Indieroyale Alpha Bundle

^+1 for this guy ^^

maybe some ppl did expect more then 3 shitty games for 5 bucks? this definately is the worst indie bundle until now. I know what alpha-status means, but come on.. it's not even worth a dollar to me. just my point of view.

Because they look similar.

It's why people compare the NES/SNES/GB Zelda games to (J)RPGs, even though they share pretty much only the top-down view and the colorful graphics, when the Zelda games are actually metroidvanias.

I figured that would be the case, but thanks for the confirmation.

Well that just made it a buy for me. I was going to ask support myself. The games look interesting enough for me to get, but I know I likely wouldn't play them unless on Steam. So the fact that, if they make it to Steam, I'll get keys for them makes the entire risk a bit more worth it.

Desura keys are provided for all 3 games.

Desura is not DRM. Steam is a limited form of DRM, yes, but the same can't be said of Desura. Desura itself "does not offer any digital rights management services, and Desura employees have commented against its use in the past, recommending that content producers ship without DRM or at least use a CD Key system instead".

You can download a demo for Towns on desura. It's limited to 20 in-game days of gameplay, but it's otherwise a full game. It's also really fun and the devs have solid plans for it with plenty of additions confirmed. I haven't heard of the other 2 games until now.

I can only add input for towns and 3079, and both games have demos.

I supported 3079 before this bundle, and was planning/thinking to do the same for Towns. Towns is, so far, an enjoyable sim/rts, and the idea behind it is very appealing to me... I haven't gotten too far into the game, but from what I've read and been told about what is to come, it seems really interesting. The whole idea is that you tell the villages what to do, and they do it to the best of their efforts. You get them to gather materials, build buildings and objects. Then there are uh.. heroes that will travel and stay in your town (depending on how good it is) and they'll go on quests, into the dungeons and get money and such. The dungeons are like.. the second "floor" down, so you'll have to be careful to not dig too deep too soon, else the monsters will come out and destroy your town/the people in it. I'm not a fan of some of the noises... but that's not something that will kill the game to me..

Now for 3079, at first look it may be seen as a minecraft clone with guns. While the game itself isn't very complex at this point, and can be a bit hard (at least from my experience)... and the controls need some work, imo... I hate hitting esc to close things and get the "are you sure you want to exit" screen... But, the game isn't like minecraft at all. There is very little block destroying, and very little "building" like minecraft. The game has some quests, and it has a story line, be it a short.. and rather easy one. The developer is working rather hard on it, and takes ideas seriously, and communicates well with the people who have feedback. I can't say anything about the devs for towns, as I haven't tried to talk to them at this point in time. I enjoyed the music for this game, but there is no volume control and it can all get very loud >< I have to turn it down a bit via the mixer... I hope to see that fixed at some point....

I don't know anything of the other game :(

EDIT:

there's a lot more to towns than what I've said... but I haven't played way too much of it personally.

Same for 3079, there's more to it than what I've said, and the dev has a lot of plans! He wants to change models up for the guns, and wants to do something like borderlands (randomly generate gun stuff). to me the games all seem worth supporting, and I'm glad to see this bundle! I'm sure the devs, come when the games are complete and (hopefully) on steam, they'll be willing to help with steam keys! Puppygames has done that for their games, and I believe the devs for Project Zomboid said something about dong the same...

Overgrowth is done by Wolfire Games, guys behind the Humble Bundle. I seriously doubt that you get to see it run in any other bundle before HB.

Hear, hear!

+1 another guy who likes it ^^ (wanna play it togheter someday? (dont have it yet but tommorow i will (its 23:52 here)) Steam nickname is FreeFury)

Whats so good about having them on steam? Having them stuck to DRM? Hmm?

They might be 'steamable' in the future, btw.

Minecraft and terraria were very similar, thats not the best example. I dont really think that if Minecraft was 2d it would look/play much differently. (based on experiences with terraria and minecraft 6 months ago, might not apply anymore)

As well the one game looks like it could be a Minecraft mod, so its fair to say its like Minecraft and something else combined.

Why is that? Be specific, give details.

Yes, including the final version, and yes, you also get steam keys if the games come out on Steam.