Former Humble Bundle staff launch new bundle site Digiphile to "benefit users, creators, publishers, and charity"

Coming from veterans of Humble Bundle, a new bundle site has launched named Digiphile as the creators want to help you discover new games and support charity. They're calling the packs collections.

Why another bundle site? They were "Frustrated with the shortcomings of current bundle sites", and noted how there's so many thousands of games releasing on Steam each year and they believe the solution "isn't more choice, but better curation" to help you find games that are worth playing. With their collections aiming to "bring back the good old days of bundles, with no more than one premium offering at a time, functioning as community-wide events that include curator engagement, guest curator deep dives, and more features to come".

Interestingly, they have a sort-of key exchange system too. You can trade in a key for a game you already have to earn credits towards a title from a previous collection. They're also promising none of the key issues that plague Humble Bundle a bit lately, with keys being reserved the moment you checkout.

With the charity side of it, you can optionally add extra to your purchases to give more money to selected charities while also grabbing some bonus content with the collection.

From the press release: "Working at Humble Bundle was a dream come true for a fan like me. And I'm not alone. We were all fans of Humble Bundle even before we worked there”, said Digiphile Founder Alex Hill. “Now we’re committed to staying true to Humble’s spirit and building what we loved about it in the first place."

Fully independent and self-funded too, so they don't answer to some bigger company constantly chasing a bigger profit at the expense of everything and everyone else.

A first collection "Return of the Immersive Sim" is due to go live today featuring System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster, Perepiteia, Shadows of Doubt, Fallen Aces, Blood West, System Shock and CTRL ALT EGO. Not entirely sure exactly when, it appeared briefly for me earlier, then vanished on the next refresh. The press release did not give an exact time for it.

Well, it's clearly another bundle site but at least they're really trying to be different by the sounds of it. Will be fun to see how this evolves and if they bring out some good bundles. I'm certainly not complaining, I do love a good deal.

See more on the newly launched website.