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The Humble Heroines Bundle is an absolutely fantastic deal, with some great compatibility across Steam Deck and Linux Desktop with Proton. Here's what to expect from it. As I usually do, I'll go over each title individually and list the rating for Steam Deck, along with ProtonDB rating for Desktop users to save you some clicking around.

Here's what's included:

Control Ultimate Edition

  • steam deck verified Steam Deck Verified
  • ProtonDB Platinum

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

  • steam deck verified Steam Deck Verified
  • ProtonDB Platinum

Praey for the Gods

  • steam deck verified Steam Deck Verified
  • ProtonDB Gold

Batora: Lost Haven

  • steam deck verified Steam Deck Verified
  • ProtonDB Platinum

Syberia: The World Before

  • steam deck verified Steam Deck Playable
  • ProtonDB Platinum

Sable

  • steam deck verified Steam Deck Verified
  • ProtonDB Gold

Dreamscaper

  • steam deck verified Steam Deck Verified
  • ProtonDB Gold

Call of the Sea

  • steam deck verified Steam Deck Verified
  • ProtonDB Platinum

See the full bundle here.

If I didn't already own Control and Hellblade, I would absolutely buy this bundle. What a awesome deal.

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scaine Mar 10, 2023
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Worth it, hugely, for the first two games alone. Control is superb and Hellblade's atmosphere is incredible. Praey looks great (a Shadow of the Collosus tribute) and both Batora and Dreamscaper have a Grim Dawn vibe, but single player. I've no interest in Syberia (point'n'click), but I've been meaning to pick up Sable for months now. Call of the Sea looks like a nice wee bonus - a first-person puzzler.

Might have to pick this up, even though I already own the two main stars.
Vasya Sovari Mar 10, 2023
Already have most of these games.
If you don't, buy this bundle. They are wonderful
PixelDrop Mar 10, 2023
Call of the Sea = free on EPIC right now
Control = Has been free on EPIC twice
Hellblade = Has been part of MANY bundles in the past.

Then I have 2 others from other rarer bundles.

If you have been collecting EPIC games, it's an okay-ish bundle not great but okay.
If you have been collecting EPIC + Most all good value bundles for a while then you're almost paying sale prices for the stuff your missing. Which the issue with paying near sale prices on bundled games is you can not return them if you don't like them, so unless you know you're going to like them you're better off just paying the couple extra dollars for return protection. Actually taking the time to returning 1 or 2 games out of 4 during a big normal sale can literally save you more money than buying a bundle where you're only save a few dollars per game.
peta77 Mar 10, 2023
Quoting: PixelDropCall of the Sea = free on EPIC right now
Control = Has been free on EPIC twice
Hellblade = Has been part of MANY bundles in the past.

Then I have 2 others from other rarer bundles.

If you have been collecting EPIC games, it's an okay-ish bundle not great but okay.
If you have been collecting EPIC + Most all good value bundles for a while then you're almost paying sale prices for the stuff your missing. Which the issue with paying near sale prices on bundled games is you can not return them if you don't like them, so unless you know you're going to like them you're better off just paying the couple extra dollars for return protection. Actually taking the time to returning 1 or 2 games out of 4 during a big normal sale can literally save you more money than buying a bundle where you're only save a few dollars per game.

Or you want the games, pay "sales prices" for them and support some charity organizations with a bundle!

Because that's what these are about. If you're just looking for the cheapest prices, you're not the targeted audience.
Liam Dawe Mar 10, 2023
Quoting: peta77
Quoting: PixelDropCall of the Sea = free on EPIC right now
Control = Has been free on EPIC twice
Hellblade = Has been part of MANY bundles in the past.

Then I have 2 others from other rarer bundles.

If you have been collecting EPIC games, it's an okay-ish bundle not great but okay.
If you have been collecting EPIC + Most all good value bundles for a while then you're almost paying sale prices for the stuff your missing. Which the issue with paying near sale prices on bundled games is you can not return them if you don't like them, so unless you know you're going to like them you're better off just paying the couple extra dollars for return protection. Actually taking the time to returning 1 or 2 games out of 4 during a big normal sale can literally save you more money than buying a bundle where you're only save a few dollars per game.

Or you want the games, pay "sales prices" for them and support some charity organizations with a bundle!

Because that's what these are about. If you're just looking for the cheapest prices, you're not the targeted audience.
That and grabbing free games on Epic, does absolutely nothing to support Linux and Steam Deck gaming. Additionally, there's no doubt many like me not really paying much attention at all to free games from Epic. While the Heroic Launcher is great, much prefer to stick with Steam and get bundles like this.
slaapliedje Mar 10, 2023
Quoting: scaineWorth it, hugely, for the first two games alone. Control is superb and Hellblade's atmosphere is incredible. Praey looks great (a Shadow of the Collosus tribute) and both Batora and Dreamscaper have a Grim Dawn vibe, but single player. I've no interest in Syberia (point'n'click), but I've been meaning to pick up Sable for months now. Call of the Sea looks like a nice wee bonus - a first-person puzzler.

Might have to pick this up, even though I already own the two main stars.
Played a bit of Hellblade in VR... talk about creepy!!
stormtux Mar 10, 2023
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Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: peta77
Quoting: PixelDropCall of the Sea = free on EPIC right now
Control = Has been free on EPIC twice
Hellblade = Has been part of MANY bundles in the past.

Then I have 2 others from other rarer bundles.

If you have been collecting EPIC games, it's an okay-ish bundle not great but okay.
If you have been collecting EPIC + Most all good value bundles for a while then you're almost paying sale prices for the stuff your missing. Which the issue with paying near sale prices on bundled games is you can not return them if you don't like them, so unless you know you're going to like them you're better off just paying the couple extra dollars for return protection. Actually taking the time to returning 1 or 2 games out of 4 during a big normal sale can literally save you more money than buying a bundle where you're only save a few dollars per game.

Or you want the games, pay "sales prices" for them and support some charity organizations with a bundle!

Because that's what these are about. If you're just looking for the cheapest prices, you're not the targeted audience.
That and grabbing free games on Epic, does absolutely nothing to support Linux and Steam Deck gaming. Additionally, there's no doubt many like me not really paying much attention at all to free games from Epic. While the Heroic Launcher is great, much prefer to stick with Steam and get bundles like this.
I have some questions about how this stores work:
How buying bundles on stores like HumbleBundle or Fanatical is supporting Linux?
- installing and playing a game in steam from Linux will raise the sales statistics the developers/publishers have access to? Are we sure "activated games" are handled the same way as "bought games"?
- will Valve get a percent of the cost of the keys in the bundle? You know, bandwidth, infrastructure etc.
peta77 Mar 10, 2023
Quoting: stormtux
Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: peta77
Quoting: PixelDropCall of the Sea = free on EPIC right now
Control = Has been free on EPIC twice
Hellblade = Has been part of MANY bundles in the past.

Then I have 2 others from other rarer bundles.

If you have been collecting EPIC games, it's an okay-ish bundle not great but okay.
If you have been collecting EPIC + Most all good value bundles for a while then you're almost paying sale prices for the stuff your missing. Which the issue with paying near sale prices on bundled games is you can not return them if you don't like them, so unless you know you're going to like them you're better off just paying the couple extra dollars for return protection. Actually taking the time to returning 1 or 2 games out of 4 during a big normal sale can literally save you more money than buying a bundle where you're only save a few dollars per game.

Or you want the games, pay "sales prices" for them and support some charity organizations with a bundle!

Because that's what these are about. If you're just looking for the cheapest prices, you're not the targeted audience.
That and grabbing free games on Epic, does absolutely nothing to support Linux and Steam Deck gaming. Additionally, there's no doubt many like me not really paying much attention at all to free games from Epic. While the Heroic Launcher is great, much prefer to stick with Steam and get bundles like this.
I have some questions about how this stores work:
How buying bundles on stores like HumbleBundle or Fanatical is supporting Linux?
- installing and playing a game in steam from Linux will raise the sales statistics the developers/publishers have access to? Are we sure "activated games" are handled the same way as "bought games"?
- will Valve get a percent of the cost of the keys in the bundle? You know, bandwidth, infrastructure etc.

The last thing I heard on that was:
it's counted for the platform on which you played most during the first 2 weeks or so?
but that's a while ago and it could have changed...
i mean: they also have statistics that take into account the platform on which you add something to your wishlist... so they may as well consider the platform you bought the game on...
spacemonkey Mar 11, 2023
@stormtux, Valve does _not_ get a cut for what is sold on Humble. As a developer you are allowed to give away as much keys as you want. So, you request like 5000 keys for Humble. Steam generates a key list for you, and that's uploaded to Humble.

Valve does have to approve all the key requests, but in my experience that's only to avoid scams.


Last edited by spacemonkey on 11 March 2023 at 7:27 am UTC
g000h Mar 11, 2023
Anyone want to go halfsies? I already own Control, Call of Sea, Hellblade. But I'm vaguely interested in the other half of the bundle.
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