Just buy the Humble Bundle V

Oh my goodness for real just pick this one up. I can say that with confidence having, like a damn fool, already bought all the frigging games in this bundle. It’s amazing. I’ll give you a rundown, though.

LIMBO: Neat, slightly full of itself platformer/puzzle game with a very striking visual style. It’s good, it’s quick, you’ll die a bunch to cheap stuff for a shock but it’s cool.

Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP: Okay I lied I haven’t bought all of them, but I’ve heard good things about this!

Amnesia: The Dark Descent: It’s really good! It’s not quite as pants-crappingly scary as the internet has decided it must have been, but it’s definitely one of the top horror games. Played in the dark with headphones it can get pretty close to as scary as people joke about it being!

Psychonauts: Great, charming platformer about a boy in a summer camp for psychics made by Double Fine of Having Tim Schafer fame. It’s more than worth a look, even if the collectibles were rubbish.

Bastion: I’ve written about this! It’s the best fucking game! Seriously just pay your $8 for this, it’s beautiful and moving and has a neat narrative conceit and fun gameplay and man maybe I should replay it. Remember to get this, you need to pay more than the average!

Lone Survivor: Aaaagh I’m a liar! But! I did play the demo. Did a surprisingly good job of wringing horror out of pixels, so check it out! Remember to get this, you need to pay more than the average!

Braid: Not half as clever as it wishes it was, it’s still pretty frigging clever. A puzzle game masquerading as a platformer, it’s all about manipulating time in different manners to progress. Super fun, really worth a playthrough. Reasonably neat meta-story thing too, but mostly just play the puzzles and leave it be. Remember to get this, you need to pay more than the average!

Super Meat Boy: The best platformer the world has ever seen. Tough but fair but SO TOUGH. Really fun times. Remember to get this, you need to pay more than the average!

There you go! Pick it up, you cannot possibly be disappointed by these games.

Steam Sale Day 8: I Found a New Title!

You know the drill by now, don’t you?

Good

-Mass Effect 2: Incredibly, really good. Well done, interesting to play, better than the first. Decent writing, too. Better if you’re a Jerk Shepard, though. Cheap as hell now, so if you’ve not picked it up, do!

-Fallout 3 GOTY: Honestly, I’m thinking of getting this and I own the 360 version. I just never got any of the DLC and $10 for the lot actually seems like a decent price. If you’ve never played Fallout 3, then this is a definite buy.

-Amnesia: Yeah, grab it. For a fiver it’s totally worth giving a go, it’s an interesting approach to horror in a game environment and it’s pretty fun with the lights off/headphones on etc.

Maybe, Baby

-Empire + Napoleon Total War: These look like my sort of thing, but they always come with this nagging feeling of not mattering. Like the systems underpinning everything are just broken enough that there’s no point actually giving it a good go because screw it it’s all random.

-Splinter Cell Conviction: Does a lot that’s been done better in other games, but it’s kind of fun too.

-Mafia 2: Lots of people say it’s great and anyone complaining of major flaws is being a ninny. I think they’re lying, but you may be more credulous.

-Worms Reloaded: Worms was always a pretty fun game. Maybe this is something you could pick up? Certainly not for more than $5, so now’s the time to do it.

-Dirt 3: I have no idea, whatever. Racing games, am I right ladies?

-Divinity 2: Some people recommend it, but again I bought The Witcher 2 so what do I care?

-Red Faction Armageddon: I guess the nice bit is the magnet gun being a laugh, the bad bit is that it’s a corridor shooter again. If you want a corridor shooter with inventive weapons, you could do worse.

NO

-Last Remnant: Holy shit, it’s like Final Fantasy with fetal alcohol syndrome. There are some beautifully done prose stories in it, but I’d rather pay $10 to have those sans game.

Universe Sandbox

-Universe Sandbox: You know if you want this.