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Humble Choice - July 2025
July 2025's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games.
| Steam Page | Opencritic | Steam Recent/All | Operating Systems | Steam Deck | ProtonDB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader | 78 | 87 / 85 | Win, Mac | ✅ Verified | 🎖️ Platinum |
| Cat Quest III | 82 | 96 / 94 | Win | ✅ Verified | 🎖️ Platinum |
| Death's Door | 88 | 90 / 93 | Win | ✅ Verified | 🎖️ Platinum |
| DAEMON X MACHINA | 70 | 63 / 86 | Win | 🟨 Playable | 🎖️ Platinum |
| Wizard With a Gun | 76 | 79 / 80 | Win | ✅ Verified | 🟨 Gold |
| Neo Cab | 75 | -- / 81 | Win, Mac | 🟨 Playable | 🟨 Gold |
| Everafter Falls | -- | -- / 86 | Win, Mac, Linux | ✅ Verified | ✅ Native |
| Blanc | 68 | -- / 75 | Win | ✅ Verified | 🟨 Gold |
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?
As a massive mecha fan, I'll note that Daemon x Machina is middling at best. Core gameplay isn't terrible, but not anything to write home about.
The story is pretty terribly written and the RNG based equipment drop system just plain sucks, making you grind and grind to get minor improvements in gear to grind and grind further as the second half of the game is an utter slog of high HP enemies. It's the "We have Armored Core at home" game.
I strongly suggest you pass on it.
Also worth noting that as of today, July 1st, the Humble Choice price increased to $14.99 per month, up from $11.99.
I mistakenly, in hindsight, purchased a 12 month humble bundle plan during December. I've paused almost every month since then. Each month has had either a lacklustre offering or the only games I'd make time to play I've already played elsewhere.
It's interesting to me how different experiences can be.
I've been a Humble Choice subscriber for a number of years, and in December I decided to give it "one last year" because I had felt like it just wasn't really worth it. Then this year has turned me around and I've been very happy with the games I've received. through the bundles. I've played more games from these bundles than any other year, and we're only halfway through, and I'll probably play more.
Some of these were already wishlisted for me (Tales & Tactics, Blasphemous 2) and some were just delightful surprises (Dredge, Nomad Survival, Beneath Oresa, Against the Storm). The rest were all generally worth the price of admission, to me, and I think there are several more that I'm looking forward to - Amnesia: The Bunker, Shadow Gambit, Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, Sir Whoopass, Wild Hearts.
And this month, I'm probably going to immediately install Blanc and Death's Door almost immediately just based on their art, and I think that Neo Cab and Cat Quest 3 will probably get installed by one of my kids.
I'm not in disagreement, nor am I trying to convince you to give these a go or anything. It's just interesting to me that we can have such different experiences with the game choices and the selection. For you, the game choices aren't really working, and for me they're making me reconsider this being my last year of Humble Choice.
I did redeem three months but skipped five:
But last year I purchased two months in a row before subscribing:
As for May 2025 (The Thaumaturge) and June 2025 (Dungeons of Hinterberg):
I was really considering Rogue Trader recently, based on things I've seen and read about it. Looks like this is a pretty opportunity for me, then!
Neo Cab is an intriguing game. I would describe it as a sort of visual novel cloud punk.... only that you do not really drive and most of the story unfold during the different conversations you have with your customers.
Not really long (5 hours maybe...?) and absolutely not re-playable because of the twists of the story... and that is quite sad because you won't be able to talk to everyone just in one run.
Anyway... it's 2 euros in steam right now. At that price I absolutely recommend it. Inside the full batch of the humble bundle... I dunno.