There are no game bundles in Humble Bundle right now

Many things have changed since 2013.
I think that more than 10k every year games are realized nowadays (including all the trash and the limited featured games) since 2018 or around there were lots and lots of more realized every year.
About bundles, I think that Valve doesn't give unlimited amount of keys now, and the time line may be from valve too, and bundle pages doesn't have power over that. But no idea how that's works.
There are more and more limitation to keys also, about reviews for games activated by key and not buyed directly from steam and similar
So, they are fighting this problems and changing how the market works. About delisting games too, the "look" I'm gonna remove my trash game notifications, just to sell to collectors, even if the game is pure trash.
But in the other hand, I feel that nowadays there are more good indies companies realizing interesting games than before, and they can take a little part of the market and have some profit to keep making games.
Sorry for my basic english

technically choice is a game bundle... so there is 1 ongoing.

I'm sad to see that bundles are almost extinct tbh. I discovered many great games I'd never have bought on their own, in bundles I bought for other games.

I don't know if many people would buy single-key bundles, even if that was a possibility with Steam, which I'm sure it's not.
I guess it would depend on the bundle but that would also be a problem with the amount of rebundles in the few bundles we get now.

I hate single key bundles. It's rare I want every game in a bundle in my Steam library.

Resellers and grey market ruined it for legit users sure,but they were probably more relevant in the past tbh...

in 2025 my perspective is that we should be grateful Steam bundles still exist in some form(for now...). At this point why would any remotely respectable looking game toss itself into a bundle? Nowadays devs/publishers can simply get paid for their game to become a freebie on Epic/Gog/Amazon/M$ Game Pass and whatever other platform desperate for traffic and relevance. Devs/publishers get paid,but the game doesn't become perma devalued because Steam competitors don't bother/can't/won't improve their store/client and would rather pump everything into freebies. Thus people will still end up buy the game on Steam,more expensively then they would in a bundle for cents.

So nowadays they get paid twice to not bundle themselfs.

I've missed tons of games on Humble Bundle. I haven't been playing indie games lately, except Chernobylite. Is Satisfactory indie? I can't remember, but a lot of Satisfactory. I can't remember seeing a bundleless Humble time.

I remember a time when bundles were a penny.

Hey, when there was on average more than one a week somewhere around november-december, people still complained about the quality.

Also January is just horrible for businesses, people generally spend in December like there is no tomorrow, then cut back in January (plus resolutions about spending less, etc). It's financial sleepy-time.

I have been wondering as well what is going on as there were no new normal bundles on humble the past few weeks. Still wouldn't have expected we would come to the point that the "game bundles" category would be empty.

Interesting. They'll probably drop a couple next week. I think they kinda ran out of re-runs and it's probably taking some extra time beginning of year to work out deals with publishers and devs for some new bundles to appear. That plus, I would think they would like to sort out the issue of overselling bundles or understocking games in said bundles.

WIth the news of Humble Games (not bundle) winding down by "restructuring", lay-offs and such.. and Ziff Davis (owner) doing the same to IGN, another big one, I kinda feel like Humble Bundle is also winding down on games too. e-books, courses and software no one buys are easier to churn out.

They havent had bundle I've gone "woah I might get it for those games!" in ages. Last sorta good one was the GDQ one but most of those games were from like what, 2016? "have a nice death" was 2023 but eh. But personal opinions really.

Last bundle I bought was the stealth one tier 2. Before that 2023 puzzle one and before that..2017 lol.

Blame Covid 😅

To be fair, I would prefer no bundles at all. Yeah, it means games are cheap, but each time I buy bundle for one game I want it somehow ends by activating x more games I will probably never play by that speed of activating games. I kinda stopped buy bundles for that reason. Yes, I maybe pay more for games, but only for ones I want to play or I just avoid buying games, cause I still have like 400 titles I haven't even tried.
A few times I slipped up and bought mystery bundle, so I have games to giveaway, but I do my best to buying unbundled interesting games more often than before. Mostly, cause I were accused from cheating and giving away trash. Apparently winning whitelist giveaways or high level giveaways is against some secret set of rules I am not aware of.

I do like bundles and I wouldnt mind seeing some new ones, but overall at least now I have time to actually play all the games Ive bought over the years. But considering there still comes Humble Choice out and now and then 1 decent regular bundle, the backlog is still building up. So overall its not that bad, but I am a bit biased, because I built up my library in the golden age of bundles... If I would have missed that period, I would have different opinion probably.

I'm going to try to not buy any game or bundle this year. It'll be hard and probably I'll trip a couple times on the road. But for now, 0 games bought in the first month.

Regarding alternative ways of delivering bundles, like one key for all, or keyless activation, it would lead to way less bundles sold. Taking off resellers from this, it would mean that all games I don't want or I already have would be lost. I couldn't give them away, or trade them. So I could buy a 10 game bundle from wherever for X bucks, knowing 3 will go to SG, one to a friend, and only six for me. But the same bundle, 6 for me and the rest lost, I wouldn't buy it. Sure the resellers are a problem, or THE problem, but if we the legit users get punished for them, bundles are dead.

Its true that January is a slow business month, specially at the end of it. And HB has always had less bundles than Fanatical, for example. But bundles will continue. Less bundles, worse bundles, more rebundled games, whatever. Slowly going downhill. But that downhill will take a couple of years at least IMHO. Bundles are still going on, that means they're profitable for publishers in the end. Less now than before? Sure. But on the fringe of making bundles disappear? Not yet. Again, IMHO.

(Note that there are 20 bundles at Fanatical ATM.)

If not completely delusional everyone selling a game in a bundle knows it'll be "burned" i.e. there's not a lot of money left to squeeze out of the product thereafter. Maybe this is the reason more developers are reluctant to work with bundle sites if their game isn't complete garbage.

to make more money, removed steam green light and game quality went to shit.
to make more money, they added steam awards and game forums went to shit.

I feel the only way to counter it and not get on the bad side of the consumers is just making key expiration dates more of a prominent feature on their bundles. I'd even be okay with them making it so that the keys have a few months of validity instead of over a year, but that's just me personally.

"As of now there are no purchaseable game bundles in Humble Bundle." This happens from time to time, no biggy. The next choice is 4 days away.
"2588 of these games are rated 80%" Yeah but most of those are free or very cheap self-published indie games with very low actual number of reviews.

"many devs are reluctant to bundle their best games because of availability in keyshops" Humble works with publishers, not devs. That's why you see usually the same publishers' games over and over again in the bundles, like SEGA, 2K, Aspyr, Curve Games, Daedalic Entertainment, Devolver Digital, Goblinz Publishing, Raw Fury, Team17, THQ Nordic, etc. And because games earn the most revenue in their first 2 years, bundled games are average 1-year-old titles. (Fun fact: Persona 4 Golden was one of the oldest games ever in Humble Choice, so guys, don't wait for more than 4 years for a game to get bundled) Furthermore, bundled games usually have one or more DLC that drive up sales or they are part of a series and the new one is around the corner

But here is a wild idea! You can use the downtime to actually play your games instead of hoarding them xD. Which is better buying 7-8 games for 15€/$ and never playing them, or buying 1 game for 15 bucks and playing it for 50 hours? (RDR2 is on sale for example for a very long and content-packed game) Furthermore, demos are a thing now again, so hoarding games so maybe you find the time to at least try them out is a waste of money. 1000 games that you buy in bundles like 1 buck each cost the same as buying 50 AAA games on sale for 20 bucks each or you can just support an indie dev and buy their full-priced 15-20 bucks game on release day and actually take the time to experience them fully! Here is your food for thought for the day ;)

i'd hate to have redeem every single game from a bundle, but having them separate encourages hoarding & selling on keyshops, like you said. I think the keys should just have a set deadline, like the keys from jingle jam ^^ so that it doesnt hurt the developers for such a long time.

I'm in favor of expiring keys for the bigger titles in bundles since those are the main draws. I just feel bad for indie devs, such a lose lose. They need bundles to find new players, but get punished by the grey market for their efforts. It's gotta be disheartening to see the game you worked so hard on get reduced to pennies by some random user who thinks the genre is trash.

Just as expected, 2025 might just be the year bundle sites go under in their entirety. HB and Fanatical were the only ones left to "hold the fort", at least as far as bundled AA (and the occasional AAA) titles are concerned. Indiegala's been a joke for a very long time now.

It's been a good run, I didn't even join the party at the right time (circa 2014), but still enjoyed the Steam gaming bundle concept (a BIT too much perhaps) since 2016 to present day. It's been nothing short of noticeable diminishing returns on this front since the pandemic ended.

The writing was on the wall, indie devs and publishers don't require the same promotion they once did, nor are they accepting the rapid devaluation, a natural consequence of having their projects bundled. I have to see things from their perspective as well.

I wouldn't want to to see my game being sold for cents to a dollar, simply because the alternative would be to fizzle out into obscurity on a Steam Store flooded yearly by thousands of low-effort shovelware titles. An unfeasible process which will end eventually.

How about we turn the habit of buying game bundles into playing games in bundles? Now is a good time to start doing that. IGN has been going through a lot of restructuring lately. The layoffs and the closure of Humble Studios were not good signs for the company. It's sad to see this happening, but I’d say don’t panic or worry if Humble Bundle shuts down at some point, it’s a very real possibility for multiple reasons.

Another reason Humble Bundle might eventually be discontinued, and this is going to upset a lot of people, is due to exploiters. Some people wait to purchase the Choice bundle until they receive an automatic discount, allowing them to get eight already heavily discounted games for even less. As a result, game companies may decide that bundling their games is no longer the most viable option, especially as development costs continue to rise.

I started using Humble Bundle & Choice back in 2023, so I’m fairly new to the whole bundle scene. I wish I had started sooner when most veterans of bundles speak fondly of the "Good old days!"

Don't know for HB, but Fanatical business plan looks viable ? They bundle games that otherwise wouldn't sell, and their remaining keys go to the mystery bundles that are often their number 1 or not far most sold bundle with gambling attractiveness. It works so well that they always have +5 bundles at a time and some full weeks of bundles. And contrary to HB, they encourage to group or buy multiple copies and they never seem to run out of developers who want to bundle their games, so far the only dark cloud on the horizon for them would be the unreasonable extension of region-locks that would discourage to group or gift the extra ? I remember there was even someone from Fanatical who came once on SG to encourage us to buy multiple times to gift.

Of course Fanatical repeats the games plenty of times, but it's normal it's the business plan, repeat the games to the max, encourage to buy to the max, and then the rest to mystery... rinse and repeat ! :D And there is always something cool to discover, the quality never decreased to indiegala point.
Also, maybe another difference Fanatical has a very healthy store that works very well, and for sure they have a lot of customers for their store not just for their bundles. It's in my list of usual stores with Gamesplanet and Greenmangaming, because the 3 work very well... I'm as excited about the Fanatical platinum as HB monthly.