Humble Bundle 3 Available – 5 Great Games, Your Price

While Valve’s Steam platform has become famous for offering regular sales of great games at sometimes ridiculous prices, the Humble Bundle, in the sort time it’s been around, has been giving both indie games some amazing exposure and gamers a right to choose the price they want to pay. It’s not often a deal like this rolls around, to be sure.

Further, all of the games offered are available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, are DRM-free, and if you so choose, some of what you pay can go straight to charity. Oh, and, if the games are available there, you also receive codes to add any of the games to your Steam and Desura accounts, making the games accessible anywhere you have either of these clients installed.

The latest Humble Bundle becomes the third iteration, and contains five indie titles that have proven themselves to be great titles; most having won multiple awards. These include Crayon Physics Deluxe, a game that allows you to draw with a virtual crayon and manipulate your drawing, Cogs, a steampunk-styled puzzler reminiscent of Pipe Dream, VVVVVV, an old-school inspired platformer that’ll do well to challenge anyone, Hammerfight, a 2D game heavily relying on physics to do battle, and And Yet It Moves, another platformer that could turn what you know about puzzle games upside-down.

As always, gamers are free to choose the amount of money they’d like to pay, and from that, can customize where they want the money to go; the developers, EFF and Child’s Play, and also the folks who make the Humble Bundle happen.

In the first 24 hours of this deal becoming available, it’s pulled in nearly $600,000 across 121,000 purchases. Of these, the average purchase price was $4.80, though as has become the norm, the averages-per-OS change quite a bit. The average price paid by Windows users is $3.86, while OS X users paid an average of $6.42. Linux users took the cake with an average price paid of $11.08. Could it be any more obvious who wants games for their respective OS the most?

I already own most of these games, but plan to get the bundle for Cogs and also to be able to replay the others under Linux. Are you in?