Indie Royale - Bundles of great indie games for dirt cheap prices

RainbowDespair

The new Indie Royale is up. It's a whole bunch of Serious Sam.

Serious Sam: The First and Second Encounter
Serious Sam: The Random Encounter
Serious Sam Double D
Serious Sam: Kamikaze Attack
Serious Sam: The Greek Encounter

TychoCelchuuu

You're not kidding about the "whole bunch of Serious Sam" stuff. They're sort of tardy with their emails: I still haven't gotten a notice in my inbox.

Big Classy

I have the two big Serious Sam games but I still paid £3 because I live these guys.

Bullio

RainbowDespair wrote:

The new Indie Royale is up. It's a whole bunch of Serious Sam.

Serious Sam: The First and Second Encounter
Serious Sam: The Random Encounter
Serious Sam Double D
Serious Sam: Kamikaze Attack
Serious Sam: The Greek Encounter

meh

What's The Greek Encounter?

RainbowDespair

Greek Encounter is a $1 dual stick shooter with Serious Sam characters. The video didn't look too exciting.

pablo_price

finally registered a desura account. went from 0 to 53 games in 5 minutes.
I favorite'd the 5 that aren't on steam

Sumanai

pablo_price wrote:

finally registered a desura account. went from 0 to 53 games in 5 minutes.
I favorite'd the 5 that aren't on steam

I'm considering doing this too. So many games to register and a few that are Desura only.
Does it work just like Steam? Hope it isn't a memory hog.

Catshade

Sumanai wrote:

But Serious Sam games aren't really indie games are they? With the exception of DoubleD.
That kinda misses the point of all these indie bundles.

The latest HIB contains Shank, which were published by EA. The Steam keys can even be redeemed in Origin if you want to.

Drake

pablo_price wrote:

finally registered a desura account. went from 0 to 53 games in 5 minutes.
I favorite'd the 5 that aren't on steam

I did pretty much the same thing with the first Royale Bundle, not that many games though. I'm glad I did, if you are into quirky indy stuff (which I assume you are, being in this thread and all) there are some really worthwhile things on Desura. Like Sonar for instance. The Alpha Funding page of the store is nice too, and an idea I really like. Which reminds me, I hope Kenshi is part of the Alpha Fund Bundle that's coming up soon.

ElkoVituci

meh..., kind of bad this one

Sumanai

Catshade wrote:

Sumanai wrote:

But Serious Sam games aren't really indie games are they? With the exception of DoubleD.
That kinda misses the point of all these indie bundles.

The latest HIB contains Shank, which were published by EA. The Steam keys can even be redeemed in Origin if you want to.

Publishers are different from developers. Shank was developed by an indie company. Bastion is also an indie game but was published by Warner Brothers for example. But yes, I now understand that Serious Sam's Croteam is a small indie-ish company.

pablo_price

from their email newsletter:

Going forward, we're planning to stick to one 'big' monthly bundle (the next being the Valentine's bundle, opening pre-orders in early February!), and keeping everyone interested with more lightning packs and our Alphas offering - finally coming in mid-February.

Big Classy

Gonna sign up for desura tonight seeing as I've got plenty of games for it

pablo_price

preorder for the valentine's bundle is up. looks like they upped the base minimum purchase to $4, so I guess it makes sense to preorder now

The games offered this time include a fantastical first-person action-adventure game (Steam for PC), an IGF-nominated puzzle adventure title (Steam for PC and Mac, Desura for PC and Linux, DRM-free PC, Mac and Linux download), a 'scorching' single and multiplayer arcade-strategy game (Steam for PC and Mac), and a world premiere on PC for a pair of retro RPG-defense games (Desura for PC, DRM-free PC download).

Drake

I own so many indie games now I'm just not comfortable pre-ordering these things sight unseen with vague hints.

Teriferin

Those retro RPG defense games sound promising.

Bullio

Drake wrote:

I own so many indie games now I'm just not comfortable pre-ordering these things sight unseen with vague hints.

Especially considering the IRB's have been rather lackluster overall.

pablo_price

Teriferin wrote:

Those retro RPG defense games sound promising.

the speculation is Soulcaster 1 & 2, which are pretty good games

Pereza0

Any ideas of what games they might be?

SkutSkut

I dunno but I went ahead and preordered, figured 4 dollars for 4 games is fine especially if they're 10 each on release.

Corpekata

Scorching title has got to be Hoard. Steam only game, fits everything. Maybe Zeno Clash for the 1st person game (another Steam only title).

SkutSkut

Oh man if it's Zeno Clash I'll be so happy. :lol:

HuntingNoob

I'm thinking Hoard and Zeno Clash too.

Sumanai

Since this time the pre-order price is the minimum price it can fall to I think I'll go ahead and buy it anyway.
Even if it ends up being games I'm not interested in or already have you can always gift the extra keys.

HuntingNoob

Valentine's bundle is now live.

Zeno Clash for: steam (pc)
Hoard for: steam (pc and mac)
*BONUS* Includes individual keys for two DLC packs.
Lume for: windows, mac, linux, desura, steam (pc and mac)
Soulcaster for: windows, desura
BONUS: Soulcaster II for: windows, desura


http://www.indieroyale.com/

Lord_Snot

Eh...

I'll probably buy it, but that's a bit underwhelming.

NailbunnyPD

PA G&T Adventure Team only.

RainbowDespair

Soulcaster 1 & 2 are awesome. They're like Gauntlet with a tower defense bent (instead of regular attacks, you temporarily summon warriors who fight for you).

Hoard's a fun arcade score attack game but I found the PC version to be buggy.

Can't comment on the other 2 though I've heard good things.

an_alt

I trust RD's taste that when he says something's awesome, it is awesome. Bundle purchased.

Maddoc

the bundle is absolutely worth it for Zeno Clash if you don't already have it

Just consider the rest of the bundle a bonus

TychoCelchuuu

Zeno Clash is one of my favorite games. It's a wonderful brawler and an extremely unique experience overall.

rikdaly

Maddoc wrote:

the bundle is absolutely worth it for Zeno Clash if you don't already have it

Just consider the rest of the bundle a bonus

That was pretty much my exact reasoning when I bought it, the other games look pretty decent too so it's a nice bonus

Darmak

The Soulcaster games are fucking amazing and worth getting alone, and Zeno Clash is also very very good.

Corpekata

Best bundle going at the moment if you ask me, and I say that as someone that dislikes Hoard.

Drake

Hoard is fun to play here and there. In a mindless kind of score-attack way. If you like the theme and presentation it's not terrible.