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[bisexualbaker]

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#discworld #humble bundle #humblebundle #gnu terry pratchett #sir terry pratchett #ebooks

[st-hugs]

Moho 12.5 is £20-ish right now on humblebundle! Not the latest version of it but it's a good rigged/puppet 2d animation software! 3 days left to claim!

#hugo text #humble bundle #humblebundle #moho #moho 12.5 #animation

[elitheaceofalltrades]

The Almost Gone - Game Review

Note: This review contains spoilers

I got this game in the HumbleBundle Amazing Adventures Bundle. Before this, I'd never heard of it so I went in mostly blind and with not much thoughts or opinions outside of "the art look cute" and "the concept seems cool". So let's get into the review.

The Almost Gone was a pretty short game, it took me approx. 3 hours to play in it's entirety(3 hours exact according to steam). The Game consisted of 5 Acts/Chapters and once you completed a stage, you could not go back.

The Good:

The art was absolutely gorgeous. I loved the art style, the colour palette, everything. The artists can definitely give themselves a pat on the back

The music was another highlight. I'll be honest, I'm a bit of a coward so "eeire instrumental" isn't my usual jam but the music was genuinely beautiful and really helped set the overall vibe of the game

The puzzles were engaging and difficult enough to make you think but not so difficult as to make you throw up your hands and give up. I was slightly worried that 5 chapters of a point and click game might get boring but the puzzle weren't repetitive at all and nothing felt too easy or too hard

I also have to give kudos to the creators for the handling of sensitive topics. Despite dealing with some heavy stuff, nothing was ever graphic so more sensitive games shouldn't have a problem. The most graphic thing was the police car in a tree (shown below), everything else was just inferred.

The Bad:

The ending left a lot of questions unanswered. As we go through the game we piece together the life of the MC, Emily, and her family. While it's expected for there to be some confusion initalliy with these kind of game, you generally assume that by the end you'll have a cohesive idea of what happened. That was not the case in the almost gone. Chapter 1 - 4 gives us the following information:

Chapter 1 set "a moment after" - We start off in Emily's home and we learn about her relationship with her parents and their terrible relationship with each other. It's a bit of a cliche, her parents work too much, they fight all the time, the mother is diagnosed with depression and mixes her meds with alcohol and also filed for divorce and full custody.

Chapter 2 set "an hour after" - We move outside and into the neighbourhood where we learn bits and pieces about the neighbours as well as discover that there was some sort of accident (it's where the cop car in the tree is set). We do not know exactly what happened, we just see the aftermath of it.

Chapter 3 set "30 years before" - We learn backstory about Emily's paternal grandparents. Her grandfather was an architect whose design collapsed, killing 8 people, which led to lawsuits and hatemail. He was also abusive and locked her grandmother and father in the basement. We also learn that her dad was lowkey kind of a psychopath, since we find animal bones in his childhood closet and it was implied that he killed them. One of the clues we discover also happen to be a skeleton key that unlocks all the doors in the grandparent's apartment but also has the pun of actually being made from a bird skeleton, again it's inferred by her father.

Chapter 4 set "one year after" - We learn about Emily's mother and her time at a mental hospital and the horrors endured there by her and the other patients. It is also implied that her mother died at this hospital though nothing graphic is depicted. There is no body or anything, we just enter the morgue to see one of the plaques has her mother's room number on it.

Now all of this was well and good and interesting, however the problem comes with chapter 5. I was expecting chapter 5 to be a conclusion which tied together the story in a neat little bow instead it ended up being more of an epilogue where Emily reaches a tree house her father built for her, lays down in bed and says she wants to sleep and then it cuts to credits. It was great to uncover the mystery of who is emily and what happened to her but instead of getting that "aha" moment where it all comes together you're left with your little notepad of disjointed information. I inferred from the sleep as well as the strikethrough in almost that Emily has now passed on and we were in some weird in between state. However I have seen some others question is we were playing while Emily was in a coma and it ended with her waking up. I disagree since "things ending with a character going to sleep" has always been a metaphor for death but to each his own. So while I can be satisfied that in knowing that Emily died, I spent 3 hours playing a game and I cannot tell you know. We know there was an accident that ended with one police car in a tree, another car on fire and death in the neighbourhood but what exactly caused the accident? why the police were in the area to begin with? what happened? We get no answers what so ever. We also have no idea what happened to her father. There are some videos, threads and posts out there that try to piece together a cohesive narrative of what exactly happened but from the game itself we have no clear answer. I think that in trying to not be too graphic about certain things that the creators ended up being too vague on details and that's why we're left with a lot of questions.

In conclusion? I gave The Almost Gone 3 out of 5 stars. The game was beautiful and interesting but the payoff did not match it's potential and in trying to not be too graphic, the creators ended up being too vague on important parts of the story.

Final Rating:⭐⭐⭐

~Eli

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[itseverydaybear]

A first look at Pan'orama, a chilled out city building puzzler, that's part of the Humble If You Build It - Cities & More bundle.

#youtube #videogames #gaming #video games #humble bundle #humblebundle

[fanthatracks]

The latest Humble Bundle is here, bringing us Star Wars: Legends, Myths, and The High Republic available now until 29th June supporting First Book, a nonprofit supporting teachers and students in the USA's highest-need communities with books and educational resources Discover tales of legendary Jedi heroes, Dark Side masters, and the galaxy’s most wretched hives of scum and villainy in this library of novels and fiction for Star Wars fans of all ages! Explore an era when the Jedi Order was at its prime in books from the best-selling High Republic series (Into the Dark). Read about the adventures of Padmé Amidala (Queen’s Peril), the rise and fall of Darth Vader, and the journeys of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Pick up a treasury of 40 thrilling Star Wars stories, and help support First Book! [amazon box="B0BRYGM9R1"]

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[chaotic-on-main]

YALL. HUMBLE BUNDLE IS DOING THE LORD'S WORK.

Go here to get all of the Attack on Titan works (not just the entire manga set, but also No Regrets, Before the Fall, Spoof on Titan, Junior High, and MUCH MORE)

It's literally $25 for all of it (but of course you can pay more if you want, it is going to charity after all) ✌🏻

#attack on titan #aot #shingeki no kyojin #snk #humblebundle #id do it but im broke right now also i prefer the physical copies #BUT THIS IS A REALLY GOOD DEAL

[themossbed]

Scourge Bringer

So I signed up for the humble choice, a monthly drop of curated games from the Humble Bundle group. One of last month's games has consumed my life. It's called Scourge Bringer.

It's an extremely challenging 2D run based game. Each area is divided into rooms you have to clear before moving to the next room. The shining light in this game is the feeling of control you gain over your character in increasingly chaotic conditions.

You eventually unlock numerous abilities which increase you capabilities to knock enemies projectiles back, smash and move enemies around the arena, clear the room of bullets, and mix and match a number of different guns and upgrades.

You never feel overpowered, but you also never feel hopeless. Like my experience with games like Nuclear Throne or Dead Cells, my mastery of the controls and understanding of the enemy types continued to increase well after all the upgrades were unlocked.

I got BETTER at the playing the game and that made my first victorious run feel earned.

The sound design is wonderful, the game pumps in intense, energetic metal when your character is combat, and meditative music when not. It's beautiful and creates a wonderful contrast.

I loved it! Check it out maybe!

#scourge bringer #scourgebringer #humblebundle

[flyingcookiegumtruckthing]

Yay! DRM Free high quality official PDFs

#anime #kodansha #manga #comics #books #humblebundle #ya boy kongming #blue lock #when will ayumu make his move? #tmm #tokyo mew mew #a couple of cuckoos #dawn of the witch #police in a pod #shikimori's not just a cutie

[akaispirit]

Look, This War of Mine and Frostpunk alone are worth the $15,  go buy it!!!

#Games #Humblebundle #Frostpunk #This War of Mine

[thegaminggang]

#CityofCatsfor5E #DoctorWhoNemesis #Dungeons&Dragons #FrontierScum #GaleForce9 #GamesOmnivorous #HomeworldFleetCommand #HumbleBundle #KoboldPress #Modiphius #PaizoInc #Pathfinder #RollforCombat

[st-hugs]

Moho 12.5 is £20-ish right now on humblebundle! Not the latest version of it but it's a good rigged/puppet 2d animation software! 3 days left to claim!

#hugo text #humble bundle #humblebundle #moho #moho 12.5 #animation

[lifesupreme-if]

hey yall, there's currently a humblebundle for 18$ to get lorebooks & graphic novels for both cyberpunk 2077 and the witcher :) proceeds benefit a uk charity that helps bring accessible video gaming to people living with disabilities

#humblebundles usually a good shot at getting lore books and comics and stuff u wouldnt purchase seperately otherwise due to price so! #not if related #it is cyberpunk related tho technically

[queenmeve]

i'm gonna get into game dev <3

#been wanting to for a while and humblebundle has a pretty good bundle rn #so why the FUCK NOT LETS GO

[andromedasummer]

Good morning, today im going to pirate 5-7 videogames made by small indie game devs who are heavily dependent on sales 😚✌️

in WHAT world is the sims 4 or fucking crusader kings 3 an INDIE GAME

#either you are bitching at me for pirating paradox's mainline games which have around $800-1000 dollars worth of dlc #or think pirating indie games is a good thing to do #i already BOUGHT AND OWN all of stellaris and over half its dlc and all paradoxes published indie games (surviving the apocalypse/empire of #sin when it came out etc) when humblebundle/epic games/another service i cant remember the name of right now #had them on sale/they were free on epic #paradox interactive published games yes #but they have 9 development studios under their belt (including paradox development) #which make their core games (europa/crusader kings/hearts of iron/victoria) which are fully fledged triple a games that sell for like $80 #on release and $40-$50 off #they have hundreds of dollars of dlc which makes experiencing the full game literally impossible for anyone who isnt #a youtuber or incredibly wealthy. like its not happening. #anyway literally my ethos is pirate from ea and pirate from paradox dev studio but dont pirate indie games #i didnt realize surviving the apocalypse was an indie dev i thought it was coreline and when i did i got it #on sale through the site i mentioned. its not a game launcher i cant remember it but i got jalopy from it a few years back #also sidenote i completely forgot i own empire of sin. like that game has not been in my mind since i watched a youtube video #of it back in 2020 when it dropped and thought it was cool and bought it #i also own cities and stellaris and an egregious amount of dlc for it please dont look at my steam account i spent money very wildly #as a teenager when they came out #i havent played skyline in a while and none of the stellaris dlc has been worth buying for a few years now unfortunately #i do plan on buying pillars of eternity when i can and the new vampire masquerade game when it comes out cos i fucking love isometric games #and vtm both video game and rpg #anyway this is now me rambling about video games my core ethos stands #buy from indie devs but pirate from EA and Paradox Dev #because they practise some of the most disgusting marketing practises in the video game industry and i despise #that its becoming the norm. a game should be able to be fully experienced for less than $100. to paywall it so severely with dlc #is money hungry bullfuckery

[chrismcshell]

steam summer sale babyyyyyyy and this time i’m Employed...... a dangerous combination, big viddygame sale + the fact that i actually have income now. time to spend a bunch of my hard-earned dollars on games that will probably sit unplayed in my steam library for a long time 🎉

#ray speaks #video james #gonna need to take some time to look at whats available after work.... or maybe DURING work if i can catch a quiet moment for it lmao #but so far i know i am buying aitsf. fans of that game: rejoice for i may soon become one of u #i watched someone play the first few hours of it on a twitch stream & i was like ooh this looks neat but then he didnt continue it so - #- guess i'll just play it myself !!!! #side note i also just bought ghostwire tokyo yesterday cuz it was 50% off on humblebundle. nother one for the library #so many videogames so little time :') but i do love to hoard them up & know that theyll be there for me to play them when im ready for them

[unchartedthelostlegacy]

i'm not forgiving humblebundle's Terry Pratchett ebook bundle for making me make a kobo account and an adobe account (!) and download a book police program just to individually click each of the 39 works' download links and then finally put them onto my pocketbook era. ebooks were a mistake. if you're going to need to break into an armored truck to read it on a breakable plastic slab i might as well go to the library and read a worn copy in real life

#anyway none of my humblebundle book or magazine or manga purchases have done that to me #they were all downloadable en masse from humblebundle's website!