More Indie Games Available with the Indie Royale Bundle

Here we go another bundle of great indie games brought to you by Indie Royale. This is a joint effort between video game editorial site IndieGames.com and Desura. For the next few days (at the time of writing this post) you can get some great games at lower prices. There is a difference between the system used here versus the recent humble bundle. The price for this bundle fluctuates depending on how much money is paid. You always have to pay the minimum price for the bundle. However, if you spend more for the bundle then the bundle becomes cheaper for the next people who buy it. If people just pay the minimum average price then the price will slowly increase over time. So this is not really a pay-what-you-want but pay-the-minimum-price. The great thing is that this bundle will spotlight indie game developers and bring some revenue to them so that they can create more games.

This particular bundle that they are selling at the moment is called the "Difficult 2nd Bundle".

Not really sure why it's called the Difficult 2nd Bundle.

Here is what you get with this bundle according to the previews on the website:

1. NightSky
Nominated as a IGF Seamus McNally Finalist, NightSky is an ambient action-puzzle game that offers a gameplay experience unlike any other, as cerebral challenges fill uniquely designed picturesque worlds. The player must maneuver a sphere by using realistic physics to advance; each of these worlds is broken into different areas. The original soundtrack by experimental jazz musician Chris Schlarb will further heighten the surreal experience. IndieGames.com says: "NightSky does things with balls that you never thought possible, and is stunning in motion."


2. Fate of the World
Fate of the World is a strategy game that simulates the real social and environmental impact of global climate change over the next 200 years. The science, the politics, the destruction - it’s all real, and it’s scary. Your mission: Solve the crisis. But, like life, it won’t be easy. You’ll have to work through natural disasters, foreign diplomacy, clandestine operations, technological breakthroughs, and somehow satisfy the food and energy needs of a growing world population. Will you help the planet or become an agent of destruction? IndieGames.com says: "A superbly addictive management game about the future of the Earth, in which no-one is ever damn happy."


3. Scoregasm
Scoregasm is an incredible, variety rich shooter with a non-linear, branching paths style galaxy to explore. It's pretty, accessible, fun and really rather good! Blast your way through the galaxy's many varied levels! Use your skills to change your route, find new levels, new enemies, unlock bonus challenge stages and fight the bosses to discover multiple endings! Linux users: Scoregasm is a 32bit app, so you'll need the appropriate 32bit libraries installed to run the game on a 64bit system. IndieGames.com says: "Scoregasmic! One of the best space shooters of 2011 by a good light year or two."


4. Ben There, Dan That! and Time Gentlemen, Please!
Ben There, Dan That! and Time Gentlemen, Please! are a couple of rip-roaring point-and-click adventure games . With tongue firmly in cheek, sit back, relax, and put your mind to work solving puzzles, and reading some very funny dialogue. It's like a book, only good! From an horrific and untimely death in deep, dark Peru, via preposterous-and-suspect alien invasions, to whipping back-and-forth in time to stop Hitler and his army of robot Nazi dinosaur clones, this is one set of adventures you're unlikely to forget. IndieGames.com says: "Nazi dinosaurs. Need we say more?"

It looks like there will be more bundles coming in the coming weeks.

I look forward to stocking up on some great games and helping out developers along the way.