The new Humble Bundle contains 400 hours of the best RPGs ever made for $20

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Hey, can I borrow you for the rest of your life? Because the latest Humble Bundle(opens in new tab) is a collection of some of the greatest CRPGs in games history, but you might need to quit your job and retreat to the woods if you want to finish them before the mid-century.

Humble's RPG Legends bundle will net you Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 plus the Siege of Dragonspear expansion, Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights, and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. They're all in their modernised Enhanced Edition form (except Pathfinder, since that only came out last year), so you won't have to spend time tinkering with mods to get them working like I had to do back in the day. You kids have it easy.

We've named some of these games a few of the best RPGs of all time(opens in new tab), and for good reason. Baldur's Gate made Dungeons and Dragons cool(opens in new tab) again back in 1998, telling an epic fantasy story across two games and one expansion that started out with you trying (and failing) to whack rats in a warehouse and ended with you summoning demons and bargaining with gods. It defined Bioware and continues to define its genre: it'd probably be quicker to list the modern RPGs that don't take inspiration from Baldur's Gate than the ones that do.

Planescape(opens in new tab), on the other hand, was a journey to the centre of the self that preferred to ask questions about mortality, ideology, and belief. Where Baldur's Gate was extroverted and operatic, Planescape: Torment was inward-looking and reflective. It's beautifully written, and thank god for that, because the game is like 75% reading. No wonder that the creators of Disco Elysium—currently occupying PCG's number one spot on our top 100(opens in new