Indie developer Necrosoft Games has partnered with hundreds of other creators to launch a new fundraising bundle on gaming platform itch.io. The Bundle for Ukraine contains 991 games for a minimum donation of $10 / about £7.60 / AU$ 13.70, with all proceeds going to two organizations aiding the humanitarian effort in Ukraine.
The bundle includes several highly acclaimed indie titles, including time-stopping shooter Superhot, narratively-charged platformer Celeste, heartfelt A Short Hike, noir adventure Backbone, surreal puzzler Baba Is You, couch co-op shooter Towerfall Ascension, and roguelike Gonner.
It also packs many digital tabletop games, including solo journaling RPG The Wretched, queer empowering role-playing game Thirsty Sword Lesbians, and The Estate adventure collection for heroic rodent RPG Mausritter.
That’s only a slim selection of the hundreds of games included, from massive indie darlings to smaller titles from lesser-known developers.
You can grab the games for a minimum donation of $10. According to the bundle’s organizers, that’s a saving of 99% off the $6,544 the games would collectively cost at retail, but they “highly urge you to pay above the minimum if you can afford to do so”.
All money raised will be donated to International Medical Corps, a global non-profit that’s providing emergency medical services to Ukraine, and Voices of Children, a foundation that has been providing psychological support to children affected by Ukraine’s armed conflict since 2015.
As of press time, the Bundle for Ukraine has raised over $437,000 dollars, roughly 44% of its $1,000,000 goal, after being live for less than 24 hours. The average donation is currently $15.00 while the top contribution is a massive $1,536.00. The
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