💰 Groupees - Tax Year 3: Late + Penalties + Natural Disasters 💰

$0.67 minimum preorder

$1.11 for 6 games + 2 albums + 1 other

09 Sep - 23 Sep 2017


Tier 1 - $1.11

Game Ratings Cards Bundled Retail Price
Island Flight Simulator 15% of 19 reviews - 1 $6.99
1914: Prelude to Chaos 40% of 25 reviews 5 $0.99
Garshasp: Temple of the Dragon 26% of 60 reviews - 8 $4.99
Garshasp: The Monster Slayer 51% of 176 reviews - 9 $4.99

Bonus unlocked:

Game Ratings Cards Bundled Retail Price
Ferrum's Secrets: Where Is Grandpa? 41% of 36 reviews 5 $4.99
  • Mystery game
  • Grab Bag
  • -$1 Deluxe Mega Saver Coin
  • Music album: Gremlinz 3 - by B.A. Johnston 🎶
  • Music Album: BARDCORE - by Library Bards 🎶

Possible Grab Bag Contents:

Game Ratings Cards Bundled Retail Price RND
Half Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax Ultimate Boy 90% of 802 reviews - 2 $9.99 MKG, TEH, PWE, FUP, DJH
Avernum: Escape From the Pit 92% of 512 reviews - 2 $9.99 ARG, NIE
King's Bounty: Armored Princess 90% of 317 reviews - 3 $9.99 QHT
A-Train 8 50% of 22 reviews - 1 $19.99 KVA, DGG, PKE, CUQ,PVZ
Men of War: Red Tide 81% of 207 reviews - 6 $4.99 CLV, CVT
Grave Prosperity: Redux- part 1 43% of 16 reviews - 2 ? EWD, GMO, TLC, GXN, TQP, ESK, FWZ
Secret of the Magic Crystals 82% of 558 reviews 6 $4.99 MJR, RJU, BNN, CJF, CFL, TTG
Avernum Bundle 82% of 41 reviews - 0 $11.99 FGB, CKL, AVF, BVN, WUS
Oddworld Pack 92% of 1,154 reviews 0 $4.99 CGR, BNK, BUE, XBM
Eryi's Action 90% of 668 reviews 3 $4.99 BVX, OHB
Airport Simulator 2014 10% of 496 reviews - 6 $9.99 CQV
Miasmata 77% of 708 reviews - 2 $14.99 NRE, GVC, UIA, RFS
Heavy Fire: Shattered Spear 46% of 30 reviews 1 $3.99 TBB, BYP
Redshirt 41% of 187 reviews - 1 $9.99 CSA, NPQ
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 84% of 732 reviews - 3 $9.99 CGF, DHN, EBU, NHS, ZKJ
Mirrored - Chapter 1 75% of 60 reviews 1 $1.99 ?
Duke Nukem 2 (removed from the store) 86% of 82 reviews - 4 ? BXF, BOR
Blades of the Righteous 90% of 10 reviews 2 $2.99 ?

☠ - Game was free at some time and does not grant any CV if given away.

Retail:

  • $22.95 + Grab Bag

CV:

  • 3.4425 + Grab Bag

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30.0% of your payment will be donated to United We Dream


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How many steam keys are in this bundle?
cyanicGroupees HQ22:38
It's a mystery. Though I think for all the games that I can see they have Steam keys.
cyanicGroupees HQ22:41
It's a tax year bundle. There are going to be shenanigans.

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7 years ago*

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Taxation, yay or nay?

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Tax me all the way (preorder)!
Tax me later (post-release buy)!
Don't Tax me, bro!
Down with Taxation, we demand Representation - not Rebundling.
The wait is too Taxing, I need hints.

Well the bonus mystery unlocked will be a Groupees exclusive: Jonny Run

7 years ago
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Ew, random games without being labeled. XP

Ferrum's Secrets, by the way, is flipping HILARIOUS. Total so bad it's good bait. It also has the most stupidly hard mode of any HOG I can think of. Just felt like sharing, in case anyone cares about it. >_>

7 years ago
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I know right :P

7 years ago
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Not sure which of those you're agreeing with but you have a cute Ruby avatar so hey there's that? =3

7 years ago
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the Ferrum's secrets part

7 years ago
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7 years ago
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That usually means their still trying to secure a game for that slot and as such don't actually have anything to reveal.

7 years ago
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Is it sad that I'm still hoping for Bad Rats?

7 years ago
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Knowing that Groupees are way behind with their Be Mines, it's probable that the Groupees larder is pretty empty, including rats. ;-)

7 years ago
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At this point I wouldn't be surprised if they dump another grab bag on us as the mystery game as I'm pretty sure they've done that before. They really should just stop putting extra slots in bundles when they know they can't fill them.

7 years ago
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Mystery Game is poised to be the #1 indie hit of the year

7 years ago
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True, but the year is 2038 and the only survivors of the nuclear holocaust are cockroaches and Digital Homicide.

7 years ago
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Sale ended, mystery game was not revealed... Ouch!

7 years ago
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It is their joke/trolling bundle, after all... :P

7 years ago
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Huh, I just remembered that I had to check this bundle to see what that mystery game was and... nothing. That's a new level of disappointment from groupees, impressive.

7 years ago
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Wow. Groupees can always sink to lower depths despite what you may think.

7 years ago
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Mystery Game - still a mystery :D

7 years ago
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I've filled a dispute with PayPal on the grounds of "item not as described" and "false advertising". If Groupees haven't responded by tomorrow, which will have been a week I'll be escalating it to a claim.

7 years ago
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I mentioned the mystery game not being revealed in Groupees' chat and got a response of "That's the joke."

I get the joke... I just think it's kind of misleading and a dick move to do. Good luck with the dispute.

7 years ago
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Well they haven't responded to the dispute yet and I really don't think that'll really hold up when I escalate it to a claim and PayPal are looking into it. The mystery game was specifically included in the " 8 + 3 + 1 other" if they'd included it as an other then they would have had a point but they specifically advertised 8 games which they didn't deliver.

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I mean, as a joke it wouldn't be so bad, if it were a bit more obvious and cleverly made, but the timing is quite unfortunate. Firstly the fact that it isn't April 1st (I know it says Late in the title thou but the title brings us to another topic) or any particular funny/themed holiday/period, secondly the inclusion of the "Natural Disasters" part. I mean, for some it might be a bit uncalled for (disrespectful even) combining a joke bundle with the recent events and some might even mistake it for a sort of charity bundle for such disasters as well, just like the Mexico Relief one (based only on the title), thirdly, if I remember correctly they actually advertised it as an upcoming mystery game at one point, they could've just said something "Will unlock in 3017" or "Will unlock when the sun rises in the west and sets in the east" or I don't know, I am no PR advisor/expert and I am just throwing my opinion in, without any ill will or anything, just trying some constructive criticism here and there.

7 years ago
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Absolutely agree. There is NO indication that it's anything but a regular Mystery Game other than the BAB afterwards having the exact date of its mystery game reveal being listed (I'm guessing they were worried about them pulling this "joke" twice in a row).

It's not funny and it's getting kind of obvious that Groupees doesn't actually want Steam users anymore anyways since they seem to be almost exclusively about programming pdfs and music now.

That's a shame since I enjoyed their service for years and even had my own band in a community bundle and a Be Mine.

7 years ago
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Looks like the joke's over. They added the itch.io key for the game just now.
Lost & Found - https://shiftyslug.itch.io/lost-found

7 years ago
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100USD....what a disgusting jerk!

7 years ago
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WOW! That made this bundle totally worth it in value! Retail is now $122.95 (CV is still the same, though).

Just kidding, maybe the ultimate joke is the retail price for the mystery game (´ڡ`)

7 years ago
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Maybe free to giveaway later. :D

7 years ago
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Maybe. ;-)

7 years ago
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I guess this is somehow a representation of our faith: Our once lost is now found.

7 years ago
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Crap, non-steam.

7 years ago
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A joke game it seems, they probably just threw it together in a rush to cover up their f*ck up.
And no Bad Rats whatsoever in the end :(

7 years ago
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As an update to my earlier post I just received a refund from PayPal for this bundle. I filed the initial dispute on 26/09 and elevated it to a claim on 03/10 after Groupees failed to respond within a week. The claim elevation happened before the "mystery game" was revealed., and even after the game was revealed and the itch.io page went live it was clear this was just some shit they'd thrown together as quick as possible to try and appease people. In fact Groupees prior admittance that these mystery games were placeholders for unsecured products was part of my dispute that there was no reason we should see it as a joke. Anyway, PayPal gave them 10 days to respond after elevating the dispute to a claim and again they failed to do so so Paypal ruled in my favour and issued the refund.

Things might not play out the same now that their piss-poor excuse for a game has been revealed but if you're unhappy with Groupees attitude in this case it may still be worth giving it a try as Paypal already have all the details regarding the product in question and the sellers lack of response

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