If you have friends, try this one out (great thing is that phones are used as controllers, so non gamers can also play)
Superhot: The time moves only when you move shooter. If you have ever wanted to be in action movie, try this one out.
Broken Age: This one is quite enjoyable adventure game.
System Shock: I have only played the original. It's basically sci-fi FPS RPG from time when good conventions where still in bit of a flux. The enhanced edition in the bundle should fix lot of the issues.
Hexologic: Enjoyable puzzle game. Even more so if you're not totally allergic to math.
Last edited by Anza on 20 March 2022 at 1:24 pm UTC
It's a full charity bundle, completely different to normal bundles and they've always done this for them. Otherwise, people will just pay the $1 to get a bunch of Steam keys to resell.Remember when you could give 100% to charity on every bundle? :D
Remember when "pay what you want" meant "minimum 1$" not "minimum 30$" ?
So we have a bundle dedicated to charity and the "discussion" starts with bashing Humble Bundle and people feeling compelled to tell, why they are not donating.More and more people just come to complain about anything I've noticed.
Interesting.
So we have a bundle dedicated to charity and the "discussion" starts with bashing Humble Bundle and people feeling compelled to tell, why they are not donating.
Interesting.
There are other ways to donate, so being critical about Humble Bundle doesn't mean not donating at all. itch.io ended their bundle yesterday, but as always, charities accept also direct donations if you actually want to donate instead of essentially buying games (Humble Bundle being the party that is actually donating).
This is being critical for the sake of being critical and it's pretty damn sad.
There are other ways to donate, so being critical about Humble Bundle doesn't mean not donating at all. itch.io ended their bundle yesterday, but as always, charities accept also direct donations if you actually want to donate instead of essentially buying games (Humble Bundle being the party that is actually donating).This. I might have gotten the bundle if it had had a cheaper option and/or more games that actually interest me, but I’ve already made a direct donation to the Red Cross that was 100% matched by my government, so anything more I give to this kind of fundraiser will need to actually be appealing to me as a purchase. This one isn’t, for me, but of course it’s good that they are contributing in any way.
And since donating to charity is tax-deductible (where I live at least), I can essentially give more support for the same personal cost by using traditional channels rather than this kind of campaign, so I have no qualms considering this bundle as a product and personal purchase first and foremost. If my chief concern were to contribute to the cause as much as I can, I would look elsewhere.
So bottom line, I’m glad that companies are making this kind of bundle to entice people who wouldn’t straight up donate otherwise, but I agree that a $50 minimum is going to turn off a lot of folks right off the bat. Multiple tiers would have been nice.
Is there an easy way to see which of these games have Linux-native support, aside from manually clicking on all of them?
Yes, now that the bundle is on ITAD (is there any deal)
Last edited by Mambo on 19 March 2022 at 4:40 pm UTC
Jealous! Mine is slotted in the Q2 range.Kinda wanted to donate at first, then I saw that starting amount is $40 and it has less everything in terms of quantity and things that interest me compared to itch's, which I've already paid for. Much as I want to donate, I'll have to skip - that minimal amount is too much for me and even if I earmarked next month's discretionary spending, I can't really justify it with that kind of contents (mainly because itch's was just much better).
They really are a shell of their former self at this point. Even with this big of a bundle and for 100% charity, it's just... mediocre for what they're asking.
1, it's for charity, and 2, even if the games are worse, many would prefer steam keys.
I get my Steam Deck on Monday, so the steam keys are worth far more than any other PC key or even DRM-free download.
Ha, some are complaining about the minimum. I spent enough that they said they had to personally verify it... and I basically have probably 80-90% of the games already.
I also already got the itch.io bundle. But the quality of games on there are quite a bit lower than the ones on the humble bundle. A lot were random RPGs, I'll have to trudge through those to see if any are good at some point.
But most importantly, this is for helping people out!
Ha, some are complaining about the minimum. I spent enough that they said they had to personally verify it... and I basically have probably 80-90% of the games already.Ha! Peasants, am I right? I paid so much they named an orphanage after me... and I don’t even play video games.
Last edited by AndroidNougat7 on 19 March 2022 at 7:56 pm UTC
2. rpg maker VX yeah i own the VX Ace
3 PDF suite key.... online pdf, adobe pdf exist
4. lot of were given for free
5. Max Payne rockstar key yeah big nope
6. Back 4 Blood region locked depending where you buy it
7. a dlc for a free game yeah sure why not they just did a fanatical
8. 2 games for gog... nope
I was tempted at first but then realized i don't buy to stop a war and i don't satisfy ukrainians and russians gamers cause they can't buy this bundle.
And my steam library is mad at me if i buy more.
- Razom for Ukraine
- International Rescue Committee (IRC)
- International Medical Corps
- Direct Relief.
- International Medical Corps
- Voices of Children
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