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Humble Indie Bundle V Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the linux-is-winning-again dept.

New submitter Splintercat writes "The Humble Indie Bundle V has just been released, featuring Psychonauts, LIMBO, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, and Bastion for Windows, OSX and Linux. Ubuntu software center support has also been added as a method of downloading."

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  1. Pretty good bundle by tocsy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Worth it for Psychonauts alone, if you don't have it. I'd never heard of any of the other games but I've been told they're all pretty spectacular.

    1. Re:Pretty good bundle by dyingtolive · · Score: 5, Informative

      Amnesia is amazing. I really need to go back and finish it. Sword and Sworcery is... interesting, but the soundtrack is pretty decent if you're in to that kind of thing.

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  2. Limbo Linux port by ProbablyJoe · · Score: 4, Informative

    Unfortunately the Linux 'port' of Limbo is actually just a Wine wrapper. It doesn't even run for me, some say it works worse than running the Windows binary in Wine, or have reported various problems and bad performance.

    Pretty lazy when every other game has managed to make a proper native Linux port.

  3. Re:Never heard of these games by ProbablyJoe · · Score: 3, Informative

    Amnesia is the only one I've played, which is very good. Bastion and Limbo are also very highly rated. Don't know anything about the one.

  4. More bundles by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you're into indie game bundles. There are currently several other active bundles:
    Groupees Build a Bundle
    Indie Gala
    Indie Royale Graduation Bundle
    Bundle in a Box

  5. Cross platform via wine by ProteusMoteus · · Score: 5, Informative

    Limbo on Linux is a wine bottle that runs with very poor performance. Trying to improve performance via the latest version of wine exposes a recent bug (shader model 3.0). Psychonauts on Linux is a real icculus port, but is just a wine bottle on Mac.

    Don't consider wine compatibility as the type of support for Mac/Linux that I expected from the Humble Indie Bundle.

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