I actually like point-and-click adventure games. Would be a better bundle for me personally if I didn’t already have the complete Journey Down and if I wasn’t the only person to hate To The Moon.
Looking forward to Wandersong a bunch, I’ll take a peek at AC Origins although I don’t think I’ll put the time into it like I’m still doing with Odyssey. And I’ve often enjoyed the Humble Originals - last month’s A Short Hike was quite good.
Glad I paused this month. Absolutely pausing next month, as CoD:BlOps 4 holds zero interest for me. Actually, I may even cancel altogether, and then see if after next months reveal I don’t get a “come back and we’ll knock $X off” email.
EDIT : So it offers you $3 off the current month when you attempt to cancel if you elect to stay and pay instead. I cancelled anyway, but for folks who are on pause, and then see a reveal they might be interested in, but not $12 interested, that’s not a bad option ($9 for the month instead of $12).
Makes me wonder if chapter one is terrible? “Let’s give away the best part and hope that suckers people into buying the worst part!”
Thread title isn’t that accurate of late.
Wandersong and Do Not Feed the Monkeys were both honorable mentions at this year’s IGF and both are worth playing. I personally preferred Wandersong’s joyous optimism over Monkeys’ cynicism. But anyway, they’re two recent solid indie games, and I think it makes this a pretty good month.
Despite the fact that I already have both of those, I’m pretty pleased about this month, as it has a lot of games I will at least try because they sound different. And AC:Origins is the only one of that series that has some appeal for me.
That said, I’m generally discouraged by all the AAA headliners. It probably works well for them commercially, but I’m usually not interested and that’s certainly true of CODBLOPS.
LMN8R
2036
Finding Paradise is a fantastic game. Can’t recommend it enough - but make sure you play To The Moon first.
Let’s not go full hyperbole.
Past month had Northgard + Mutant Year Zero, and I heard lots of praise to Dandara.
And the previous month to that had Vermintide 2, which is on top of its genre, and some nice indie games as complement like Cultist Simulator.
robc04
2038
I was thinking I hope they don’t go out of business before I redeem the rest of my months :-)
I had the exact same thought…
AC: Origins was the sole reason I bought this month, Wanderlust sounds good but the rest is a wash. Not upset due to AC as I’ve heard it’s good.
Gorath
2041
I pretty sure chapter 1 and 2 were in a couple of other bundles over the years. I have given away a copy of the 1&2 bundle more than a year ago, so I had at least 2 of them.
The Steam reviews don’t leave the impression that there’s anything wrong with part 1.
Some months are good some are bad, this was a great month for the headliner title, the remaining games fodder was so-so.
Thraeg
2043
Well this was the biggest dud in a while. None of the reveals does anything for me, and Call of Duty is the worst possible type of headliner – one I’ll never play but that sells for enough that it probably ate up most of the monthly budget.
My one-year subscription is up anyway. Went ahead and cancelled for now.
Looking back at the year’s worth of games, I’m having a hard time evaluating whether it was worth it. In terms of money, I probably came out ahead, since there were quite a few titles I was mildly interested in and might have bought at a deep discount at some point. But in terms of time, I didn’t actually find time to play most of those. When I look at the games I actually played for more than a couple of hours in that year, it goes Into the Breach, Battletech, Dark Souls 2, Ni-Oh, Bard’s Tale IV, Battle Brothers, Yakuza 0, of which only Yakuza was from the Monthly.
Eh, I’ll probably get pulled back in by some headliner or promo or other. This year hasn’t quite lived up to the glory days of Total Warhammer and XCOM2 in terms of long-term value, but still saved me money on indulging my curiosity and sampling a wide range of stuff.
robc04
2044
I would have been very happy with AC Origins as the headliner if I didn’t have it already. The prior month was good though.
Finding Paradise comes with the DLC as downloads. Comics & soundtrack.
COD 4 is battlenet-only & a 100 GB install. That’s an easy pass for me.
No offer if we cancel by removing a credit card. I didn’t get any of the annoying pops up at all that way.
Anyone know what if anything was added to the Trove? I’m pausing again this month because I’m not into multiplayer-only competitive shooters. This just revealed month would have been awesome IF I didn’t already have AC Origins.
Agreed. I’ve been playing a lot of Northgard lately, and bought into that month for both it and Mutant Year Zero (the headliners) at $6 a piece (steal).
And as you point out, Vermintide 2 and Cultist Simulator at $6 each the month before was a great deal too.
It’s been up and down for the past 18 months or so, but I’m not ready to count it out just yet. Even this month, the historical low to date on Assassin’s Creed : Origins is $17-$18 on places like Uplay, Steam, GMG and Fanatical, so $12 represented a historic bargain by $5 on just that one game.
Yeah, this was a pretty meh month.
