June is a month for celebrating great narratives in video games. It’s also a great time to celebrate reading in general. Humble Bundle wants to help you do both of those things by offering some fantastic, narrative-driven games for next to nothing. For the next couple of weeks, you can pay what you want to unlock Her Story, Read Only Memories, and Cibele (all games are unlocked through Steam). Her Story is the star of the show here, and Cibele looks to be an embarrassingly honest and compelling commentary on the romantic relationships we build through our online games. Read Only Memories looks like some campy, pixelated, cyberpunk goodness.
If you pay more than the average, which is currently $4.15, you also unlock Broken Age, 80 Days, and parts 1 and 2 of Sorcery! . As a huge fan of Steve Jackson games, I’m so excited to play the latter. Paying $10 or more will also grant you Shadowrun: Hong Kong – Extended Edition . A colleague of mine is a huge Shadowrun fan and wasn’t impressed with the writing in Hong Kong , but you may enjoy it. Your contribution is for a good cause, and a portion of your payment will support Worldreader, an organization that seeks to empower families by teaching them to read and providing them with digital books.