Humble Monthly is becoming Humble Choice

Crawdaddy79 said:
Same. It would probably be a different story if my card could do ray tracing, but without the showcase, the game didn't appeal. Now I'll own it for pennies, and may actually try it out.
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It's a good game. Raytracing not required for enjoyment.
 
And it's down at downtown Poundtown with the one month of the year that makes people subscribe.

Control - You play as an especially controlling redhead and solve puzzles. Also ray tracing.

XCOM: Chimera Squad - Turn based strategy with aliens. As an owner of Enemy Unknown who was unable to stomach the need to reload save games and "prepare better" for psuedo-randomly materializing enemies. This one is lower rated. If negative reviews say it's too easy, I'll play it.

Elex - The pinnacle of Eurojank. 3rd person action RPG. Varied, yet detailed game world featuring different environments and formidable enemies combined with piss poor animation and combat controls make this one of the most misunderstood games I've ever finished.

Kingdom Two Crowns - a 2D side scrolling real time strategy that's clearly a labor of love.

WWE 2K Battlegrounds - It's a "pro"wrestling game but with apparent superhero abilities. Not sure how this could be fun.

Hotshot Racing - Looking at the screenshots, I'm reminded of Virtua Racing and how it cost $1 per play in the arcade and it was totally worth it. Fast forward 25 years and I have a kid and we're at Chuck E. Cheese and there's Virtua Racing and I get my chance to relive the awesomeness. It doesn't hold up. That said, I'm sure Hotshot Racing is worth playing.

Peaky Blinders: Mastermind - Isometric puzzle/adventure that has a cover shot like it's an FMV game (but it's not :( ). Looking at screenshots, it's Clue: Enhanced Edition. After reading the description, it's not at all like that. More of a trial/error sandbox with canned Sims-like NPC paths and actions.

Cyber Hook - Looks like a VR game but isn't. Physics based platformer with boosts and your movement is mostly defined by your grappling hook.

Pesterquest - Postcard simulator with awful visuals.

Wildfire - Metroidvania in magical medieval environment.

Boreal Blade - PvP swordfighting game that retails for $4.

Agleless - Game Boy Color port. Looks awful.
 
Crawdaddy79 said:
And it's down at downtown Poundtown with the one month of the year that makes people subscribe.

Control - You play as an especially controlling redhead and solve puzzles. Also ray tracing.

XCOM: Chimera Squad - Turn based strategy with aliens. As an owner of Enemy Unknown who was unable to stomach the need to reload save games and "prepare better" for psuedo-randomly materializing enemies. This one is lower rated. If negative reviews say it's too easy, I'll play it.

Elex - The pinnacle of Eurojank. 3rd person action RPG. Varied, yet detailed game world featuring different environments and formidable enemies combined with piss poor animation and combat controls make this one of the most misunderstood games I've ever finished.

Kingdom Two Crowns - a 2D side scrolling real time strategy that's clearly a labor of love.

WWE 2K Battlegrounds - It's a "pro"wrestling game but with apparent superhero abilities. Not sure how this could be fun.

Hotshot Racing - Looking at the screenshots, I'm reminded of Virtua Racing and how it cost $1 per play in the arcade and it was totally worth it. Fast forward 25 years and I have a kid and we're at Chuck E. Cheese and there's Virtua Racing and I get my chance to relive the awesomeness. It doesn't hold up. That said, I'm sure Hotshot Racing is worth playing.

Peaky Blinders: Mastermind - Isometric puzzle/adventure that has a cover shot like it's an FMV game (but it's not :( ). Looking at screenshots, it's Clue: Enhanced Edition. After reading the description, it's not at all like that. More of a trial/error sandbox with canned Sims-like NPC paths and actions.

Cyber Hook - Looks like a VR game but isn't. Physics based platformer with boosts and your movement is mostly defined by your grappling hook.

Pesterquest - Postcard simulator with awful visuals.

Wildfire - Metroidvania in magical medieval environment.

Boreal Blade - PvP swordfighting game that retails for $4.

Agleless - Game Boy Color port. Looks awful.
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If anyone grabs that, and for some reason doesnt want control, kingdoms two crowns, or wildfire, i'd be willing to help you out by taking them off your hands if you wish!
 
Aw crap guys. I only just figured out how I can pause a month by trying to disable the auto-renew (I'm up for May... I think I have enough games.) I thought that you all had a different plan that allowed you to pause when I saw it mentioned in places.

For those that don't know, just go into your account settings and fumble around until you find it.
 
Crawdaddy79 said:
Aw crap guys. I only just figured out how I can pause a month by trying to disable the auto-renew (I'm up for May... I think I have enough games.) I thought that you all had a different plan that allowed you to pause when I saw it mentioned in places.

For those that don't know, just go into your account settings and fumble around until you find it.
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I have paused a few times. But it's a few clicks to pause it ... not very visible
 
They should just rename to Humble Crap bundle.
Btw what happens when you pause? Is it like PSN or XBL that you lose access to your games?
 
KAC said:
They should just rename to Humble Crap bundle.
Btw what happens when you pause? Is it like PSN or XBL that you lose access to your games?
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No. You just lose access to all the keys from that particular month. First you must choose to unlock that months games. If you do then you can't pause.
You get keys to activate in Steam (and maybe Epic or others) that you keep forever.
When a new month rolls around with new games it usually unpauses so if don't want them you have to set it to pause again.

During the pause you also lose access to any extra discounts on games you can purchase at their store.

You also lose access to the Humble Trove which is a bunch of direct download games like some stuff you'd find in a bargain bin at KMart.

You can always unpause the month if you want as take your selection just as long as that month is not over. Once it is over, you can't obtain the keys unless you already chose to unlock that month.
 
Apparently "Control: Standard Edition" equals "Control: Ultimate Edition" because that's what's currently in my Steam library.

Can't wait until year after next when I get a raytracing card and maybe can play it with raytracing.
 
Crawdaddy79 said:
Apparently "Control: Standard Edition" equals "Control: Ultimate Edition" because that's what's currently in my Steam library.

Can't wait until year after next when I get a raytracing card and maybe can play it with raytracing.
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It isn't, 505 games already confirmed it isn't

https://support.505games.com/hc/en-...ol-Ultimate-Edition-in-my-Steam-game-library-

So if you got Control from Humble, then you only got Control Standard Edition despite it showing up as Ultimate edition on Steam.
 
A meh bundle this time around.

Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts - A sniper game based on a line of sniper games that seem to have been milked to the point where only powder comes out the nipples. I have the first one, remastered. I am awful at it.

F1 2020 - I love racing games but have no interest in the F1 series.

Shenmue III - 3rd person minigame simulator with mundane life taking up the space in between. Reviews say that it's both grind and time limited, which is an awful combination, especially a minigame game.

Main Assembly - Engineering simulator. Probably decent if the interface is intuitive.

Rock of Ages 3 - Has nothing to do with the barely remembered FPS Will Rock. Tower defense designed for multiplayer. Could be fun if I had friends.

Remothered: Broken Porcelain - I don't know what this game is trying to be but it looks terrible. From the screens I expect awful voice acting and clunky gameplay where if you hide behind the bed you die but if you hide behind the bed a little more to the right everything goes just fine. Or if you don't find the flat head screwdriver in the one drawer you didn't search because you didn't aim the cursor in the perfect spot so you thought the drawer wasn't open-able. (I'm looking at you, Lucius :mad: )

In Other Waters - 2D colorless puzzle game with complicated rules that you must learn. The learning is what makes it fun!

Aven Colony - Love the aesthetics of this game, but it is in a pile of RTS/City Simulators that I have yet to play.

Simulacra 1 & 2 - Play a game on your PC where you solve a crime using nothing but a mobile phone. Gets points for it not being an iPhone.

Cold Canyon - Fun looking twin-stick shooter with horrible graphics.

Skully - Another indie title that looks fantastic due to pre-packaged assets in Unity or UE4 engine. Might be a physics-based platformer.

Popup Dungeon - Nothing about the title of this game gives me any sense of curiosity or excitement. Just the title alone sounds like trash. Not a game for me.
 
well, Skully looks actually good, although i don#t know anything about the gameplay and Popup Dungeon isn't that bad, it's a highly customizable dungeoncrawler if you will call it so. Aven colony also isn't bad, if you're into that kind of game, of course. The rest of the bundle is more or less utter trash.
 
I paused this month. Not interested in the F1 game. Have the top 3 games in the list... so not worth it for me.
 
This month:

Metro Exodus - For the AMD and pre 20XX owners out there that didn't buy this because they didn't have a Ray Tracing capability, now you can play it without its ray tracing glory! For those with any capable ray tracing card, chances are you already own this. Because Ray Tracing amirite. Steam only.

Darksiders Genesis - the 16 bit version of Darksiders brought to life... no it's actually a slick looking top down RPG in the Darksiders universe.

Hellpoint - a 3rd person action RPG with a stiff follow camera and bad animations. Based in a futuristic hell Quake Doom baby.

Cook, Serve, Delicious 3 - Mark this as the 3rd Cook, Serve, Delicious game I've gotten through Humble Monthly.

Levelhead - Platforming puzzle game that looks like Sonic CD but with less level design.

Fury Unleashed - 2D platformer shooter with lots of colors that go well with brown. Aliens be here.

Size Matters - Could be an interesting game. You drink a potion that makes you shrink and you have to find your way around and as you shrink, your ability to do things shrinks with it. Like pleasuring ***'s *u* amirite

Morkredd - Light based top-down puzzle game with shadow effects first seen in Nox (2000). Co-op so you can play with your Humble Monthly friend that also has it.

Relicta - Cool title image. I actually played the demo of this. Did not like the level of profanity; totally unnecessary for this 1st person puzzle game a la Talos Principle and Portal, but in more varied environments.

Retimed - 2D multiplayer arena shooter with Kirby-like graphics that I'm sure you'll have no trouble finding randos on the internet to play against. Features bubbles that when inside, slow down time just like in God's Trigger's last level because everyone played that as well.

Family Man - Story based first person adventure game with basic non-voxel based 3D graphics. Remember Club Drive for the Jaguar? Like that.

Vane - 2D? 3D? Adventure game. Supposedly you can transform into a bird and back and change the world as you progress. After watching the trailer, it might just be weird enough to deserves a chance.
 
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