The Humble Store, Humble Bundle’s storefront celebrates its first birthday by giving away Metro 2033, the survival horror first-person shooter video game released by THQ (currently Deep Silver) in 2010 for free. Hurry up, there are just a few hours left of the offer! Besides, the anniversary has triggered a series of considerable discounts – the list contains titles like Metro Redux, Batman: Arkham Origins, Crusader Kings II Collection and many more.
Humble Bundles are a series of digital creations sold through a digital storefront for a good price, often on a “pas what you want” basis. A part – usually 10% – of the amount paid by the customers for the “bundles” are offered to charities. This week’s sales raise funds for the American Red Cross, the Child’s Play Charity, the World Land Trust, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Charity: Water. Since its launch, the birthday promotion has raised over $1.5 million for them.
The first bundle was organized and managed by Wolfire Games, the developer behind indie titles like Black Shades, Desperate Gods, Lugaru and the upcoming Overgrowth. Starting with the second bundle, Humble Bundle Inc. was formed with the sole purpose of organizing and managing the sale of the bundles. If the company initially sold only indie video games, it later added ebooks and music to its offer, as well as mobile apps. All bundle sales contribute to charities, offering 10% of the total amount raised to various organizations.
And now a word about Metro 2033, the game offered free by the Humble Store as its birthday gift to you. Metro 2033 is a video game based on the novel with the same title written by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky in 2055. The novel, as well as the game, takes the reader / player to a Moscow devastated by nuclear explosions, with the inhabitants forced to live in the tunnels of the local underground. The protagonist of the game is Artyom, a youngster with a quest to help his loved ones repel the attack of the Dark Ones. For this he has to fight his way through mutants and bandits, Soviets and Nazis, in the dark and fearsome tunnels of the Moscow underground.