The Itch.io Indie bundle for Palestinian Aid - $5 for a gigantic mountain of crap. Let's dig through it.

[ducktales4gameboy]

Indie bundle for Palestinian Aid by Tybawai and 864 others

Indie bundle for Palestinian Aid: 1019 items for $5.00

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Echoing the Covid Relief bundle from last year Itch has published another massive bundle featuring a near impenetrable wall of garbage to scroll through, all of which can be yours for the low price of five dollars. This time Palestine gets the bag and I've already seen some limited chimping out over this choice of side.

If you find a good meltdown over this, a game worth playing or a horrible abomination, post it.

Worth a look:

Batbarian is worth the price of admission alone if you like metroidvanias.
Magic Wand is outsider art in the 2000s internet shitpost sense.
Luck Be A Landlord has some critical acclaim from the roguelike blogs, but I can't vouch for it personally yet think it's too random to be enjoyable, ymmv.

The inspiration for this thread:

If you're curious about how bad it is, here's a preview:

Spoiler: prepare yourself

Actually, that's the entire thing.

 

[Dustlord]

Its funny because most of those Palestinians would have gays killed, and the ones that wouldn't still see them as gross.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Muscle World
https://fotocopiadora.itch.io/muscle-world

Description

are you strong enough? venture where only the strongest come out alive... into the muscle world.

delve into its secrets with the power of muscle

redeem yourself through exercise

believe

• an enormous muscle world to explore!
• tense muscle action!
• secret locations and endings!
• inspiration!

A review.

, what an experience

i wanted to play because i like the character model (i love to see men in briefs! i want to see more)

i nearly quit after twenty minutes because it was slow, but i couldn't help but keep going. i stopped after an hour after becoming too sleepy.

i finished it tonight (the day after the first day), and i'm really sad it doesn't go on for much longer because i can imagine playing it every night for a week.

this is one of those experiences where i only want to play once and that's it. i want to keep the memory of this first playthrough as my only memory. it's very inspirational.

thank you.

Looking for more funnies and am mostly finding tabletop RPG campaigns, asset packs, shitposts, gay dating sims, and stuff that looks like it would be shovelware on the Atari 2600.

 

[Dergint]

I enjoyed Luck be a Landlord until I didn't. It scratches an itch for a gambling addict who refuses to whale, but once you break the game and there's no further risk of losing or things to acquire... Spinning starts to feel like a chore, and you have to abandon the game to start a new one. No save slots unless it's in a really recent patch.

Skimming the list myself I noticed:

• A couple games by David S Gallant. I don't remember who he is but it looks like he has a thread on here. Games look boring but if I did want to play them, here's my chance to decide whether I'd rather feed a Palestinan or a Rat King.
• Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! I never played it, but the prequel was good.
• 2021 Subscription Bundle. It's a bundle in a bundle! But what's in the bundle? Who knows, I didn't care enough to check. If you're lucky maybe it's yet another bundle!
• Pikuniku and Minit by Devolver Digital. Don't remember the details but I watched an LP before so they're not total no names. Edit: also A Good Snowman is Hard to Build, played by the same YouTuber. That one I remember was a puzzler.
• Hacknet. Pretend to be a 1337 h4x0r. I remember enjoying this like a decade ago.

Not sure it's enough to make me register for itch.io, but there's a few rubies in there. Maybe not diamonds, but rubies at least.

Spoiler: Paper Boats

Paper Boats is a small, experimental game about sharing and contemplating. There's not much to do, no enemies to kill or puzzles to solve. You can just look around, interact with the things around you and take screenshots.

Every once in a while, though, a paper boat will come sailing and stop in front of your dock, carrying a message for you, written by a stranger. Maybe it's a kind word of encouragement, or somebody emptying their worries into the void.

Good thing is that you can also send a message in your own paper boat, and let it sail for a stranger to read.

When you need a small break from reality, you can just hang around on the dock, watch the day go by and read messages from strangers.

The concept for the game is nothing new; you can find another examples of the mechanic in The Things We Lost In The Flood and in Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to), which greatly expands and improves upon the concept. Paper Boats is just my own, simple take on the genre and an excuse for me to release something interactive, albeit small.

I hope you enjoy it.

NOTE: In order to be as inclusive as possible, please try to write messages in English. Even if your English isn't that good, people won't judge =]

It's a game that let's you leave messages for other players, and hopes they'll be words of encouragement. In the wrong hands it would be a recipe for disaster.

If it actually had players.

It's usually name your own price so it's not worth picking up the bundle for, even if it were trollable.

 

[Arm_of_the_Lord]

Magic Wand is outsider art in the 2000s internet shitpost sense.

Thecatamites is a genius

 

[Ponchik]

wtf i hate paluhstein now

 

[ducktales4gameboy]

I’m noticing a couple of the good roguelikes from the last bundle are in this one too. Plunge is a R. Crumb looking sliding block roguelike about hairy women in a dungeon. If the core movement mechanic doesn’t put you off immediately it’s worth the hour or so it takes to beat. It’s brutally punishing though and a single mistake can end a run/

I enjoyed Luck be a Landlord until I didn't.

Ah well, at least it’s early access. Seems like the bones could be solid if the endgame gets polished at all.