It's time for me to admit it... Humble Games kinda slap?

Agreed on Ikenfell. It got way cheesy towards the end but I really enjoyed it, particularly the magic system. I also liked One Step from Eden a lot, but I am terrible at it. 😅

Personally, I don't give much thought to who's publishing a game, for the most part; if it's a publisher that's consistently doing really sleazy things, I'll wait longer for a bigger discount, because I want to give them as little money as possible, even if sales are on their own terms. That said, I think focusing on who published a game is misplacing attention, because it's the developers who do the actual work; publishers just back them financially, and sometimes ruin the original vision with corporate meddling, etc. A publisher could theoretically put out a ton of games both good and bad, and that wouldn't have much of anything to do with them if they're developed by different studios. Hades is a good example; I haven't played it, but I have no doubt it's an excellent game, not because of IGN or Humble or any of that, but because it was developed by SuperGiant, and everything of theirs I've played has been an unconventional masterwork of game design, not to mention that I'm pretty sure their earlier games were published by WB. If you want to get even deeper into it, we can talk about individuals that worked on a game, and Legend of Mana for the Playstation is a great example of that; it's a Mana/Seiken Densetsu game, but the artstyle and general design has a lot more in common with SaGa Frontier than anything in its own series, and when you check the credits, sure enough: same artist as SaGa Frontier, and Akitoshi Kawazu hiding in the bushes.

If we're talking about Humble as a storefront, though, I think there's a lot of good to be said for it. Whether or not they're any good, the monthly package is a pretty good deal in terms of price, and they're one of the very few digital storefront that offers DRM-free options, even if only on certain titles. A lot of the time, if what you're buying is on multiple platforms, you'll get all of those copies, which is also a pretty good deal; if you and a friend want to get into, say, The Norwood Suite, you can pay $10 and both of you can play, one on Steam and the other on whatever, 100% legally. If, for whatever reason, you really like Origin, or UPlay or whatever, you can get games for that, and even stuff for the Switch; lots of variety. The Humble Trove is cool, too; I checked that out when they were offering it free for a limited time, and while you've got a lot to sift through, I found some interesting games I otherwise wouldn't have given a second glance. They also donate to charity, which is usually a good thing, too. It might not be my favorite storefront, but it does a lot of neat things that no others do, at least not that I'm aware of.

I really don't care which game's they've been involved in publishing. Their bundles and sales are completely unrelated. Also the developers make those games, not Humble Bundle.

Ikenfell has crazy good music (so does cyber shadow, but my aging body and mind just cant keep up with the demands of that game). humble does publish some good stuff, and even if the occupation wasn't executed to its potential, it was worth them investing in the idea because nobody else is really doing that premise in their games. i have definitely steered clear of things on the humble store since they secretly guinea pigged some of their customers into not being allowed to donate what they want to charity, and their roll back didn't really go far enough imo.
i think they have a future as a publisher tho

The biggest, most important title they released is easily Slay the Spire though. For some reason Steam classifies it as self-released, but Wikipedia and Humble Games' main page says it's theirs. Fantastic game, I'm a fanboy. I did play some of their other titles (Carto, Popup Dungeon, Aegis Defenders, Wizard of Legend) but they were meh. Gotta grab Void Bastards though, it was nice from the 1hr I spent on it on gamepass. Also Prodeus and Fae Tactics look nice. Ikenfell too, but not for me - I hate JRPGs :<

Yeah, i noticed. Not all of them interests me, but a couple of them are in my radar. It's nice to see them noticing a lot of great games to publish.

Wildfire's pretty great too, I recommend not sleeping on that one.

Why does IGN receive so much hate guys ?

Carto was really great, I highly recommend it.
A Hat In Time? I liked it, but it was over-rated. Plus buying DLC to "complete" the game? No thanks.
Them's Fightin Herds? Released too early, haven't touched it since, but it was super-punishing.
Haven't played any other games. Yet. The Wild at Heart, Wilffire, Ikenfell, and Fae Tactics are in my queue though.

As others have said though, don't care about Humble as a publisher. As long as they do good for their devs, they might be ok.

Loved Void Bastards. Looking forward to playing Prodeus,Crying Suns,Wildfire. Somewhat curious about Project Wingman. As far as their other games that aren't up my alley go,they still look pretty polished and varied so can't say I think their curation is bad. There are tons of worse publishers out there,both in terms of business practices and their catalogue.

Project Wingman is well known in it's niche and I wouldn't call it original. Basically a carbon copy of Ace Combat series which was kinda copied earlier too - anyone remember Tom Clancy's HAWX games? It doesn't mean that it isn't good. Just my two cents about this particular title.

There are problems with the support so that they solved a card blocking error on their part because the bank detected it as fradulent and canceled the purchase, since then they have not let me buy bundles, I spent about 6 months claiming in the support, it basically works as The teleoperators, someone answers you and passes you to another person and wait for another email, then this tells you that it is already solved and it is not real, on top of that they played the monthly classic and they put it normal, at the end I passed the support and believed me A new account, using PayPal and linked to the bank account, the card still does not work on said website, sad to see how the support is regrettable
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The monthly ones lately put early access, or games that have dlc, for you to spend, it really is not a good bundle, I usually discard these games, as for the normal bundles, it shows that there is an average cheating.

Not to mention putting games from different platforms within the same bundle before giving you the option to choose the platform

Another problem is if you want to give away something from the normal store, it does not let you buy more than one copy, it is something stupid that is not a bundle, you are not going to traffic with it.

As for monthly promotions, one feels cheated, you are a regular customer paying 12 usd and suddenly they put bundles at 6 usd several months to new users, or 1 year at a miserable cost, it should cost the same to everyone 12 usd as before, and if they have any promotion that goes into the whole world.

I personally like One Step From Eden due to my love toward Mega man Battle network series to the point I purchase it on release and finish it later. It's Fast paced version of the mentioned game and I totally enjoy it.

When I see it on the Choices, I kinda predict it and well, I still purchase those choices and gifted the key for my best friend.