I've got to hand it to the Humble bundle wallah's, they have never failed to surprise me with the bundles they release. Every one is an amazing bargain for what you get Take for example Dungeon Defenders with all the DLC that alone would cost you at this time nearly £40 (approx $60); there's actually 24 separate DLC's included with this game. If you'd purchased the game and DLC's as they were released you would have paid over £90 (approx $135). The money to purchase just two of the more expensive DLC's from this pack would have been more than enough to ensure you unlocked everything the humble bundle has to offer. Payments less than this would still give you an amazing bargain. I think the average payment that would unlock all games in the bundle stood at less than $5.50 last night.
The total cost of this bundle if you were like me and impatient to get the games, so purchased them at release prices would have set you back over £140 (approx $210). Though now you can get the lot from Steam for a measly $86.92 (approx $130), so paying only $5.50 for all six games plus the movie and loads of DLC's is such a fantastic bargain. Every game in the bundle costs more than the minimum asking price for these games.
You also get a decent selection of indie genres with Tower Defence (Dungeon Defenders) being the most prominent, also a Puzzle game (Closure), a side scrolling brawler (Shank 2), a 'modern retro' dungeon crawling role playing game (Legend of Grimrock), a puzzle platformer (Snapshot) and a randomly generated action RPG shooter (The Binding of Issac + DLC) plus, if you are interested in following the making of a game (Super Meatboy), which was included in a previous bundle, there's an excellent film called Indie Game: The Movie
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Closure:
In the dark and mysterious world of Closure, only what you see exists. Manipulate lights to phase objects in and out of reality in this multiple-award-winning puzzle game. Play as a strange spider-like demon who explores the stories of three human characters through beautiful, eerie environments such as a decrepit factory, a murky forest, an abandoned carnival, and the strange, surreal realm that connects them together.
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Dungeon Defenders + all DLC
Dungeon Defenders is a Tower Defense Action-RPG where you must save the land of Etheria from an Ancient Evil! Create a hero from one of four distinct classes to fight back wave after wave of enemies by summoning defenses and directly participating in the action-packed combat.
Customize and level your character, forge equipment, gather loot, collect pets and more! Take your hero through multiple difficulty modes and challenge/survival missions to earn more experience & even better treasure. Join your friends with 4-player online and local (splitscreen) co-op to plan your strategies together or compete in PvP Deathmatch.
Key Features
• 4-player Online and Local Co-Op - Team-up with up to 3 friends to defend cooperatively, with character classes that support each other’s strengths and weaknesses. Dynamically combine local (splitscreen) and online players and leave/join any time, so that the game’s always full.
• Tower-Defense Meets Action-RPG - Choose your class, customize your character & equipment, strategically assemble your defenses, and participate directly in action-packed battle to preserve your castle against the invading horde!
• 4 Distinct Character Classes - Each character class has a different skill tree, set of towers, and even basic attacks! You can choose if you want to play stealthy, turn invisible, and plant traps behind enemy lines with the Huntress or go all out, block off choke points, and brutally beat your foes into submission with the Squire!
• Loot and Level-Up - Grab the mounds of money and items that your defeated foes drop and trade them or store them for later use in your Item Box! Getting kills and completing waves earns you experience points, which can be used to upgrade your characters, skills, equipment, and towers on a per-statistic basis. Do you want to enhance Hit Points, Attack Rate, Damage, etc? The choice is yours... Store your massive overflow of money in the 'Mana Bank' and then spend it to improve your equipment or trade with other players. Proudly show off your best equipment in your own 'Adventurer’s Tavern', without fear of item theft!
• Tons of Enemies and Huge Boss Fights - Over 100 simultaneous enemies will attempt to tear through your defenses and gigantic Boss Monsters will appear to rain down havoc upon everyone. Only by employing the most effective defensive strategies, teamwork, and strong characters will you defeat such devilish foes! Many enemy types run the gamut from big dumb Orcs swinging huge axes, to lithe Dark Elves that strike from the shadows, to crazy kamikaze goblins! Can you defeat the epic boss battles and collect the special loot while still defending your crystals?
• Mission & Game Play Variety - Each level has a different visual setting, layout, enemy types, traps, and distinct surprises. To collect all the loot and reach the highest levels you must take your character through 4 difficulty modes, survival missions, challenge maps, and more! Some maps force you to have mobile defenses, guarding a crystal which warps around the map. Others have YOU attacking enemy encampments!
• Collect and Trade Pets Online - A variety of pets exist to assist you in the land of Etheria, each with distinct behaviors. These pets can be leveled-up and customized to match your unique play-style. They can even be traded online with other players!
• Secure Trading System - Afraid another player won't live up to their word? Use our secure trading system to trade your precious weapons, armor, and pets with other players online! Watch your name and fame spread online, as people seek out the best pet raisers or item forgers!
• A Mountain of Stats - Every shot you take, kill you make, and defense you build is logged and recorded for posterity. Pore over the voluminous charts and graphs at the end of each session to analyze your team’s performance, quickly review your best statistics for each level, and compare your data online with other players to see who is the greatest hero of all. Furthermore, your Achievements are visible for all to see within your very own Adventurer’s Tavern, and the highest scores for each of your heroes are ranked on the worldwide leaderboards!
• Dungeon Defenders Development Kit - Dungeon Defenders includes a free development kit where you can create and edit new Dungeon Defenders missions and more utilizing all of the existing Dungeon Defenders assets. Download and share these user created levels via Steam Workshop for an endless Dungeon Defenders experience!
All DLC for this game:
Dungeon Defenders The Great Turkey Hunt! Mission & Costumes
Dungeon Defenders Halloween Costume Pack
Dungeon Defenders Halloween Mission Pack
Dungeon Defenders Anniversary Pack
Dungeon Defenders: Jester Hero DLC
Dungeon Defenders - Quest for the Lost Eternia Shards Part 4
Dungeon Defenders: Talay Mining Complex Mission Pack
Dungeon Defenders: Summoner Hero DLC
Dungeon Defenders: Quest for the Lost Eternia Shards Part 3
Dungeon Defenders: City in the Cliffs Mission Pack
Dungeon Defenders: Penny Arcade Character Pack
Dungeon Defenders: Series EV Hero DLC
Dungeon Defenders - Karathiki Jungle Mission Pack
Dungeon Defenders Lucky Costume Pack
Dungeon Defenders - Quest for the Lost Eternia Shards Part 2
Dungeon Defenders - President's Day Surprise
Dungeon Defenders: Etherian Festival of Love
Dungeon Defenders: Barbarian Hero DLC
Dungeon Defenders: Assault Mission Pack
Dungeon Defenders - Etherian Holiday Extravaganza
Dungeon Defenders - Quest for the Lost Eternia Shards Part 1
Dungeon Defenders Warping Core Challenge Mission Pack
Dungeon Defenders New Heroes DLC
Dungeon Defenders Capture the Flag Pre-Alpha Pass (Free DLC)
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Indie Game: The Movie:
Follow the creation of the games Super Meat Boy, Braid and FEZ through this Sundance award-winning feature documentary. Critic’s Pick of the New York Times and declared a “Must See” by Ain’t It Cool News. Watch the full theatrical cut in 1080p HD.
After almost two years of painstaking work, designer Edmund McMillen and programmer Tommy Refenes await the release of their first major game for Xbox, Super Meat Boy—the adventures of a skinless boy in search of his girlfriend, who is made of bandages. At PAX, a major video-game expo, developer Phil Fish unveils his highly anticipated, four-years-in-the-making FEZ. Jonathan Blow considers beginning a new game after creating Braid, one of the highest-rated games of all time.
First-time filmmaking duo Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky capture the emotional journey of these developers as they sacrifice money, health and sanity to realize their lifelong dreams of sharing their games with the world. Four developers, three games, and one ultimate goal— to express oneself through a video game.
Features:
• 1080P, full HD video application.
• Team Meat’ Audio Commentary Track: Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes provide their various insights throughout the film. Hilarious, informative and sometimes outright lies. It’s a great compliment to the film.
• Subtitle / Language Support: The IGTM steam application will support the following subtitles: English, English (descriptive), French, Italian, Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese (Brazil), Traditional Chinese, German, Thai, Hebrew, Turkish, Czech, Dutch, Arabic and Russian.
• Video Extras: Assorted video pieces produced during the production of the film.
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Shank 2: (over 18)
The fan-favorite 2D brawler is back as ex-mob hit man Shank returns to action in Shank 2. With those closest to him under attack, Shank is once again forced on the offensive. Now he must put his trusty arsenal of handguns, shotguns, automatic weapons, chainsaws, machetes, grenades, plus all-new weaponry and moves to use in order to protect those close to him. The original game set a new standard for its visual style and Shank 2 raises the bar. Shank 2 expands on the original game’s amazing combat system to redefine the 2D side-scrolling brawler.
Key Features:
• Multi-Weapon Combat System: With a brand new redesigned weapon system, take on smarter and greater variety of goons and bigger, badder bosses with new weapon combos and new counter moves that let you use enemies’ weapons against them!
• It Takes More than One to Survive: Team up with a friend to put a thrashing on hordes of goons in this all-new and incredibly fun arcade-style co-op survival mode. Teamwork is essential to surviving waves of increasing tenacious enemies!
• Rich Environments: Look for opportunities to bring down ceilings, explode barrels, hurl crates, and explore surroundings to find new in-game unlockables!
• Stunning Visuals: Shank 2 draws you into the action with a stunning visual style that sets a new benchmark in 2D brawlers.
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Legend of Grimrock:
Legend of Grimrock is a dungeon crawling role playing game with an oldschool heart but a modern execution. A group of prisoners are sentenced to certain death by exiling them to the secluded Mount Grimrock for vile crimes they may or may not have committed. Unbeknownst to their captors, the mountain is riddled with ancient tunnels, dungeons and tombs built by crumbled civilizations long perished now. If they ever wish to see daylight again and reclaim their freedom the ragtag group of prisoners must form a team and descend through the mountain, level by level.
The game brings back the oldschool challenge with highly tactical real-time combat and grid-based movement, devious hidden switches and secrets as well as deadly traps and horrible monsters. Legend of Grimrock puts an emphasis on puzzles and exploration and the wits and perception of the player are more important tools than even the sharpest of swords could be. And if you are a hardened dungeon crawling veteran and you crave an extra challenge, you can arm yourself with a stack of grid paper and turn on the Oldschool Mode which disables the luxury of the automap! Are you ready to venture forth and unravel the mysteries of Mount Grimrock?
Key Features:
• Explore a vast network of ancient tunnels, discover secrets and find a way to survive in the perilous dungeons of Mount Grimrock.
• Cast spells with runes, craft potions with herbs and fight murderous monsters with a wide variety of weaponry.
• Create a party of four characters and customize them with different races, classes, skills and traits.
• Pure blooded dungeon crawling game with grid-based movement and thousands of squares riddled with hidden switches, pressure plates, sliding walls, floating crystals, forgotten altars, trapdoors and more.
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Snapshot:
Snapshot is the tale of a lone robot lost in an abandoned world. Armed with only his trusty camera, Pic sets forth on his great adventure. A camera might not seem like enough for a puzzle platforming adventure, but this camera is different from most: It has the ability to capture and remove from the world the very objects that it photographs. Not only that, but it can also use its powers to paste the photos it took back into the environment! Everything that the camera captures is perfectly preserved, and when the photos are restored the objects are restored with it. On top of all of that, this amazing camera can also rotate the photos before they're pasted. Take a picture of an incoming fireball, rotate it and paste it to send it flying into a wall of heavy boxes to knock it out of the way. See what kind of crazy things can happen to Pic with his awesome (and probably magical) camera during the adventure of his life!
Key Features:
• A unique photography mechanic
• Over 100 different levels of platforming and puzzling.
• 4 distinct environments to explore.
• Secrets and time trial challenges for every level.
• Hand crafted high resolution graphics.
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The Binding of Issac + Wrath of the Lamb DLC:
When Isaac’s mother starts hearing the voice of God demanding a sacrifice be made to prove her faith, Isaac escapes into the basement facing droves of deranged enemies, lost brothers and sisters, his fears, and eventually his mother.
The Binding of Isaac is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.
Key features:
• Randomly generated dungeons, items enemies and bosses, you never play the same game twice.
• Over 100 unique items that not only give you powers but visually change your character.
• 50+ enemy types each with the ability to become "special" making them extra deadly but they also drop better loot.
• Over 20 bosses.
• 4 full chapters spanning 8 levels
• 3+ unlockable classes
• Multiple endings
• Tons of unlockable items, enemies, bosses and more.
Wrath of the Lamb DLC:
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Usual cost for each of these games:
Closure - £6.99
Dungeon Defenders + DLC - £9.99 + £85.97
Indie Game: The Movie - £6.99
Shank 2 - £7.99
Legend of Grimrock - £11.99
Snapshot - £6.99
The Binding of Issac + Wrath of the Lamb DLC £3.99 + £1.99
Games = 54.93
DLC = 87.96
Total = £142.89
The complete Dungeon Defenders set now costs £39.99
whereas those that purchased the game and DLC as they were released would have paid
£95.96
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