Humble Choice For January 2024 Includes Marvel's Midnight Sun And 7 More Games For $12

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Start the year with a batch of excellent PC games that are yours to keep.

By Brendan Hesse on

The first Humble Choice games lineup of 2024 is now live, offering eight awesome PC games for subscribers to download and keep forever. Humble is starting the year strong, packing this month with tactical strategy games, Marvel superheroes, fast-paced action games, and story-focused adventures. There's even some bonus DLC included this month as well.

Marvel's Midnight Suns Digital Plus edition is this month's top pick. This turn-based tactics game is set in the Marvel universe and features a large roster of playable characters, including fan favorites like Spider-Man and Wolverine, alongside lesser-known heroes like Nico Minoru and Magik. The game comes from the strategy masterminds at Firaxis, the same studio behind the excellent XCOM series, so it's worth playing even if you're not a Marvel fan. In GameSpot's Marvel Midnight Suns review, writer Jordan Ramée scored the game 8/10, calling it a «rewardingly tactical experience, with a deckbuilding card system ensuring that randomness challenges the player, not frustrates them,» and praised the mission variety and large cast. The Digital Plus version includes 11 bonus character skins. Humble Choice members also get the Doctor Strange Defenders Skin DLC as a free bonus.

If Marvel's Midnight Suns isn't enough strategic card-slinging for you, there's also Roguebook--which, if you couldn't tell from the title, is a roguelike deckbuilding RPG. There are a lot of games like this out there, but Roguebook is notable for being co-created by