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Humble Choice is getting another price increase

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Last updated: 26 Jun 2025 at 2:24 pm UTC

Humble Bundle have announced their monthly selection of games in Humble Choice is getting a price increase. Seems like this will affect nearly all subscribers across different regions, even if you had the "Classic Plan" that has the lower price, it's appears to also be increasing.

From what I've been sent the pricing is going up to which starts next month:

Currency

Monthly Rate (Old / New)

Annual Rate (Old / New)

GBP

£8.99 / £11.49

£98 / £119.99

EUR

€12.99 / €12.99

€109 / € 134.99

USD

$11.99 / $14.99

$129 / $154.99

CAD

CA$17.99 / CA$17.99

CA$159 / CA$194.99

AUD

AU$16.95 / AU$20.95

AU$179 / AU$219.95

CNY

¥79 / ¥95

¥850 / ¥998

*The figures for some months in some regions didn't change but did rise for annual subs.

There's a lot of complaints about it that I've seen across social media, with many not happy about the increase.

Thinking on it from a point of view as someone who doesn't currently subscribe (but I have done in the past), the pricing still seems reasonable to me. In the UK, that's £11.49 to get 8 games every month which is pretty good. When you think about things like Microsoft's Game Pass, there you don't get to keep anything but here you can build up a whole collection and the games are yours even after you cancel.

Still, any increase is not a great feeling for consumers. Especially with the price of so many other things going up. I'm certainly not blind to that (my own water bill just doubled for example).

But, we also have to think about the business side of it. Even before this price rise, when you look at the split between Humble Bundle and then to the individual developers - it's not exactly a lot (and that's before other cuts like taxes and so on). However, that does also depend on the scale of subscribers, those numbers will add up fast if there's a lot but Humble never give out subscriber numbers.

What are your thoughts?

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pleasereadthemanual 23 hours ago
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Humble Bundle was good for building up my collection of games over the years, but I barely pay for one humble choice a year, if that, anymore. There's just nothing I'm interested in. So the price doesn't matter to me.
Turkeysteaks 23 hours ago
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£2.50 extra a month isn't ideal, but I'm not super bummed to be honest. I think I'm on the classic plan, can't even remember now.

Honestly it probably saves me a lot of money nowadays as it's broken me out of the habit of buying games so frequently in a weird way. Plus there's almost always at least one game per month from my wishlist.

As a side note, fairly frequently I own a game already and usually I hand the keys out to my buddies but is there any kind of GamingOnLinux giveaway I could pass them onto?
lordgabor 22 hours ago
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I unsubscribed from it from a few weeks ago. I wanted to pause only, but when I did that, I immediately lost access my store discount. Not at the end of the month, when the renewal should have happened, but right when I paused. Then I cancelled it altogether.
I also have a very large Steam Library, even if I don't buy anything, I am stocked for the rest of my life I guess. emoji
Ehvis 21 hours ago
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The only thing I can say is that the problem is not price, the problem is value.
Klaas 21 hours ago
I've never been subscribed to Humble Choice because I don't like subscription model stuff and the selection of games mostly seem too random for me.



As a side note, fairly frequently I own a game already and usually I hand the keys out to my buddies but is there any kind of GamingOnLinux giveaway I could pass them onto?
There were some inofficial giveaways when the Forum and PM functionality were still available.
Thibug 21 hours ago
What I find strange is that for Euro/CAD there's only an increase in the yearly subscription and not the monthly one emoji

I stopped paying for Choice a long time ago as it was starting to be less qualitative and a lot of game I already owned were in it. It was nice to build my collection of 50% not played games tho emoji
dpanter 20 hours ago
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Been subbing since... I don't even remember how long ago, I'll keep going because why not, it's just games. I get a lot of games from it. Even though they still haven't gotten a key for Racine from the March choice, and I can't believe Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered ran out of keys within hours... anyway.
doragasu 20 hours ago
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I have been subscribed in the past and got many great games for a very low price. But IMO value of the games is lower and lower each time. Every month I check the games and if lucky, only one of them interests me, so I started skipping a lot of months ago until I completely unsubscribed.

If this price increase will allow them increasing the value of the games offered, it could be a good thing for me. Otherwise...
chickenb00 19 hours ago
@doragasu
Agreed that the selection is fairly uniformly bad to my eyes. Each month has one recognizably good game, one or maybe two games which are known-quantities, and then the rest are to put it nicely, Indie-Me-Too games that are an alternative take on an existing game type.
I've never subscribed to this so I can't really complain, but my point is I've never seen the value in subscribing if I'm mostly getting chaff that I may leave in key-form, unclaimed.
shadow1w2 14 hours ago
If we could exchange unwanted games for store credit for buying bundles and other deals then I wouldnt mind but an increase with nothing new to make the deal feel just a tad better is kinda lazy.

I end up with a lot of game duplicates and sit on keys awhile which sometimes expire with an expiration date added out of no where roght before it expires.

If its gotta increase then they gotta improve on something.

Plus the lack of choice kibd of cannibalizes their regular bundles since there are sometimes duplicates, sometimes with the dlc thw choice version was missing.

Fanatical's build a bundles work out for me better these days.

Yet I kept subscribing cause I want something to look forward to each month beh.
Maybe time to leave the subscription.


Last edited by shadow1w2 on 26 Jun 2025 at 11:15 pm UTC
Phlebiac 6 hours ago
is there any kind of GamingOnLinux giveaway I could pass them onto

You can always give away keys on steamgifts:
https://www.steamgifts.com/

You can restrict giveaways to members of the GOL group if you want:
https://www.steamgifts.com/group/76vf4/gamingonlinux
Phlebiac 6 hours ago
As for the Humble Choice subscription - I end up pausing a lot of months, so my annual subscriptions end up lasting a while. Even with the price increase, it's still worth it to me, as long as they don't mess with the pausing option. If the selection sucks, my subscription just lasts longer. If it gets to the point where it sucks every month, it will tank completely, and I doubt they want that (unless they are trying to shut it down).
PixelDrop 6 hours ago
For as long as they keep letting me skip months I will stay subscribed. But they get rid of the skip month feature. I am gone. I've had a sub there since the dawn of the system, I've probably skipped more months than not because of unintresting games, or months where I already owned all the interesting games.
Belaptir 4 hours ago
@thibug That's because EU and CAD got their raise in monthly in may.
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