Basically the question for me is if Timeshift would be worth a euro.
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50% discount and very very interesting: The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker:
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Inspired by Her Story I figure? Anyway, decided to grab it. 
I’m reluctant only because the reviews say you need to guess the parser a lot… and you need to read hints to figure out the exact phrasing the game expects.
Then again, it’s 5 bucks! 
Ok, grabbed it.
Sounds like your game 
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why do you say so? 
It’s the opposite … I tell you in advance what phrasing I expect… exactly so you don’t have to guess it.
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Sounds like another one of those murder simulators 
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No, it’s a chop-the-wood simulator!
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ahah! Never seen before! Thanks!
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Life is Strange on GOG for €4. It’s a teen angst classic.
https://www.gog.com/game/life_is_strange_complete_season
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It’s discounted again. Great game title btw. 
A classic? Well I wouldn’t know, but nice to see it finally somewhere where I can try it.
They have also just released Life is Strange: Before the Storm (Deluxe Edition), heavily discounted. Seems to be a shorter prequel to Life of Strange.
I wonder if Life is Strange 2 follows soon as it has been completed half a year ago.
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There’s Legend of Hand in this bundle which is inspired by old adventure games. Other than that, Night in the Woods and Oxenfree might be interesting and adventure genre related but the graphics seem to suggest a style I don’t like. Anything else good in there? I got tired just by browsing the list. It’s full of shovelware.
There’s a couple in there I recognize besides those you highlighted:
- reky a brand new puzzle game
- A Short Hike a bit of a walking sim
- Overland post-apocalyptic survival strategy
- Wheels of Aurelia top-down, narrative, racing game
- Astrologaster excellent, visual novel style narrative game
- Signs of the Sojourner narrative, collectible card game
- Pendula Swing: The Complete Journey boringly peaceful RPG with a nice soundtrack
Scrolling through the list there might be another handful that seemed like they might warrant a closer look, and who knows, maybe also something that deserves a closer look but only at a second glance.
The ones I actually played from that list are A Short Hike (short indeed, but fun), Wheels of Aurelia (okay-ish, but the racing isn’t that great and I got a bad ending on my first and only playthrough), Astrologaster (absolutely fantastic, despite me getting a non-perfect ending) and Pendula Swing (lacks in the story department, wouldn’t really recommend.)
The others I only know from hearsay, but to me they seem genuinely good entries in their respective genre. I’d mostly be interested in Signs of the Sojourner. Overland looks great, and the gameplay seems to be something I’d enjoy too, but I’m more into fantasy than post-apocalyptic settings. reky as an abstract puzzle game is not my usual fare, but I heard plenty of praise for it.
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Oxenfree is #coolbeans. For me it’s the best game of 2016, the best game Telltale never made, and definitely a contender for best game of the decade.
Incidentally, Oxenfree, TWP and Life is Strange are all part of the same paranormal events in the American Pacific Northwest subgenre. Not sure why, but it’s apparently a thing.
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As apparently new games were added to the Racial Justice bundle, I once more went through the list and uncovered
- Old Man’s Journey Narrative puzzle game
- The Novelist Exploration
- Milkmaid of the Milky Way Point & Click
- Eselmir and the five magical gifts Point & Click
- Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy! Point & Click
- A Normal Lost Phone and Another Lost Phone: Laura’s Story Exploration
- Hidden Folks Hidden object game
- The Floor is Jelly Puzzle platformer
Honorable mention:
This time though I played none of those, and only Old Man’s Journey is on my whishlist, with low priority.
That aside, did anyone actually get the bundle? Does it flood the library with all the games?
Also, while it’s for a good cause and obviously the developers are happy to give their creations away for free or next to nothing, I do not really feel comfortable getting stuff with a price tag of $8000 for as little as $5. Especially when I will ignore 99.5% of what’s included.
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No, it has a page from which you can activate them.
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Well, if you’d give even $1 or a dime per game, it would also be too expensive. With this overflood of games, you can rest assured you indeed won’t even look at most of the things in there, so it would be no different than scrolling by them in the browser instead of in your library.
I always wanted that guide to classic adventure games, so I am getting that for almost 50% off now and will consider all the rest as copied games you had on the C64 back when. Free, but no time to even go through them.
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