Bundle for Ukraine $10 Bundle Gets You $6500 Worth Of Games/Music/Books, Helps Ukraine

[Unofficial Who]

As per @TehStu's post elsewhere,

 

 

 

https://kotaku.com/ukraine-video-games-charity-bundle-indie-russia-war-inv-1848619901

 

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Necrosoft Games have put together a bundle of 991 things on itch.io that is available now for a minimum of just $10 .

The Bundle For Ukraine’s introduction on the site says:

The people of Ukraine are under attack. As game developers we want to create new worlds, not to destroy the one we have. That’s why we’ve banded together to present this charity bundle to help Ukrainians survive this ordeal and thrive after the war ends. This cause has resonated with creators around the globe, to the extent that our bundle contains almost 1,000 games, tabletop RPGs, books, etc.

Over 700 creators have come together to donate their works and all proceeds from this bundle will go to the following charities:

- International Medical Corps provides medical assistance in the region. They have very low fundraising overhead (1% of income), with 89% of donations going to medical aid and 10% to administration.

- Voices of Children, a Ukrainian organization that helps children cope with the horrors of war, PTSD, readjusting to school, and getting back to being kids. They have also been doing a lot of grassroots impromptu work during the war, such as helping set up shelters. Our hope is that this war will be over soon, and they can begin the work of healing these kids’ hearts.

 

Link here https://itch.io/b/1316/bundle-for-ukraine

[bradigor]

Going to get this later, have plenty of them from other Itch bundles but some absolute bangers I don't have on Itch yet. 

[bradigor]

I will recommended more later but three to get you going.

 

Cloud Gardens 

Lucifer Within Us 

Pushamo 

 

[PikaStu]

Apparently Schildmaid MX is included! 

[Girth Certificate]

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Visigoths Vs Mall Goths

 

 

[bradigor]

Ok a short list of games I know about / have played 

 

A mix of cracking games, curiosities and some other well known. I have likely missed some as i have only been through 17/34 pages

 

Bold = Some of my absolute favourites

 

Pixross (Picross)

Pushamo (Tetris meets Lumines meets Denki Blocks... Stunning game)

Gunhouse (Match 3 Tower Defence with guns)

Quible Sphere (Ball rolling)

Evader (Pacifist mode in Geo Wars inspired)

Dawn of a Soul (Maths based puzzler)

Portal Dogs (Puzzle Platformer)

Curious Expedition (19th century expedition style game)

Combo Postage (Action Puzzler)

Headspun (FGMV type thing)

IGEO (I suppose it is a bit Denki Blocks... sort of)

Basket Belle (I am not sure I can explain this one so just try it)

Ganbare! (Turn Based tactics... in football)

Alt-Frequencies (This game needs more love, a mystery that uses radio frequencies and time loops)

Inbento (Place sushi in a box so it looks nice)

Magnibox (A puzzle game that feels a bit like March of the Minis, but without the minis)

Hiding Spot (A great concept this. Little 3D dioramas where you need to find a spot and hide)

Safecracking Simulator (Has no right being as fun as it is)

Bard harder (Not played this yet, but been on my list for a little while. a VN that just looks interesting in the same way Coffee Talk does)

A Good Snowman is Hard to Build (Been aropund a while now, worth playing)

Golf Peaks (Golf based, puzzle game.. short and interesting)

Mewnbased (Not played thisd but sold on the title)

Death and Taxes (Imagine Papers Please meets Reigns but with the Grim Reaper in an office)

Quadrilateral Cowboy (Forgot this existed a 3d Hacking gamew with an interesting narrative from what I can remember)

Arcade Spirits (Know little going in, just play it)

Lucifer Within Us (A mystery game with a ton of twist and puzzle solving)

Cloud Gardens (Take back the world with nature and make awesome looklng dioramas)

SkateBIRD (Look, I know may dopn't like it and even I got fed up, but if you've not played it, it is worth 15 minutes for the hell of it)

Dumpy and Bumpy (Sort of Puzznic meets Chu Chu Rocket.. hard to explain but enjoyed it)

TENNES (As minimalist as Pong but with a huge amount of depth. Bloody fantastic)

Backbone ~(Point and Click noir with animals)

A Morticians Tale (Very short narratove about working in a funeral home, but the story left an effect on me)

 

Some that you should know and not need telling about:

Celeste

A Short Hike

Wandersong

Kingdom Two Crowns

Cross-Code

 

 

[drkbfhmmr]

There's a useful site here that lets you sort the games from the bundle (and the games from the previous itch bundles) by popularity, steam rating etc. https://randombundlegame.com/

 

Can't wait to get home and try out Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered

 

[Siri]

ZeroRanger is fantastic from what I've seen of it, and Baba is You is great if you like feeling very stupid at puzzle games.

The Bundle also comes with the current soundtrack to Unbeatable, which is a paid part of the free sample version of the game, and probably one of the best demos I played during Steam's Next Fest last year.

[ImmaculateClump]

1 hour ago, Siri said:

ZeroRanger is fantastic from what I've seen of it

 

Yeah, play the "white vanilla" mode. It's godly!

[moosegrinder]

3 hours ago, Girth Certificate said:

 

 

 

There's a gag in Phineas and Ferb where Dr Doofenshmirtz asks his daughter about her Visigoth friends
 

(Disney are all over the copyright shit so it almost gets cut off because the episode is in pieces). It's one of my favourite things from the show.

[Cyhwuhx]

Bundle obtained.

[Ketchup]

For the minimum price of £7 there is absolutely no reason not to get this. Even if just 1 game interests you it's worth it for Ukraine support alone and i can guarantee there is going to be more than 1 game that will interest you here. More people need to jump on this.

[CheekyLee]

All in for this game alone.

[PikaStu]

To be fair I’m quite enjoying the AVGN game…

[wev]

Did Itch ever sort a client out? I bought that BLM bundle they did and can't remember what was in it!

 

I'll still pick this up if they haven't though

[drkbfhmmr]

Yup, the client is here: https://itch.io/app

[moosegrinder]

You used to have to download the game to your pc before the client would add it to the client library. Have they sorted that out yet?

[drkbfhmmr]

Works like this for me: I click "download" for a particular game from the bundle page and it's instantly added to my library - no need to actually download the game.

[bradigor]

Basically each item in this bundle is costing you 0.0015384615384615p

[Ry]

I don't do PC gaming but got a reservation for the deck. How do I play these? Do I go on Steam and they are there or something? 

[Rex Grossman]

Is anything Mac compatible?

[Quest]

You can filter the list by platform. 290 games have a MacOS version.

[Vorgot]

9 hours ago, Rex Grossman said:

Is anything Mac compatible?

Lots of good stuff is Mac compatible, no reason not to jump in

[Vorgot]

12 hours ago, drkbfhmmr said:

Works like this for me: I click "download" for a particular game from the bundle page and it's instantly added to my library - no need to actually download the game.

Same for me which makes it a lot easier to add stuff to the client

[earlymodernsteve]

12 hours ago, Ry said:

I don't do PC gaming but got a reservation for the deck. How do I play these? Do I go on Steam and they are there or something? 

Nope. These aren't Steam codes. PC is more complicated as there are different platforms. Once installed you can add the executable to Steam and launch it from there but you'll need to check out a how to for the Deck to see how that works. There are a fair few native Linux builds in the bundle so they *might* be easier to just run outside of Steam.

[memories]

Is it all PC stuff in this bundle of are there any console games?

[wev]

Oioi its got Skatebird in it, been wanting that

[Siri]

7 minutes ago, memories said:

Is it all PC stuff in this bundle of are there any console games?

No console games, unless you want to count the 19 games you might be able to load up in a web browser. There's 23 Android games and 317 Tabletop game rulebooks in the bundle as well, for full disclosure on the 1000-odd things featured.

[Alan Stock]

Thank you @bradigor for the suggestions. Its completely overwhelming to suddenly have so many games and no idea where to start! 

 

I found a few articles with some other recommendations, and it should be noted there's even stuff like tabletop RPGs and e-books here, its an insane collection.

https://kotaku.com/itch-bundle-for-ukraine-pc-gaming-russia-superhot-baba-1848640480

 

https://www.dicebreaker.com/categories/roleplaying-game/news/charity-bundle-for-ukraine-itch-trpgs

 

https://www.pocketgamer.com/itch-io-bundle/bundle-for-ukraine-that-you-can-play-portably/

 

https://www.thegamer.com/awesome-items-in-the-itchio-bundle-for-ukraine/

 

The cause is great of course and they're nearly up to 5 million dollars raised and over 300,000 buyers which is awesome, Itch.io's last big fundraiser got over 8 million dollars so hopefully they'll continue to rake it in. The deal is currently only listed as happening for the next 5 days (today is Sunday the 14th) so get in there if you haven't already!

[fragglerock]

On 08/03/2022 at 22:08, Rex Grossman said:

Is anything Mac compatible?

https://randombundlegame.com/?bundles=ukraine&platforms=macOS