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Humble "Frozen Synapse" Bundle -- Indie Games

Started by Peregrin, October 10, 2011, 03:47:27 AM

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Peregrin

http://www.humblebundle.com/

Roughly two days left, and it's pay what you want -- you can also split up how the money is used.  Give as much as you want to charity, or the developers.

There are some good games in this one, too.  Frozen Synapse is like a turn-based overhead Rainbow Six game with a Tron feel -- very tactical, if a bit tough to learn to play well.  I'm not too far into this one yet to offer a good/bad opinion yet.

SpaceChem, though, is a redunculously hard puzzle game that takes some liberties with chemistry (the molecules and compounds are real, the way in which you construct them is abstracted into the game bits) to craft a really addictive experience with a scifi engineering wrapper.  It's good that it's addictive, because it starts off fairly challenging and the difficulty curve goes through the roof by the end of the game -- only something like 2-3% of the people who bought the game have finished it in its entirety (it records your performance and game completion so you can compare yourself to other players).  If you like a real thinking-man's challenge, this is the game for you.

Here's a brief intro to SpaceChem
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I'm not really familiar with the other games on the list, but if you pay more than 4 or 5 USD (or whatever the average paid is at the time you buy the bundle), you get several other games for free.

A very good deal, IMO, as SpaceChem itself normally costs something like 20 dollars, and I'd gladly have paid 5-10 bucks for it alone.
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StormBringer

I love Humble Bundles, and Frozen Synapse looks awesome.
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Frozen Synapse got an awesome review, too...it's on my agenda once I wade through everything everything else I'm playing, assuming Skyrim doesn't dominate all.
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A nice education blog.

StormBringer

Quote from: Doom;485802Frozen Synapse got an awesome review, too...it's on my agenda once I wade through everything everything else I'm playing, assuming Skyrim doesn't dominate all.
That is mostly why I wanted in on that bundle, but they closed it out a week ago or something.
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