Humble Bundle key redemption is awesome again (mostly) but the games are kinda meh

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Fort Triumph and Atomicrops both have their own threads hereabouts.

Fort Triumph - HoMM meets Xcom!

What a pleasant surprise this game is turning out to be. Released today on Steam in full, and my first hour has been a joy. It has the town building and map exploration of HoMM, combined with combat similar to Xcom. I doubted this store description when I first read it, but so far, it has been exactly that. The HoMM parts are more similar to HoMM3 than the more recent titles, and that is just perfect to me. You build town upgrades to allow more units per team, or to allow additional teams, or va…

Atomicrops - plow, plant, and pow on a farm

Atomicrops is a slightly quirky rogue like where you inherit a modest farm. You balance planting and nurturing seeds during the day with fending off waves of monsters that attack during the night. 3 days makes a season, 4 seasons a year, and I don’t know what happens after that because I haven’t gotten to the end of Year 1 yet. At the end of each night you return to town where harvested crops turn into filthy lucre and you spend said lucre on upgrades so you can keep planting and…