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[Mephisto]

I think it's time for... a bump! Three bundles and my impressions for each game based on the trailers (Groupees impression incoming once it's released)

Bundle Stars 10: Superfly Indie - Zeno Clash and nine other games for $5.

• Galaxy on Fire 2 - Space shooter. Looks like it would be fun, but the constant pew-pew of your weapons would quickly drive me to insanity
• Afterfall: Insanity - Stop me if you've heard this one before; post-apocalyptic third person shooter. Looks pretty for something I've never heard of
• Air Conflicts: Pacific Carriers - A more arcade-y IL-2? Could be good, but this is something I really have to try hands-on to judge
• Cargo Commander - If you pay attention to Steam, you've probably seen this. 2D physics platformer. The only thing I remember hearing is "pass"
• Disciples III Renaissance - Fantasy turn-based strategy(?) rpg(?). The trailer didn't show enough gameplay for me, but I am intrigued by the funny hats
• The Journey Down, Chapter 1 - Point-and-click adventure starring... skeleton... things. Could be good if the humor holds up
• Kung Fu Strike: The Warrior's Rise - Exactly what it says on the tin. Brawler with gratuitous flying kung fu. Meh
• Dungeons: The Dark Lord - You've heard of this. Dungeon Keeper-alike. I seem to recall people describing it as disappointing
• Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space - Space 4X with real-time battles. Looks surprisingly good to me
• Zeno Clash - The premier surreal first-person beat-em-up. I'd be surprised if you've never heard of this - the sequel came out fairly recently

Bundle Stars: Masters of Strategy - Tropico 3, Earth 2160, Jagged Alliance 2, and two others for $3.

• Tropico 3 - An incremental improvement on Tropico 2. The sequel is, in turn, incrementally better than this. Fun[ny]
• Earth 2160 - RTS. I've only played 2150, but I expect this will be somewhat more of the same
• Patrician IV - Be a merchant? I've had it on Steam from a prior bundle, but I've never installed it
• Jagged Alliance 2 - It's vaguely like Back in Action. But good
• Restaurant Empire 2 - Probably an incremental improvement on the original, which I've never heard of and have no desire to play

Groupees Adventure/RPG - Rune Classic and... a handful of games I've never heard of and have no desire to play for at least $1.50. Starts in ~5 hours from the posting of this

There are a few more, but these are the ones I've got at least a passing interest in. I don't know about the Groupees bundle, but a nice bonus for the Bundle Stars bundles is that all games have Steam keys.

[Aoi]

Also IndieGala with Space Pirates and Zombies (which I quite enjoyed!), eXceed and a smattering of a few other things I'm not familiar with. http://www.indiegala.com/

[Moghjubar]

Well, new humble bundle, except its not indie stuff (Has Saints Row 3 again, 2, Risen 2, Sacred 2, and Dead Island.... and Dead Island Riptide if you pay more than 25 bucks!)

Seems like a 'sucker' bundle to me, imo.

Edit: Well, maybe little less of one, the 'next week' bonus appears to be Sacred Citadel, Risen, and Metro 2033
http://steamdb.info/sub/29407/#section_apps

[Brons]

Definitely not an indie bundle. Good bundle though, bought it.

[Jar of Jam]

Definitely not an indie bundle. Good bundle though, bought it.

The indie bundles were called "Humble Indie Bundles", but the site itself doesn't have "indie" in it's name, thus, any kind of bundles can appear there.

[Mephisto]

Speaking of Humble Bundle...

Humble Weekly. Several 1C games for... $3? $4? Their mobile layout is horrid, so the price is mostly off the edge of my screen. I could see the averages, though, so it's a decent guess.

King's Bounty: The Legend and Armored Princess, Men of War and Red Tide.

BTA for King's Bounty: Crossworlds and MoW: Assault Squad - Goaty Edition.

[Aoi]

Speaking of Humble Bundle...

Humble Weekly. Several 1C games for... $3? $4? Their mobile layout is horrid, so the price is mostly off the edge of my screen. I could see the averages, though, so it's a decent guess.

King's Bounty: The Legend and Armored Princess, Men of War and Red Tide.

BTA for King's Bounty: Crossworlds and MoW: Assault Squad - Goaty Edition.

BTA is 3.30 currently.

King's Bounty is pretty good if you like that kind of thing. I'm... awful at it. How's Men of War?

[Anvilfolk]

Men of war is amazing, but EXTREMELY hard and unforgiving. I think it tends to go a little bit for the more realistic side of gaming. Took me hours upon hours to win my first game. It also needs a fair amount of micromanagement. You might save resources at great, great personal risk to finally get that superduper tank to have a few infantry guys score a lucky hit on the side armour, and that's the end of it.

It can be amazing, but the path to amazingness is "dark and full of terrors"...

[Chaoswizkid]

I think it tends to go a little bit for the more realistic side of gaming.

Understatement. Imagine Company of Heroes, except each of your soldiers has their own inventory, which includes their weapons, their ammunition, their grenades, anything special they might have and also their hats. Every vehicle has its own inventory, which includes its own ammunition and usually a repair box or two. Every vehicle also has a crew, and if the vehicle is understaffed then the crew swaps positions to do what it needs to do. Vehicle damage is simulated based on armor, angle, ammunition type, etc. You can also take direct control of your soldier (though the view doesn't change so it's still overhead) and use WASD to move them and the mouse to aim and shoot. This also goes for guns and vehicles.

Men of War is about as far away from the actiony-type of RTS/RTT games as you can get. It's all about micromanagement. Assault Squad moves the MoW franchise more to the action-based side, and it plays almost exactly like Company of Heroes with more realism and a depth of micromanagement if you want to get into it. MoW and MoW: Red Tide are about the single player campaign pretty much. The original is micromanagement-heavy, while Red Tide is a bit less so since there are a good deal of missions that just start out with a lot of soldiers being controlled by AI and you can assume control of them.

I enjoyed the MoW series, at least as long as I was able to keep progressing. There's not a lot of replayability for me because it's just so intense and takes forever the first time around.

[Xantalos]

Oh hell yes I'm watching this.

[Aoi]

Well, I'm sold.

[BigD145]

Humble Weekly Sale.

Get Prison Architect for 20 bucks. Oh, and all the other Introversion stuff too. Plus soundtracks and some source code.

[Sappho]

I'm definitely getting this because I always wanted to try Darwinia but never got around to it, the other stuff looks excellent as well and I'd never heard of most of it, and that video by the creators is really excellent.

The question is, is it worth paying the $20 for prison architect? Normally I only pay a few dollars for these bundles because 1. I'm a poor teacher in a central European country and 2. I usually end up playing the games intensely for a week or so and then getting bored and moving on. So what's the verdict on prison architect? It looks excellent of course, and they say it was influenced by DF, but should I spend my next month's worth of gaming money on it?

[ChairmanPoo]

I can echo your sentiment. Normally I'd dish out a couple of bucks to check it out, but I have all the games in the bundle, and the one I do not have peaks at 20 bucks, which is outside what I'm normally willing to pay.

[Mephisto]

There was a discussion of PA in the Steam thread when it was on sale during the summer sale.

I think I'll pass for now.