IGN Live 2025 Humble Bundle has a nice mixture of games

This is a pretty sweet bundle. I got it for Medium, which I've been meaning to try for quite a while, but I've also had my eye on Black Book and Potion Craft, so this was an easy purchase. I might even try Wartales - I saw 2dKiri streaming that a few months back and it looked pretty good, even if it's not really my bag.

Wartales started out awesome for me. I love turn based rpgs. And the overworld is SOOOO well done with the unique graphical style, and exploration, etc...

What killed it for me was the insane difficulty + permadeath of squadmates. It took me SOOOO long to get a good squad built up, like in terms of real life hours spent, and then the game would hit you with scenarios where it's pretty much impossible not to lose a squadmate, which in terms of "winning" is still totally fine. BUT that person is gone forever, and often times was important, so now I'd have to go spend another forever finding and recruiting a decent replacement with the right perks, etc... To me it just felt like a massive FU to the respect of a gamers time investment. For a while I tried to play the scenarios with no deaths at all, but the frustration levels got so high I just gave up entirely.