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Humble Choice - January 2025
January 2025's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games.
| Steam Page | Opencritic | Steam Recent/All | Operating Systems | Steam Deck | ProtonDB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Against the Storm | 92 | 92 / 95 | Win | ✅ Verified | 🎖️ Platinum |
| Jagged Alliance 3 | 82 | 85 / 89 | Win | 🟨 Playable | 🎖️ Platinum |
| Blasphemous 2 | 84 | 88 / 92 | Win | ✅ Verified | 🎖️ Platinum |
| Beneath Oresa | -- | 100 / 79 | Win | ✅ Verified | 🎖️ Platinum |
| Fort Solis | 62 | 66 / 70 | Win, Mac | ✅ Verified | 🟨 Gold |
| Boxes: Lost Fragments | 82 | 92 / 91 | Win | 🟨 Playable | 🟨 Gold |
| Dordogne | 77 | 70 / 94 | Win | 🟨 Playable | ⬜ Silver |
| The Pegasus Expedition | N/A | -- / 70 | Win | ❓ Unknown | ⬜ Silver |
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?
Against The Storm is worth it all on its own, imo. Great little bite-sized citybuilder. Can get a little repetitive, so if you don't like variation derived from ascendancy/difficulty-scaling mechanics then maybe not your cup of tea. It does a good job of introducing legitimately game-changing mechanics as you progress, though, like new buildings and production chains, so it was fresh enough for me.
I'm in a Steam library share with my husband and two of our friends.
During the Winter Sale, my husband bought Against the Storm, and one of my friends bought Beneath Oresa. Each one texted our group, excited to let everyone know that they'd added those games to our family share and that they were available to play.
I, consequently, don't have the heart to tell them about this deal (and hope they don't encounter it on their own), but everyone can thank them for being the unintentionally sacrificial purchases that made sure those two games specifically ended up in this bundle.
And yes, both games have been played enough that they're outside the refund window.
Better to be Bought And Experienced than to stack up in the Steam Pile of Unplayed Shame! :D
My friends and my husband have the amazing superpower of only buying games that they actually want to play. Our library share is dozens of their games mixed with my thousands. I wish I had even a tenth of their restraint.
Also, my buying habits were already pretty bad, but now that I’m buying for four instead of one…
I tried Against the Storm recently for about an hour and a half to two hours. Not sure I'll go back to it. My friends love it, but I've never been very big into RTS or city builders so I'm not sure why I thought I'd click with this. After that whole time I never felt like I knew what I was supposed to be doing, or what I should be doing optimally, and the amount of options kind of overwhelmed me.
Against the Storm is a city builder specifically designed to make sure there's no optimality. With different population needs in every map, and different buildings available to meet those needs, the goal is always to make the best of the situation. It's actually why I keep coming back to it. Making it work is a puzzle every time, rather than having one route to victory you just execute over and over again.
I can't speak to Oresa, but Against the Storm is totally worth full price. I wouldn't feel bad about it myself, but then I got it in early access for about the same price as this bundle.