With a Humble subscription, you can save a lot of money every month. The January Monthly Bundle should make strategy lovers especially happy.
Humble Bundle always has great offers where you can get games for significantly less than you would pay directly on Steam. The current Humble Monthly offer is particularly worthwhile, because for just ten dollars this time you get eight games worth over $200. Among them are some really excellent titles.
In January, the Humble game subscription is particularly worthwhile for strategy fans – and there are a lot of them among GlobalESportNews readers.
But the best thing about it is that with your Humble subscription, not only do you get a few cheap Steam keys to expand your game library, but you also automatically donate money to charity. That’s because 5% of every Humble membership goes to charities that change monthly.
In January, you can support the Make-A-Wish Foundation, which grants the wishes of terminally ill children.
These games are available for $10 in January
Highlight 1: Jagged Alliance 3
Jagged Alliance 3 is a turn-based strategy game with role-playing elements that lets you lead a group of tough-as-nails elite mercenaries in the fictional country of Grand Chien
And because no mission is too difficult for your troop, you are the ones who are called to help when the president is kidnapped by rebels.
You command the skirmishes from the isometric perspective; with the help of active pause, you can orient yourself and give orders. An almost completely destructible environment and a high degree of tactical diversity draw you into the action in a credible way. Your decisions have a noticeable effect over the course of the match and a sense of drama is virtually guaranteed thanks to features like friendly fire.
In his follow-up review, our tester and strategy expert Martin Deppe found that Jagged Alliance 3 successfully continues the long-standing strategy series thanks to its challenging turn-based tactical battles, the well-thought-out strategy part and the cool mercenaries from back in the day. That’s why the game got the top rating of 90 from us in the test.
Highlight 2: Against the Storm
Against the Storm is a city-building game that skillfully combines the classic aspects of the genre with survival elements and roguelite mechanics, all topped off with a generous helping of fantasy. The result is an exciting mix that will challenge you as a city planner time and again.
In the campaign, you build new settlements in the hostile area surrounding the capital on behalf of the queen. You not only supply hard-working citizens, but also have to take into account the needs of beavers, lizards, harpies and foxes. The randomly generated maps conceal different resources and events, but also real dangers. This makes every settlement project different, and you have to develop new strategies throughout.
Against the Storm was released in its final version in December 2023 after a two-year early access phase, adding a wealth of content to the refreshing city-building game. You can read about how good the dark and complex city-builder ultimately is in the detailed review that we’ve linked to above.
More games in the January Humble Monthly Bundle:
- Blasphemous 2: Tough Metroidvania with a high level of difficulty that pushed our tester Mario Donick to his personal and gaming limits. The sequel is a consistent further development of its predecessor; the fights are demanding but gripping, the game world entices with a dark atmosphere and lore.
- Beneath Oresa: A deck-building game with combat where you face your opponents deep in the bowels of the city. Choose your cards, upgrades and artifacts wisely and use the positioning of your enemies to your advantage.
- Fort Solis: In Fort Solis, you will go to Mars. In the skin of engineer Jack Leary, you will have to survive a night at the eponymous research station on our inhospitable neighboring planet. In just over five hours, the game will serve you up thrilling horror entertainment à la Until Dawn.
- Boxes: Lost Fragments: The premise of this puzzle game is simple. As a thief, you break into a luxurious villa and have to open a series of boxes with complex and mysterious locks in order to get to the riches hidden inside. Your determination and skill will be put to the test here.
- Dordogne: A lovingly designed nostalgia trip back to a carefree childhood in the French province. The story adventure game sends you into the memories of a girl named Mimi, who is trying to come to terms with her life choices and unravel lost family secrets.
- The Pegasus Expedition: This grand strategy game is reminiscent of Stellaris, but is turn-based and has a coherent story. In the best 4X tradition, you can colonize new planets to your heart’s content, strengthen your economy and research with new buildings, engage in diplomacy with other factions, or send fleets into battle.
This is how you get the game package from Humble for ten euros
To take advantage of this offer, you need to subscribe to Humble Monthly Don’t worry: all games are provided as Steam keys and will remain yours even if you immediately cancel the membership afterwards
To do this, simply open your user settings via the link above and select the Manage Your Subscription option under the Humble Choice sub-item. All you have to do now is click on Cancel Membership, confirm your cancellation and you won’t have to worry about any ongoing costs.
