Summer Games Done Quick, the week-long charity speedrun event, is set to kick off on June 30 and features a whole bunch of extremely skillful players blasting through a huge number of games. In honor of the event, Humble is offering the Summer Games Done Quick Bundle, with seven of the very games you can watch speedrunners demolish, offering a chance for you to play them as you watch and see just how much you need to continue to hone your skills.
As is usually the case with Humble, the SGDQ Bundle comes with a tiered pricing system that lets you pick your price and the games you want. For $12, the lowest tier, you get three games: stealth immersive sim Dishonored, Contra-like side-scroller Blazing Chrome, and non-Euclidian first-person shooter Hyperbolica. Bump the price up to $15, and Humble adds The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore. At $20, you get the full seven-game bundle, adding Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 and Penny’s Big Breakaway.
Humble Bundles support charities as well as game developers, and you can pay more than the asking price to increase your donation. The SGDQ Bundle supports Doctors Without Borders, just like SGDQ does.
All the games in the bundle are well-regarded, but there are a couple of recently released standouts you might not have heard of. Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore is a side-scrolling Metroidvania that harkens back to the CD-ROM era–specifically to Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, the 1989 CD-i game that featured bad animation and worse voice acting. Arzette is playing with that same aesthetic to great effect, making it fast, fun, and funny in equal measure.
There’s also Penny’s Big Breakaway, a 3D platformer drawing a lot from the aesthetic, vibe, and gameplay of 3D Sonic games–in fact, it was developed by Evening Star, a studio formed from the fan developers responsible for Sonic Mania. An extremely colorful art style compliments its fast and reactive approach to platforming.
Also notable in the SGDQ bundle are a couple of excellent Bethesda titles. Morrowind, of course, is the well-loved RPG that preceded The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and the now truly ubiquitous The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, but Morrowind has a special place in the hearts of many fans. Dishonored, developed by Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda, is also worthy of your attention if you’ve never gotten around to playing it, whether you love slipping through various levels unseen or slicing through your foes with a mess of creative paranormal powers.
Humble Summer Games Done Quick Bundle
Pay at least $12
- Blazing Chrome
- Dishonored
- Hyperbolica
Pay at least $15
- Arzette
- Blazing Chrome
- Dishonored
- The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
- Hyperbolica
Pay at least $20
- Arzette
- Blazing Chrome
- Dishonored
- The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
- Hyperbolica
- Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2
- Penny’s Big Breakaway
If you’re in the mood for more Bethesda games, you’ve got additional options thanks to Fanatical‘s Build Your Own Bethesda Bundle. It features 16 games developed and published by Bethesda and its own shifting price scheme. You can get two Bethesda games for $7, three games for $10, or five games for $15. The bundle features Dishonored, Dishonored 2, Morrowind, and Oblivion, as well as lots of other options, including Doom 3, a bunch of Quake games, Machinegames’ Wolfenstein titles, both entries in The Evil Within franchise, and more.
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