The Humble Friends of Nintendo Bundle is the second 'Humble Bundle' that has featured eShop games, and is the first to be available globally. We previously reported that it had started quickly with over 60,000 bundles sold in under 24 hours, and it's now passed another notable landmark.
At the time of writing the bundle has passed $1 million dollars in total payments, spread across more than 103,000 bundle sales. The current purchase average of roughly $10 is pretty decent going for the Humble Bundle platform, perhaps helped by the presence of a few retail games in the bundle. If you missed it before the following games are currently available.
Pay $1
- Retro City Rampage: DX (3DS)
- Affordable Space Adventures (Wii U)
- Shantae and the Pirate's Curse (Wii U and 3DS)
Pay over the average (around $9.75 at the time of writing)
- Freedom Planet (Wii U)
- Rhythm Thief & The Emperor's Treasure (3DS)
- Citizens of Earth (Wii U and 3DS)
- Retro City Rampage: DX 3DS HOME Theme
Pay over $13
The good news is that more games are going to be added very soon. These will be available for those who pay over the average, and if you've already bought the bundle 'above average' at the time you'll have the new games added to your collection. Some eShop store placements have prompted thoughts over what is coming next, but it's ultimately tricky to tell whether they're accurate or just the store showing similar games in a list; we'll all know very soon.
If you want to check out the bundle the link is below and right here. It's due to end on 10th May, and often mid-bundle additions can add a spike to sales; we'll see whether that happens this time.
Further Reading:
- Interview: Nintendo of America's Damon Baker on the Brave New World of Humble Nindie Bundle
- Feature: Humble Nindie Bundle - The Developer's Perspective
- Interview: Humble Co-Founder John Graham on the Creation and Potential Future of the Humble Nindie Bundle
With thanks to Ryan Millar for the heads up.
[source humblebundle.com]
Comments 94
That's amazing. I hope they do this more often
Shantae, Retro City Rampage and Affordable Space Adventures for just 1$ was a great deal.
Happy to hear that! The games are amazing and the prices are dirt cheap. Would have been pretty sad if Europe was excluded again.
I'll probably splurge in again if what they propose next is interesting.
One small and pedantic bit here: Citizens of Earth, for me anyway, was 3DS OR Wii U, not both. I was confused at first when I didn't see it popping right up, so I imagine others will be a bit perplexed by that as well.
Glad to see this doing so well.
hope the next game they add is good.
Really digging the amazing deals here. Hope the next nintendo humble bundles will also allow Europeans to participate.
this is awesome! I got the $13 dollar pack even though I already owned Super Street Fighter IV 3D and don't have a Wii U to play Darksiders II in. my favorite thing about this is the exclusive theme, and of course that it's available in EUROPE 😃 I hope they do another bundle someday!
Really happy that it's done so well!
is there any disadvantage if i will wait for what games are added next?
" Some eShop store placements have prompted thoughts over what is coming next, but it's ultimately tricky to tell whether they're accurate or just the store showing similar games in a list; we'll all know very soon."
Out of interest, what are those possible next games?
13 bucks was more than worth it for several of those by itself.
I don't have a 3DS but bought the $13 pack mainly for Freedom Planet and Citizens of Earth and gave the 3DS codes to my cousin. He was so happy to have brand new games to play just out of the blue and we're playing Shantae side by side.
I would never get Shantae or Affordable Space Adventures at regular sales, but I'm positively surprised by those games. ASA makes remarkable use of the GamePad and it's even in freakin' Portuguese, my mother tongue. Wow, just shear wow.
Can someone explain to me how this works? From what I understood you pay the amount it shows above or more and can choose one of the games. Or do you get all of them in that category?
@MarioPhD yes i even contacted the customer service about it xD
@invictus4000 You get them all in the category. So at the very least. $1 for three games is amazing.
Anybody knows what are the potential games the article talks about?
@ericwithcheese2 Wow thats insane! Is it for charity or something?
@invictus4000 Yeah, even before you pay, you can decide how much of your payment goes to charity and Nintendo.
@invictus4000
Yes, some of it goes to charity. Each purchase gets split 3 ways. Nintendo, charity and a tip jar for the humble bundle site. What's kinda cool is you can adjust the amounts, so for instance, most of my purchase went towards charity.
Cool
I paid $13 to get the two retail games. Very curious to see what the mid-bundle additions will be.
Got the $10 bundle, gave most of the spent money to charity.
Hopefully, Nintendo is taking notes here, and arranges another bundle at some point. It's good to follow the PC market way... Now you all know why it's so good for people who aren't rich!
@joealejos I'd be curious too
@invictus4000 You get ALL of them in your chosen category, in addition to everything below that category, then choose which version of each that you want when you request your redeeming code.
So much about this was wonderful. I got 4 new games, gave my extra codes for Shantae and Freedom Planet to the son of a co-worker and gave to charity. The whole thing made me really happy
Although you should support this for charity,I have codes for EU Shantae for Wii U and Affordable Space Adventures to spare.Mail me at [email protected]
I'm getting this. I am just waiting to see what games are added tomorrow before I get this. I have Rhythm Thief and SSFIV 3D already but I'll just give the codes to my son.
@joealejos There's a "recommended games" section of the eshop that has a similar image to the humble bundle one and has the games in the bundle and more. People are guessing games in the recommended section but not currently part of the bundle will be the ones added to it.
I appreciate developers that put their games in a Humble Bundle. I don't have an infinite amount of money so I pass up a bunch of grade games throughout the year... so when something like this pops up it is nice to support good charities and receive great games too. Even if all you do is put $1 in you get some great games there... but put in $13 plus if you have it!
@6ch6ris6 The 'beat the average' price could go up a $ or 2, but you'll never need to pay more than $13 to get everything
Can't wait to see what they will add tomorrow. I hope it's something I don't already have :v
ten dollars well spent. I can't wait to see what else I'll get when they add more.
Here's to more Humble Nintendo Bundles in the future!
I put in 15 bucks, and I felt like I was giving them a TON of money, until I started downloading the games, and then I felt kind of cheap and guilty... and then I started playing.
It is awesome!
I think the update is 11AM Eastern Tuesday. I checked last week and was going to only pay a $1 for Shantae but then decided to wait and see if there was anything added I wanted. I would still like to play Chariot and Stick it to the Man. Not expecting them, but didn't see any harm in waiting.
I don't understand how this deal works. Are those games listed on the eShop as those prices, or do you have to buy something to activate these prices?
@abbyhitter Go to the Humble Bundle site and donate the money to them. They email you a link that you can access - there you get the codes which you use on eShop.
This is an awesome bundle. Never knew this kind of things happened before! Bought it!!
If you like this kind of thing I encourage you to put in $13 or more. It really encourages them to do this again on the future. Plus you're getting $100 worth of games so it doesn't hurt to add a few Ezra bucks.
I'm really happy with this bundle even though I had a few already. Rythym Thief and Citizens of Earth have really surprised me at how good they are.
@Hey-Cha-La Oh, I had no idea this was for charity. How did I miss this? It wasn't mentioned in the article.
@plug313 If you don't need that code, can I have it? I want to give it to a friend. If not I understand.
I got the $13 bundle. Street Fighter is the only one I've tried so far.
@MarioPhD Citizens of Earth has a demo for both 3DS and Wii U, you can download it to decide which version you want
@abbyhitter There was an earlier article last week here that explained things a bit clearer. There was a Humble Bundle package last year too which I supported as well.
Citizens of Earth you choose between 3DS or Wii U versions, you don't get both.
Can't wait to see the free games coming tomorrow at 2pm est, hopefully it's a couple of great games
I've already beat Shantae and the Pirate's Curse, and I really recommend ppl get the bundle just for that game alone.
I have all those games except for Freedom Planet, it will be interesting to see what else gets added though.
edit: I don't have rhythm thief either but neither game is appealing to me.
I already have Retro City Rampage already for my 3ds so heres a code for someone lucky! B0L8L5G706PJ00TX
@50reynoldsn93 Thanks
That's not really impressive considering I've seen bundles on the site get way more sales.
@NESguy94
I actually got the whole bundle just for Rhythm Thief. Terrific, very fun game. Plus I got several other games, gave away codes for the ones I had already, AND gave some money to charity. It's a win for everybody. Totally worth the $15!
Spent $13 because I have been wanting Rhythm Thief for a while now. On top of that SHANTAE, FREEDOM PLANET, and AFFORDABLE SPACE ADVENTURES were all on my Wish List. Finally, I just traded in my DARKSIDERS 2 towards POKKEN TOURNAMENT... so now it is now back with its save file on my external. Just an all-around great value.
Really curious to see what the other games are going to be. I've held off for now since the only games i want are in the 1 dollar category, but i wouldn't mind Rhythm Thief either. I've already got SF IV and Darksiders 2.
I own nearly all of them so lets see what new games will be added
Call me naive, but I hoped it would be integrated into the e-shop, meaning that if I choose a game I can also use the amount of e-shop credit I want to spend on it.
Now I have to go to the humble-site and use Paypal or stuff like that. I don't want that, so sadly no discounts for me!
Is Humble Bundle still US exclusive ?
@Einherjar No. First line of the article.
@C-Olimar Well, consider me blind
Thanks for the headsup, i somehow completely missed that.
I own most of these games already, so I'm waiting it out a bit to see which games are added. Great initiative though.
Every Wii U should be equipped with Affordable Space Adventures.
@Henmii It's really not very difficult to do and it's both for a good cause and a fantastic deal. Also, the new Nintendo website has a page for entering download codes so you can just cut and paste them into that, saving all the tapping away on the code screen of the eshop. https://eshop.nintendo.net/redeem
Despite already owning a couple of these games, I simply couldn't resist such a fabulous bargain!
A whisker over £9 for entire package is bordering on criminal. I'd have paid double that for Rhythm Thief alone!
I dropped $25 just for the 3ds home theme of RCR will pass the codes out to my lady and kids at random times for little surprises for them
With 2 wiiu's and 4 3DS's in our household all the codes came in handy at home. Although I did end up having to get the kids a bigger SD card for their 3DS.
It kind of sucks that I paid full price for Freedom Planet and Retro City Rampage (on the Wii), and still paid a fair whack for Shantae and Affordable Space Adventures which had slight discounts on them around last Xmas, but I've still bought a Humble Bundle to help charity out.
Hopefully more people will now appreciate what an awesome game Freedom Planet is.
I'm interested to see what's next.
@FlameRunnerFast which code did you want? I already gave away most of them to my sister and a friend but I can ask if they used them or not
@YorkshireNed,
I think you didn't properly understood what I meant. I want to use my e-shop credit. I don't want to make use of any other payment systems!
So, if I paid the $13 now, do I just get the games currently available, or do I also get anything that's added in the future too?
@Henmii I dunno man, that's a LOT of really good game and charity to skip out on for a kinda lame reason.
OK, I got in on this. Already have Shantae on 3DS, so I'm giving the code away.
Good luck: B0LH4QJJ4QK57RHD
@MarioPhD Citizens of Earth IS Wii U OR 3DS, Nintendolife needs to edit this article.
@Spike6958 Just check your account later when the games are updated and the new game codes will be on your account.
Glad to see this bundle doing so well, especially with an entire week to go after the update.
@SildanXr There's a new humble bundle 2-3 times a week! Although this is only the second Nintendo one
@Henmii it takes literally 15 seconds and benefits a children's hospital. That's uh...quite a powerful bout of laziness you have there. I get that you already have eshop credit you want to use, but you can either buy the games for $130 on the eshop with eshop credit, or donate $10 to the children's hospital right now with any payment source and get a dozen games for free. Not really a hard sale here
@abbyhitter all humble bundles are for charity, i guess the writer assumed we knew.
I have always enjoyed humble bundle, I get some great PC game bundles from time to time. Really helps when a few games I want to be hit the bundle. For example the Firaxis Humble Bundle: I got tons of Sid Meier's titles and XCOM. And the current Nintendo bundle is worth it. You can't beat the prices for these titles.
@Indielink @henmii Yeah, paypal sucks when you're the seller getting their cut taken off you but when you're the buyer it's painless. I get your point about store credit but I've never had any store credit since they brought in the "pay exact price" option back in...2010 or whenever it was. This is a load of games for less than the price of a large pizza from a famous chain!
Wasn't there supposed to be an extra game announced today?
@Megal0maniac The new games will be added at 11:00 a.m. (Pacific time)
This is Nintendo's second go at Humble Bundle. We participated both times.
The thing I learned between the first and second bundle is that there's a slider at the bottom that controls how much you want to go to Nintendo - Charity - Tip. The default has the majority go to Nintendo and tip. I think I went with a 25%-50%-25%.
Regardless, the games are great for the price....even if you already have 1 or 2. The theme rocks!
@dkxcalibur argh, really? I didn't notice a slider. Is it too late to go back? I love Nintendo but they really don't need the lionshare of this
@CTMike I would imagine it's too late. But hey, you still participated and it's the thought that counts....plus charity still got a portion of you money.
More games were added:
Nano Assault EX (3DS)
Swords & Soldiers (Wii U)
Runbow (Wii U)
Full $13 pack for me! Darksiders looks a bit too dark/mature for my tastes, but the gameplay looks like fun, and that is what matters to me.
Ugh, they added Runbow, and I bought it back then when it was on sale for 10 :/
Purchased all. Now it's time go game!
Who would like Affordable Space Adventures? You do. You know who you are.
Here: B0L8DMHN22FG0PHC
@Nico07 Yeah, using the same language as used in the description of Shantae is misleading, for sure.
Anyone have an extra 3DS code for Citizens of Earth? I can give you Mighty Switch Force (3DS), Retro City Rampage (3DS), and/or Human Resource Machine (DRM Free/Steam). Let me know ASAP if interested.
(I apologize if this is against the Community Rules; feel free to delete this and redirect me to a more appropriate place to post if applicable. I saw some people giving away codes and figured that this was similar.)
@plug313 just any you have left over. Don't feel obligated to give your codes away if you don't want too.
@Einherjar Don't worry, and excuse the cold language, I can be blunt without realising it.
@russellohh and @Indielink,
My reason is safety. I think using e-shop credit is the safest for me. I always buy e-shop cards. I don't want to enter bank-account codes and stuff like that. Yeah, I am old-fashioned like that!
@Henmii if you drop an eShop card, you've lost it forever. Likewise, if you scratch it too hard, and can't read a number, it can be difficult to replace the card. With paypal or a credit card, you deny the charge if anything bad happens, and its refunded in seconds. In this case, you also save like $100. There's old fashioned, and then there's just being paranoid. Embrace the mid 1940s! Use your credit!
@C-Olimar Hey, no offense taken, not at all ^^
I asked a question, you delivered the answer. Its all good
To be honest, I find most of the games included in the bundle to be kinda hit and miss, and I'm having a hard time even GIVING the leftover codes away! Sheesh.
That aside, Shantae alone is worth the dollar and so is Freedom Planet. For those who don't have the 13 dollar games, I'd certainly recommend those as well.
Humble Bundle is a pretty great thing. Gamers get games cheap, they give the codes as gifts, and it benefits charity. It's a win-win for everyone involved.
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