The latest offering from the folks over at Humble Bundle is a group of games that are playable in your browser, no need to download installers or plug-ins, though Steam keys are also provided for those that do wish to download the games. As always, the bundle is offered on a pay what you want basis, with extra games provided for beating the average, which currently sits at $4.94, and another extra game for paying at least $8. You can also determine what percentage of your payment goes to Humble Bundle, the developers, and to charity. Now, let’s take a look at what games are in the bundle.
Super Hexagon
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh (creator of VVVVVV) — guide your triangle around a rotating hexagon and avoid the incoming lines. In this deceptively simple game, you’ll have to deal with a spinning screen and rapidly changing colors synced to brain-pumping music.
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome
Aaaaa! took place in an alternate 2011, where BASE jumpers leapt from the skies and executed stunts around the floating buildings of Upper Boston. This semi-sequel picks up six years later — the sport’s been outlawed, and you’re jumping as a form of protest. High in Earth’s stratosphere, you’ll thread a path through the rotating blades of enormous wind turbines. Elsewhere in the solar system, you’ll dodge asteroids above seas of lava, spray graffiti onto lunar government offices, and flip off Ganymede colonists — all in the name of peaceful protest.
Osmos
Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack.
Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax – good things come to those who wait.
Zen Bound 2
Wrap your way to bliss in Zen Bound 2, the unique down-tempo indie game! This is a different gaming experience: an opportunity to slow down, zone out and focus on a task that’s challenging but not stressful, a set of gentle puzzles for the mind and fingers to solve.
Dustforce DX
Clean up the world with style! As an acrobatic janitor, you are an adept force against dust and disorder. Leap and dash off walls and ceilings, and deftly traverse precarious environments. Cleanse each level swiftly and thoroughly to achieve mastery in this 2D sweep-’em-up platformer.
Dustforce DX is an update to Dustforce featuring over a dozen new maps, new and improved overworld, bug fixes, new music track and some of the best community made custom maps pre-installed.
Beating the average for this bundle will also net you the following.
Voxatron
Voxatron is a brand new, voxel-based, old-school-gone-new platform shooter. Pick up your trusty pea gun and shoot your way, Robotron-style, through more than twenty challenging areas filled with blocky baddies, destructible toys, and palliative powerups.
FTL: Advanced Edition
Captain a spaceship delivering critical intelligence to the Federation while being chased down by rebels in the top-down space strategy game FTL: Faster Than Light. Manage your crew through one-on-one ship combat and life or death situations, while making sure they don’t die from lack of oxygen, fires, or shots from one of an arsenal of weapons. Random scenarios make each trip through the galaxy one full of surprises and challenges.
FTL: Faster Than Light won the Excellence in Design and the Audience Award at the 2013 Independent Games Festival. It was also named Best Debut at the 2012 Game Developers Choice Awards and Best Short-form Game of 2012 by PC Gamer.
Finally, pay at least $8 and you will receive a copy of…
Democracy 3
Have you ever wanted to be president? Or prime-minister? Convinced you could do a better job of running the country? Let’s face it, you could hardly do a worse job than our current political leaders.
Crime, Unemployment, National Debt, Terrorism, Climate Change…Have you got the answers to the problems that face Western industrialized nations? Here is your chance to find out…
I’m a big fan of Humble Bundle. I see it as a great way to get some new games I wouldn’t have played otherwise, and to get them for cheap. It’s easy to justify the expense because it’s so small and the proceeds go to a good cause. If you’re still not sure whether the games in the bundle are for you, the site features in browser demos, so go and try them out.