If you're a gamer, the Humble Bundles are always a treat. Every time we get bored of our games, Humble Bundle releases a handful of awesome games with an unbeatable pay-what-you-want price. This time, they're releasing five (that's right, five!) Frozenbyte games. As if that's not awesome enough, the Humble Bundle allows you to split your payment in a variety of ways, choosing how much you want to give to Frozenbyte, or if you want to donate the whole sum to charity.



The awesomeness doesn't stop there, though. The Humble Bundle lets you choose how to play in a variety of ways -- you can download each game for Mac, Windows, and Linux via direct link or bit torrent, and then you can get keys for each game for Steam, Desura, and OnLive. Finally, once you've downloaded the available games, you'll forget all about the one that's still in development (in this case, Splot) and when it's released, you'll have a whole new game to play. It's like Christmas for computer games.

So what'd we get for our money?

1. Trine

This awesome physics-based side-scroller just so happens to be completely stunning. In it, you play as three characters with completely different skill sets. The knight can bash things around (forming bridges out of discarded boxes and such) and fend off legions of enemies with his shield, the thief can shoot buttons from a distance and grapple her way to safety, and the wizard can magically levitate things and create bridges out of magical star dust and friendship (plus, he's a ladies' man!).

The gameplay's completely unique and the style's completely gorgeous. Frankly, this game alone would be worth the purchase price -- if there even was one.

How do sorcerers look at the stars? Through spellascopes.

2. Shadowgrounds

Shadowgrounds is a top-down survival thriller stylized enough to be a Blizzard game. At 11 levels, it's admittedly short, but what it lacks in length it makes up for with creepy sound effects, a critically acclaimed soundtrack, and a flamethrower. It's often dark corriders are still scary, even years after the game's been released. We even love the Zerg-looking enemies. 

Love blowing them up, that is.

3. Survivor

Survivor is a spin-off of Shadowgrounds and it shows. It has the same stylized top-down graphics, the same big guns, and the same addicting gameplay. However, Survivor also comes with bigger explosions, three characters, and more polish. On top of all that, Survivor ditches the plot (almost all together) so you can focus on slaying aliens before they completely infest Jupiter's moon. Who needs story?

And here's a look at what else we're getting:

4. Jack Claw

Jack Claw is a game that Frozenbyte worked on and never finished. If you're an aspiring game dev with a Windows machine and an Xbox Controller, Frozenbyte gives you the game's source code with every purchase. This alone will almost certainly be the most beneficial addition to some users...and worthless to others.

5. Splot

Splot is a game currently being developed by Frozenbyte. Not a lot is known about it (what is known can be found here), but from the few screens we've seen, we can't wait to play it.

So what are you waiting for? Go throw a tenner (or more) at these guys and help out charity. Game on! 

Buy them here!