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Humble Choice - July 2024
July 2024's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games.
| Steam Page | Opencritic | Steam Recent/All | Operating Systems | Steam Deck | ProtonDB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Plague Tale: Requiem | 83 | 86/90 | Win | ✅ Verified | 🟨 Gold |
| Ghostrunner 2 | 79 | 81/83 | Win | ✅ Verified | 🟨 Gold |
| Starship Troopers: Terran Command | 74 | 88/88 | Win | 🟨 Playable | 🎖️ Platinum |
| Sticky Business | 78 | 95/97 | Win, Mac | ✅ Verified | 🎖️ Platinum |
| Zoeti | 72 | 80 | Win | ✅ Verified | 🕙 Awaiting Reports |
| Figment 2: Creed Valley | 72 | 100/94 | Win | ❓ Unknown | 🎖️ Platinum |
| Heretic's Fork | N/A | 71/86 | Win | 🟨 Playable | 🎖️ Platinum |
| HYPERVIOLENT (Early Access) | N/A | 78 | Win | 🟨 Playable | 🕙 Awaiting Reports |
Does anyone have experience with any of the games and, if so, would you recommend them? Is there anything in here that you're particularly excited to play?
Very excited about Plague Tale. I recently played the first game and loved the approach to storytelling. It's not high art or life changing, but it's a fun little light-horror story with compelling characters and great production quality. The gameplay is definitely repetitive, but the stealth mechanics are good-enough to make the story enjoyable.
Rat pope!
I had a lot of fun watching a streamer I like play through the first Plague Tale. I never got around to picking up the second one because 2023 was packed with good game releases and in 2024 there are cheaper, more indie games that appeal to me just as much. Because of the nature of the gameplay, which you mentioned, I might end up just watching someone play it in the long run. But the series definitely has appeal and I'm sure it will be enjoyable for a lot of people.
Subscribers, now that this lineup has been released, you are finally free to make any big purchases you want in the Steam sale!
Also, some meta news: this Choice was correctly leaked. It's the first one that's been accurately leaked since Humble shut down previous leaks back in April, so leakers must have found a new source of info.
Sticky Business is a game about designing and selling sticker packs.
There isn't much story that I could see - you click the "Design" button, drag and drop elements onto the sticker sheet. Click the print button. Click the box and put the right stickers in to fulfill the order. Click the mailbox to send.
The sticker editor has a lot of options and would be very entertaining for an artsy person of a certain age. I didn't refund it (got it in a bundle) but I'm definitely not the target audience. I would say the target audience is maybe 7-12 year olds.
The game is very LGBTQ positive which is awesome. My queer kid would have loved it at a certain stage of life, probably too old for it now.
Well, I could careless about any of these games so I guess they made the choice easy for me this month!
It's uncanny how many of these games I've heard of and thought "these would be nice to play for a while" but didn't think it was worth spending real money on. I've played the first Plague Tale game and while I was impressed at the art direction and there was nothing wrong or objectionable about any aspect about it, it was a game that left me thinking "why am I playing this?" because there was nothing that really grabbed me other than the really polished visuals.
I haven't heard of Figment 2 or it's predecessor, but it looks really pretty and reasonably engaging, so I'll definately be downloading it to play... eventually.
Two more games for the 'cards' category, and one more for the 'early access'. Though Hyperviolent is on my wishlist.
My biggest draw is Plague Tale: Requiem. I liked that first game. I've had ample opportunity to check out Requiem, but maybe owning it on Steam will count for something.
Ghostrunner 2 is something I'd probably like if it weren't a first-person splatformer. I really struggled with the first game. I bailed after learning it only saved between levels and it took me more than hour to get through the first level. I'm not about to lose that kind of progress because the dog needs to go out.
Heretic's Fork is good tongue-in-cheek fun, well balanced, requires more interaction than a idle game, less than the usual tower defense game, and just had a big update with new content. Between the full game and the demos, I've probably got 20-30 hours into it.