As the chilly winter ends, Indie Royale is debuting six quality, independent games for its Spring Bundle - altogether worth nearly $50 USD, and available now at less than one tenth of the recommended retail price, with the price increasing (and decreasing!) as more buyers jump on!
The bundle starts off with Futuremark's standout tower defense title Unstoppable Gorg, available for Windows and Mac on Steam, and Windows-only for Desura/DRM-free. The game is packed with campy 1950s sci-fi film nostalgia, with TotalBiscuit praising its "interesting and innovative [gameplay] mechanics", as the player takes on rubbery aliens by rotating weapons through outer-space orbits.
Also featured is Soldak Entertainment's in-depth action RPG Depths of Peril, available for Windows and Mac on Steam, Desura, and DRM-free. The title, described by GamesRadar as "Diablo meets STALKER" on its original release, features tens of hours of questing and combat in a living game world, where competing factions - run by the AI - battle the player for supremacy.
Also joining the Spring Bundle is Secret Base's smile-inducing 2D platformer, Tobe's Vertical Adventure, for Windows on Steam. The alluring 16-bit experience offers two characters with distinct platforming mechanics. Tobe and his crush, Nana, star in what IGN calls a "standout platformer" with a "classic gameplay hook and charmingly nostalgic approach."
Finally, Indie Royale favorite Radiangames (Super Crossfire) returns with not one, but _three_ intense arcade-style titles - available DRM-free and on Desura for Windows and Mac. Inferno is a 40+ level, atmospheric twin-stick action-RPG starring drones. Slydris is an addictive block-based puzzler with a catchy electronica soundtrack, and Ballistic's intense twin-stick Geometry Wars-style arcade action is filled with concentric waves of devious enemies.
Finally, those who pay $5 USD or their currency equivalent during the Spring Bundle get Danimal Cannon's 'Roots' music album - one of the most acclaimed chiptune releases of 2011, and featuring a combination of wicked Game Boy DMG-01 and shreddin' guitar-centric remixes in 320k .MP3 and .FLAC formats.
As always, generous purchasers keep the bundle price low and give more to developers, as Indie Royale runs on its familiar short duration model where the price will automatically increase as more people buy the bundle.
Grab it now at: Indieroyale.com
I gotta be honest guys, it feels like Indie Royale is push out bundles a little too often. If Skinner taught us anything, it was that breaks between things can pay off more in the long run.
Well Skinner was a radical behaviorist who believed that we are in the same likeness as rats and can virtually have no free will-- (his beliefs are no longer mainstream psychology as well.) Not discrediting his work by any means, it just seems that when people think psychology they think Freud or Skinner. Which is in no way a retrospect of the way psychology has progressed and is viewed academically today. Also according to Skinner's studies it is much more rewarding not knowing when the reward will be given, creating a much more satisfied stimuli. Pigeons will exaggeratedly dance before they receive their reward, even though the reward is given in set incriminates. Thus making them believe their responses are truly what's rewarding them.
Good games, but I'm disappointed that there are no Linux games at all this time.
Not a single game for Linux, again? no buying then...
Yes, these Bundles are starting to just become normal and not a "Wow, look at that!" kind of thing.
Not to mention, because of this, the quality of the games found in the Indie Royale has dropped quite abit.
My point. Used to be, a bundle always had a game I'd want... now it has titles I've never heard of.
Funny how each time people are disappointed by assuming it is what it is not. You check it out and decide if you want it. You dont brag about purchase you didnt make in the comments, because noone cares, simple.
And I expect IR more than HB, exactly because of titles that isnt mainstream. I like to dicover new games and not own half of them before the purchase..
If only for Depths of Peril, I recommand this bundle.
Really enjoyed the games in this one.
Nice bundle but, OH CRAP, i purchased Radiangames bundle from their site earlier for crazy 20$. If i only known...
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