Warhammer 40K: Darktide
Persona 4 Golden
Lamplighters League
Cassette Beasts
The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales
Karmazoo
Hexarchy
Garden Life
Honestly, every single time I get around to writing one my Humble Bundle roundups on the latest monthly drop, I think that I should get my arse in gear and just get a few of them done in the next month... before the next drop! That way, I wouldn't be half a year behind the actual drops...
... and every single time, I forget... and I find myself in the position of just catching up one more... as the newest one only just got released today! And I REALLY want to write about this month's Humble Bundle drop... as it is a good one.
... but instead, I'm writing about last November's drop.
So, lets get moving on this one, so that I have at least a small chance of catching up to the real new drop!
Leading the pack this month was Warhammer 40k: Darktide. A pretty decent co-op shooter that is the future equivalent to Vermintide... I'm sort of hoping that one day, one of my kids will be interested enough to play this with me... unlikely, but in the mean time, I will see if it works as a single-player experience. Unlikely, but I'm a dead sucker for anything set in any Warhammer universe... So, claimed... even though I will likely never play it.
Persona 4 Golden is a huge classic from the Persona franchise... I've been enjoying Persona 5, but have gotten stuck on a pretty janky boss... I'll have to get back to it at some point, and this retro older game might be just the thing to get me back into the Persona games again after being disillusioned from that horrible boss battle. Sadly, I already bought this a while back in a Steam sale... before Persona 5 was released on PC, and so I now have an extra copy... to put into the key store at some point!
Likewise with Lamplighter's League... already bought in a previous Steam sale! A turn based tactics game in the mode of XCOM... but with a tighter cast of characters and storyline instead of the emergent version of XCOM. I really enjoyed the Indiana Jones 1940's vibe of the game... and the art style is superb as well! Highly recommended if you like turn based tactic games... this will be in the key store!
Cassette Beasts is Pokemon by the looks of it... but not Pokemon! It does look pretty cool, even if I'm not really sure that I like the retro graphics thing... but it does have some pretty overwhelmingly good reviews from users... so, I'll claim it and give it a go on the Steam Deck... seems like the perfect fit for gaming on the go!
Single Player... Adventure game... The Book Walker looks like a game for me, something chill with a storyline... a bit of exploration of legendary books, although, from the video trailer... it does seem like a weird mix of game styles and perspectives. Could be interesting though, I'm a fan of interestin and unusual games that don't try to fit into one of the tried to death mainstream XBOX gamer molds... Claimed!
Karmazoo... well, this does have an interesting art style... but the platformer thing is just not my type of game. And it is interesting in artstyle, but I actually don't like it.... I'm leaving this one for the key store!
4X gaming... tick! Crossed with Deck builder???? Okay, that is weird... but interesting... Hexarchy could be a cool game to try out, or it could be a failed fusion of two vastly different genres! But that is the cool thing with the Humble Drops... the chance to try out things at a cheap price, things that I wouldn't have ordinarily given a second look at! So, claimed!
Lastly, Garden Life... a garden simulator. It does look very pretty... and it might suit some people, but I've a real garden to take care of! Pass on this!
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