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    1. The possibly endangered games of the Humble App

      Background: While playing games for the Backlog Burner, I was surprised to learn that the Humble App (which is a "free" perk of having a Humble Choice subscription) has a few games that are...

      Background:

      While playing games for the Backlog Burner, I was surprised to learn that the Humble App (which is a "free" perk of having a Humble Choice subscription) has a few games that are actually exclusive to it.

      Part of the reason I chose to play games from the Humble App is that I don't expect it'll be around much longer. It isn't getting updates or new games added to it. Also, Humble Games, the publishing arm of Humble which released many of the games available through the app, was abruptly dissolved in 2024.

      With this in mind, I went through the entire current library for the Humble App and tried to identify games that I could not find available for purchase/download elsewhere.

      Below is a list of games that I consider to be "endangered" because they might become unplayable/lost media if (i.e. when) the Humble App does shut down or stop working.

      If you've got the Humble App, it might be worth playing some of these sooner rather than later.

      If you've got game preservation sensibilities, it might make sense to download and archive these for posterity.


      Game List:

      Here are the games that are, as best as I can tell, Humble App exclusives and in danger of being lost permanently.

      For each title below, I tried to find a decent link that gave information about the game. Many of these simply don't have a lot of online presence.

      Some of them have Steam pages linked, but in those cases, they're just placeholders and you cannot actually buy the game.

      Feel free to check my work and let me know if I missed any, or if some of these games are actually officially obtainable outside Humble and I didn't find them.

      Also let me know if I whiffed any of the links or if you find better ones for any of the games.

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