Humble Bundle deals can be hard to beat and the latest is no exception. The Indie Fears bundle features over a dozen games for less than $20, including some instant classics like last year’s Mouthwashing and the more often overlooked Threshold.
Pay at least $13 (or more if you want to donate something extra to the Special Effect charity for helping gamers with disabilities) and you’ll unlock PC codes for 13 games. In addition to the sci-fi mystery about crewmates stranded in space and the atmospheric horror game about an attendant at a train station in the mountains, the bundle also gets you Buckshot Roulette, Arctic Eggs, Who’s Lila?, Order 13, No-Skin, Kiosk, Adios, The Boba Teashop, Daemonologie, Massacre at the Mirage, and Terror at Oakheart.
All of these games are highly rated on Steam, but I can personally vouch for Buckshot Roulette and Arctic Eggs, a surreal physics sim about cooking food for your fellow dissidents at a mysterious military prison. In addition to being cheap, these indie games don’t require a hulked-out PC to play them. If you have a laptop that came out in the last decade, you can probably play them just fine.
Four free games to try this Halloween
Okay, if $1 a piece wasn’t cheap enough for you, there are also some free horror games out there just waiting to be claimed. First up is Stasis, a 2015 point-and-click isometric adventure about emerging from a pod during a mysterious space voyage and figuring out what the hell is going on. “The game’s atmosphere is thick with tension, but it’s not trying to make you sweat the whole time, so the few moments it breaks things up and hits you with something shocking, it really works,” reads our original review. GOG is currently giving away the standard edition DRM-free for $0.00 through November 2.
The Epic Games Store is also giving out some Halloween freebies. There’s Bendy and the Ink Machine, the first-person horror puzzle game in the style of old-time cartoons. Put up with its sometimes monotonous point-and-click problem solving and you’ll be rewarded with some neat storytelling. Five Nights At Freddy’s: Into the Pit is also free to claim right now. It takes the usual formula and turns it into a 2D pixel art adventure. Is it the best FNaF game? No. But it’s the cheapest.
Finally, We Create Stuff, the team behind the acclaimed 2021 psychological horror puzzle game In Sound Mind, recently released a free game called Days Without Incident. It’s free to download and play and it’s getting some decent early Steam reviews. “This game has the same feeling as something Markiplier would have played back in the 2010s,” wrote one player. “It just oozes with old that school indie charm without relying on jump scares and loud noises every couple feet. Its definitely worth an hour of your time.”
Sounds like a great way to spend a night pigging out on overpriced candy.
