Humble Indie Bundle: name your price for DRM-free games for Android, Mac, Win, Lin

The latest Humble Indie Bundle has launched: "The Humble Bundle for Android 2" features five DRM-free Android games (they also play on Windows, Mac and GNU/Linux), available on a name-your-price basis. As of this writing, they've sold 65,000+ bundles, with about twelve and a half days left. When you set your price, you can also earmark some of the funds to two charities: the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Child's Play.

Five games—never-before-seen on Android—for your phones and tablets. We're bringing the hottest mobile entertainment to your Android devices. Pay-what-you-want to get Zen Bound 2, Canabalt, Cogs, and Avadon: The Black Fortress (tablets only). And if you pay more than the average price, you'll also get the vibrant, side-scrolling strategy game Swords & Soldiers.
Playing at your desktop? No problem. Buying the Humble Bundle for Android 2 also gets you Mac, Windows, and Linux versions of all the games! Customers will also receive digital audio for each game with an official soundtrack.
Pay what you want. If you bought these games separately, it would cost around $57. We are letting you set the price!

The Humble Bundle for Android 2 (pay what you want and help charity)

(Disclosure: I am the volunteer curator for a forthcoming Humble Ebook Bundle)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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forthcoming humble ebook bundle eh.. oho that should be interesting
Peter Warwick-Mahoney

Interestingly, Linux users are paying significantly more for the bundle.

Average purchase: $6.35
Average Windows: $5.73
Average Mac: $6.87
Average Linux: $9.66
- Church
  
  Makes sense, since Lin users are more likely to be developers themselves.
  
  I’m impressed that the Humble Bronies are topping the leader board again.
- corydodt
  
  They’ve done a lot of these bundles now. Linux users *always* pay more for the bundle. There are several prevailing theories why. My favorite is this: The Windows and Mac users are more likely to be kids, on their parents’ home computers. The Linux users tend to be techies with jobs. The techies have more money to spend.
  
  I paid $15 myself. (Linux user, but I’m playing the games on my phone.)
renke

as I’m a fan of RPGs Avadon sounds interesting. has anyone experience with it running on Linux? I’m not able to test it as the game’s homepage offers only Mac, iPad and Win demos.

thanks!
- SoItBegins
  
  I was one of the beta-testing team for Avadon. I can tell you from firsthand experience that the game is AWESOME if you like classic grid-and-turn RPGs. Go for it!
  
  Never tried running it on Linux, though.
- Marktech
  
  as I’m a fan of RPGs Avadon sounds interesting. has anyone experience with it running on Linux?
  
  It installed and ran seamlessly on 64-bit Linux. Not a fair test, because I don’t really do RPGs and my computer’s getting old and slow; but it worked perfectly as far as I could tell.
  
  Why not buy the bundle anyway? It’ll cost as little as you like, and you can always go back and increase your price if you think it’s worth it.
  - renke
    
    I didn’t say I’m too cheap to buy a fair price for software, I just wanted to get an “everything’s fine, it runs”.
    
    Thanks!
    
    PS weird to _pay_ for software, normally I purchase software-related services and/or donate…
TheKaz1969

picked up my bundle a few days ago, and I am impressed with the quality of these games. It is also nice that they let you tweak how much of the money goes to charity/devs/humble “tip”.
Cefeida

I always buy the bundles blindly, have never yet been disappointed. I just regret missing the first Android one- the phone I had then was too weak for the apps, and I already owned most of the games on my desktop.

Oh, and then there’s the charity stuff, that’s good, too ;)
- SoItBegins
  
  Yeah, even if you don’t like some of the listed games in the bundle, there’s always SOMETHING for you. I bought the Frozen Synapse bundle specifically for SpaceChem.
  
  Which, it goes without saying, was awesome.