Another month has dawned, and that means Humble has another bundle of PC games available for its Humble Choice subscribers ($12/month). This month, there are eight games available in the bundle, including some big-name indie sequels like A Plague Tale: Requiem and Ghostrunner 2, plus a selection of shooters, strategy games, and action games, all of which are yours to keep forever, even if you cancel your Humble Choice subscription. On top of the games, this month’s bundle also includes a surprising bonus: a month of DC Universe Infinite, which lets you read thousands of DC Comics in the DC Universe app.
Humble Choice July 2024 games
- Ghostrunner 2
- A Plague Tale: Requiem
- Starship Troopers: Terran Command
- Sticky Business
- Zoeti
- Figment 2: Creed Valley
- Heretic’s Fork
- Hyperviolent
- Bonus: One-month subscription to DC Universe Infinite
This month’s headliner is A Plague Tale: Requiem, a steath/action sequel about a teen girl and her little brother trying to survive during the Black Death. It’s a particularly fascinating sequel, because the first game came out in late 2019 just months before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Reqiuem was released in 2022–you can see in this game a bit of that shift in perspective that we all experienced over the past four years.
Ghostrunner 2, another glossy indie, is a parkour-based action game in which the player and their enemies alike die with a single hit from a blade–this franchise is like Mirror’s Edge and Dishonored had a baby that was really intense but also fun. And it’s nice to have a hardcore action game that skews away from soulslike norms.
Moving away from the action genre, we’ve got Starship Troopers: Terran Command, a real-time strategy title that’s all about humans vs arachnids. If you’ve been enjoying the Starship Troopers-esque Helldivers 2 and are itching for a change of pace, Terran Command will hit the spot.
What’s cool about Humble Choice is the variety you get from the bundle each month, and July’s has some particularly interesting titles. Like Sticky Business, a game about designing stickers and selling them online–Etsy Simulator, basically. Then there’s a pair of deck-builders–turn-based rogue-lite Zoeti, and the casually quirky Heretic’s Fork. Figment 2: Creed Valley, meanwhile, is a well-timed choice, because it’s a franchise that takes place in the human mind, with a player character who is an emotion–it’s a game that pairs well with a viewing of Inside Out 2. And no Humble Choice would be complete without a boomer shooter, and this month it’s Hyperviolent, which plays like Doom but has the atmosphere and structure of System Shock.
And, finally, a bonus: a month of DC Universe Infinite, which will give you access to thousands of digital comics from DC in the DC Universe app and on the web. A month of DC Universe usually costs $8, and a normal free trial for the service is only seven days. So this is a nice little addition.
A subscription to Humble Choice will run you $12 per month or $129 for a year. As soon as you sign up, you’ll be able to access Steam keys for all eight games in the bundle, as well as a code for the DC Universe Infinite trial. Since you’re getting Steam codes for the games, that means you get to keep them forever. And while you’re subscribed, you’ll get discounts from the Humble Store, and access to a rotating library of indie PC games.
