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Forbes
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Now Is A Great Time To Get Into Numenera With This Humble Bundle
Just your average day in the Ninth World. As we enter the second act of summer, a lot of folks are taking the time to head outside and enjoy the sunshine. The folks at Humble Bundle are making it easy for the indoor cats to enjoy their favorite activity. They currently have two massive role playing game book bundles for those of us who prefer to curl up in the air conditioning with a good book (or, in this case, a PDF). I discussed the Roll Big or Go Home bundle last week, so now it's time to talk about the Numenera bundle which features 45 titles at the highest level. This is a massive chunk of the game line for an amazing price. A portion of the proceeds benefit the ACLU. What Is Numenera? Numenera is a future fantasy roleplaying game where players explore The Ninth World. There are wrecks and relics full of unimaginable technology for the players to discover. It's like Dungeons & Dragons viewed through a post apocalyptic lens with Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law etched on the side: 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.' The Kickstarter that launched Numenera was one of the first big six figure successes in tabletop games. It created Monte Cook Games and was the first game to use the Cypher System. The line established many of the hallmarks of the company like simple rules, well-referenced rulebooks and stunning artwork. Numenera Corebooks This Humble Bundle offer contains the two main core books with Numenera: Discovery and Numenera: Destiny. It also contains the Numenera Player's Guide to share with the table. The guide contains everything a player needs to know about the setting and how to make characters. FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder These books expand the original core book with new classes, player options and information about the Ninth World. They keep the focus on exploration and discovery while also adding more advice and guidance on the communities where characters live in between their adventures. Even a billion years in the future, players want characters back home to protect, family members to love and rivals to defeat. Numenera Adventures The core books contain some adventures to get Game Masters started but it's always good to have more ready to go. They can serve as inspiration, be split up into original stories, or even be last minite drop ins for those weeks when game prep is too much. My favorite adventure in this offer is Escape From The Jade Colossus. It drops players into Numenera's version of a megadungeon and challenges them with shifting rooms, deadly creatures and an iconic location. It's great for players who want to kick off a campaign to try out the game as a one shot. Numenera Locations The Jade Colossus is but one of many weird locations in the Ninth World. There's a guide book to the entire world that can inspire GMs as well as a collection of smaller locations called Vertices. Any one of these books could be the basis of a campaign. There are also books that detail specific types of areas. I really enjoyed Into The Night which suggests that our planet is not the only thing that's changed over the millenia. It makes perfect sense that if this game is about sicence fantasy, why not include a campaign option that heads out into the stars? Numenera Bestiaries Adversaries are an important part of any campaign. With strange devices that defy the laws of science a we know them, that kicks it up a notch for the wild animals and monsters that inhabit these dangerous spaces. There are three books of antagonists available as part of the Humble Bundle. Non Player Characters are simple in the Cypher System with a level rating that stands as a general difficulty number and a handful of special powers. Simple, however, does not mean uninteresting and each gets a page long write up complimented by the excellent art team. It's very easy to flip through these books, get caught by a great bit of art and then suddenly start dreaming up a proper scenario. Numenera Sourcebooks Numenera has been around Numenera Glimmers
Forbes
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
My Favorite Titles In The Big Print RPG Humble Bundle Going On in July
57 titles from dozens of publishers providing hours of entertainment can be had for less than one ... More night at the movies. There is a massive Humble Bundle going on right now featuring 57 books from an alliance of role playing game publishers big and small. The Roll Big or Go Home RPG Megabundle has timeless classics, Kickstarter hits and indie upstarts. The top level can be had for a minimum pledge of $40 with a portion of the proceeds benefiting Extra Life. This article highlights some of my favorite titles out of the bundle. I already own several of these games and I still picked up this bundle to support charity and to encourage these publishers to offer their titles in bundles such as these. For anyone looking to see what's in the world of role playing games outside of Dungeons & Dragons, this is a massive opportunity to try something new. Apocalypse World 2nd Edition There's something thrilling about the end of the world. Whether battling mutants aboard deaththrucks rattling down a broken highway or picking through the ruins of the world before for treasures, post-apocalyptic games share many of the themes of classic fantasy games. Apocalypse World 2nd Edition lets groups build their own doomed world and play out the struggles to survive within. This game has also become one of the most influential games of the past 20 years with a simple, fast system that embraces the fiction. The character classes don't just define the character but they also weave the complex web of relationships within the player's circle. Everyone has a say on how the world ends here, taking a little weight off the GM's shoulders. Call of Cthulhu This stone cold classic celebrated its 40th anniverary a few years ago. Call of Cthulhu flipped a lot of gaming conventions on their head with characters that degraded over time and scenarios that rewarded fleeing monsters instead of slaying them. While investigating the Cthulhu Mythos is bad for the character health, that hasn't stopped players from coming back again and again. FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder It could be argued that at this point more people have come to know Cthulhu through spin off media than H.P. Lovecraft's original writings. Call of Cthulhu is one of the big reasons for that shift. It's one of the first gams that offered players a hidden world to explore underneath the one we all know to be real. Cyberpunk RED Just because we might be already living in a cyberpunk dystopia doesn't mean you shouldn't play a game in one. Cyberpunk RED has taken advantage of the popularity of Cyberpunk 2077 to bring one of the most influential games of the 80s and 90s back to a place of prestige on the shelves of local gaming stores. Sometimes, gaming through it, is the best way to deal an uncertain real world. Picking up the core book in this offer unlocks a massive amount of additional content. Publisher R. Talsorian Games puts out free DLC on a regular basis that expands the rules, offers new gear and new inspirations for Game Masters. Night City lives and breathes just like any real world place, choom. Masks: A New Generation While Avatar Legends is the bigger name from Magpie Games in this bundle, Masks: A New Generation is my favorite game from the publisher. It's a Powered By The Apocalypse game that emulates teen superhero comics like Teen Titans and Invincible. The game focuses on the teenage experience, making mistakes and shifting identities. Rather than hit points, characters take conditions that reflect negative emotional states. The conditions act as guides to role play an emotional teenager and give penalties to certain action. The cleverest bit of design is that to get rid of the condition, the player must take rash, unthinking actions or dramatic mistakes like unintentionally hurting someone they love or stubbornly trying to do something they can't. Mazes There are a lot of games in the space that want to feel like the way things 'used to be'. Modern D&D tends towards high fantasy and cinematic action. Classic D&D is weirder, darker and bloodier. Mazes captures that older feel by playing just the most important parts of the dungeon. Characters are built around a single die with the GM having a pool of darkness points that reflect how dangerous the situation is at the moment. This is a great choice for people who have old D&D modules they want to play without grinding through endless hallways and small encounters to get to the good stuff. Outgunned Action movies exist in their own version of the fantasy genre. From James Bond to Fast and the Furious, these series bend the laws of physics and tell mythic tales of CGI enhanced heroism. Outgunned is set in the world of these wild blockbuster films. The system uses a matched pool of dice rather than a set difficulty number that speeds up play. Characters are built from combining a broad Role, like the Commando or the Nobody, with a dramatic Trope like being a Lone Wolf or a Jerk With A Heart of Gold. This game is built for short two or three session runs that can always return as the inevitable sequel. Spire These are revolutionary times and Spire puts players inside a doomed revolution. They are the underclass in a fantasy city ruled by high elves that are thrown together to strike back at their callous, rich overlords. Anyone who loved the sticky morality of Andor should check out this game. While it is high fantasy, the classes are weird, idiosyncratic and memorable. Why play a wizard when you can play a Vermissian Sage, who knows the secrets of the decommissioned magic subway syste, in the city? Though they may not free the city of Spire from the high elves, the story about how they went down swinging will be one for the ages. Warhammer Fantasy Role Play Warhammer seems to be perched to have its moment after years of living in D&D's shadow. What started as a miniatures game has evolved to a multimedia IP with novels, video games and, Emperor willing, a TV show starring superfan Henry Cavill. Warhammer Fantasy Role Play helped build this house and this edition is a great way to learn about the greatest grimdark setting of the 80s. This is a classic dark fantasy game with a rich world that's been developed over decades. It has its own European flavor that mixed cultures inspired by real world history and eldritich horrors waiting to tear eveything down. The real suprise is how darkly funny the whole thing can be. Wildsea Role playing games are often the most fun when they are very strange. Wildsea is one of the strangest in recent memory. Players sail a chainsaw ship acorss the tops of a vast ocean of trees that grow back almost instantaneously caused by Verdancy. Ships usually go with pirates in this space and, while that can be true, exploration is one of the focuses of the game. One of the example adventures features players raiding a vast library of books from the world before the Verdancy. It's hard to convey a sense of wonder these days, and Wildsea nails it. This Humble Bundle runs through July 21st, 2025.
CNET
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CNET
Play On, Gamers. Humble Choice Is Now Just $7 for New Subscribers
Gaming is a lot of fun, but it's an expensive hobby. That's why subscription services have become really popular with gamers of all kinds, allowing you cheaper access to games that your budget may not allow for otherwise. If you enjoy PC gaming, don't sleep on your chance to save over 40% on a new Humble Choice subscription. Humble Bundle has slashed the cost of a Humble Choice membership for new subscribers, so you'll pay just $7 for your first month. Just be sure to use promo code JUNE25 to score the deal. CNET is owned by the same parent company as Humble Bundle, however this deal has been selected independently by our shopping experts for its value. When you sign up, you'll get a curated mix of PC games every month although the catalog sometimes includes games for the Nintendo Switch as well. This month that includes titles like Warhammer 40K: Boltgun. Additionally, you'll get a subscription to -- a solid tool for learning programming. Plus, you'll get access to the Humble Vault, which includes more than 50 Humble Original games for download. You'll also save up to 20% in the Humble Bundle store. And, a nice 5% of your membership fee goes to supporting charity each month. Hey, did you know? CNET Deals texts are free, easy and save you money. After your first month your membership will continue at the regular rate of $12 per month, but you can skip a month or cancel anytime. With that much flexibility, this is a great time to try it out for yourself. Why this deal matters Any time you can get access to top-tier games at a discounted price, that's a win. Humble Choice can help you build your gaming library without spending a small fortune, so if you're curious about it why not try it out? A 40% discount makes this subscription even more affordable, allowing you a chance to see how you like it for under 10 bucks.
The Verge
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Verge
A humble price increase.
Posted Jun 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM UTC Humble's best known for curating video game bundles that give proceeds to charities. The Ziff Davis-owned company also sells a subscription called Choice, and I'm sorry if this is the first that you're hearing of it because I'm here to tell you that it's getting more expensive on July 1st, according to a screenshot of an email shared by Wario64 on Bluesky. It's increasing from $11.99 per month to $14.99. Choice offers a new batch of PC games to subscribers every month that you can keep even if you cancel the subscription. It also grants discounts at its Humble Store, including some decent deals on digital Switch 2 games.
Geek Tyrant
15-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Build Your Games Library with 3 Humble Bundles — GeekTyrant
I have three video game Humble Bundles for you to check out and save while getting some great games. First, the Badass Brawlers (affiliate link) bundle offers seven beat-'em-up games for the low price of $16. Valued at $179, this bundle is 100% worth it in my opinion for just having Dawn of the Monsters , River City Girls , and River City Girls 2 . Those three games are all really fun (especially the River City Girls games) and worth every penny of the $16 in my opinion. In addition, each purchase will support SpecialEffect which 'is the only specialised UK-based charity dedicated to helping ALL people with disabilities enjoy video games – from injured soldiers to young disabled people who can't play any other way, whether they are in a hospital, hospice, rehabilitation centre or at home.' This bundle is available until June 18. Second, the IGN Live 2025 (affiliate link) bundle offers eight games valued at $239 for only $22. This bundle includes the very popular Slay the Spire as well as The Medium and Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator that many gamers really enjoy. Each purchase of this bundle supports Child's Play Charity which 'works to channel the goodwill of the worldwide gaming community into video games and game systems for sick children in hospitals.' This bundle will be available until June 20. Finally, the Power Up Pride (affiliate link) bundle looks to celebrate games with positive portrayals of LGBTQIA+ themes and characters with seven titles for only $13. The bundle is valued at $122 and titles include Welcome to Elk , Sticky Business , and Heart of the Woods which each have at least 95% positive reviews on Steam so there must be something to them. Each purchase of this bundle will support Xperience Studios, 'a Black-led, Oakland-based 501c3 that provides professional entrepreneurs in the video game industry opportunities to become successful and build self-sustaining businesses.' You can purchase this bundle until June 30.
