Humble Bundle is a website that regularly offers discounts on popular games, ebooks, software solutions, and other content.
Popular games and other content are bundled together and sold at a fraction of the price, often just a few dollars, and sale proceeds go to charity.
For some purchases, you can actually choose how much of your sale goes to charity and how much goes to the game developers or Humble Bundle itself.
Also, you usually have flexibility in how much you pay. For example, I bought a bunch of programming books on Humble Bundle at the $5 tier, but if I was willing to pay more, I would have gotten access to the full bundle, which included more books.
Humble Bundle has gotten extremely popular, as you can find amazing discounts and save hundreds of dollars compared to the official prices that you would pay when buying each game or software separately.
However, as its popularity grew, so did the number of copycats. There are now other sites like Humble Bundle which work with a similar “pay what you want” model and which may include content and offerings that you can’t find on Humble Bundle itself.
This guide will go over the best Humble Bundle alternatives for finding discounted game, book, and software bundles.
The short version: The best alternatives to Humble Bundle are Fanatical and IndieGala, especially for gaming but also for other types of digital assets. However, I include 12 alternatives in this list in total, so read on for all of them!
Criteria for Inclusion
So, which criteria did I use to decide which Humble Bundle alternatives go in this list?
There are several things that I looked at.
The first is the type of content available. The best sites have a wide range of content, including not only games but also audiobooks, ebooks, software downloads, and more.
However, I did include some sites that only focus on specific types of digital content, like games. That’s because, depending on what you are looking for, you may not be interested in other types of content.
Price range is another thing I considered. Most of the sites here either use a “pay what you want” model, allowing you to decide how much you will spend, or offer incredibly cheap prices and amazing discounts.
I did try to include sites that allow you to support charitable causes while purchasing bundles, but most of them don’t focus as heavily on charity as Humble Bundle.
Supporting charity is always a good thing, but these sites need to pay their bills as well, and not all of them can afford to donate all or even part of the sale proceeds to charity, especially when prices are already low.
Another thing I considered was the overall user experience. How easy is it to navigate the site and find what you are looking for?
With that said, let’s get into the list.
12 Sites Like Humble Bundle
1. Fanatical
The first site like Humble Bundle on our list is Fanatical.com, which offers a wide variety of games on the cheap.
It has games in many genres and categories, including action, sports, anime, racing, multiplayer and many others. There are also games for many platforms, like Steam, Linux, and even VR-compatible games.
For the cheapest games, you’ll want to head to the Games Under $5 category, where you can often find games below $5 and even below $2. Sales are time-limited, so check back to see which games are currently on sale for just a few dollars.
Both single games and bundles are available. Buying bundles will help you save more money, but make sure you are actually interested in the games in a bundle – don’t buy it just because it’s more for less if you won’t end up using those games.
While Fanatical focuses primarily on games, it does offer additional content as well in the “More Than Just Games” section. There, you can find bundles of software tools, ebooks, music audio, and more.
From time to time, Fanatical partners with charity gaming events or sells bundles to support charities.
2. IndieGala
Next on our list is IndieGala, which offers a nice selection of games and game bundles from different genres and play styles on sale. It also offers anime collections and other digital content.
IndieGala even offers freebies from time to time. Check out the Freebies page to see if there are any free games on offer at the moment.
By joining the IndieGala Gameplay Giveaway, you can earn free Steam keys or free digital currency to use on the IndieGala store.
Downloading the IndieGala game client, while not required, will help you play freebies and other games from IndieGala with ease.
Sales on IndieGala go to support various charities, such as Save the Children. As IndieGala is an Italian company, one of the charities it supports is the Italian Red Cross.
3. Indie Game Bundles
Indie Game Bundles is another good alternative to Humble Bundle if you are looking for cheap game bundles. It often sells “pay what you want” bundles that allow you to save hundreds of dollars or bundles with different tiers depending on how much you are willing to pay.
There is also a section with free games, Steam keys, and other digital content. In addition, there is a giveaway section where developers sometimes give away free or heavily discounted games.
In addition to games, you can find ebooks, comics, and software bundles. However, the primary focus of Indie Game Bundles is on games – it is in the name, after all.
One thing I did like about Indie Game Bundles is that it has an elearning section, where you can find bundles and sales of educational content at heavily discounted rates. I’ve found courses that teach you foreign languages, how to use Photoshop, how to code and program, and more!
The elearning section seems to get around 1–2 updates a month, more or less.
If you’d like to find bundles that go towards supporting charity, check out the charity tag on Indie Game Bundles.
4. Itch.io
Itch.io is a site where developers can upload games for free or at discounted rates.
For example, browse the $5 or Less category to find all games that are selling for five bucks. For freebies, check out the Free Games section, where you can find free games in different genres.
Itch.io is a good alternative to Humble Bundle because in addition to these games, you can also purchase physical games, books, albums/soundtracks, and both general and gaming software solutions and tools.
Just browse the left-hand menu to find what you are looking for.
A good thing about Itch.io is that developers decide how much of the sale proceeds (if they decide to sell a product instead of giving it for free) will go to them and how much will go to Itch.io, as per Itch.io’s revenue share model.
In other words, that means that when you buy a game there, you can be sure that the developer is getting exactly what they feel they are worth.
5. Groupees
Groupees is a digital bundle marketplace for all kinds of downloadable assets. It focuses not only on games but also on music, elearning courses, and software products.
Its focus is on benefiting climate change charities, so if climate change is something that you care about, it’s a great alternative to Humble Bundle.
Groupees’ “build a bundle” model is somewhat similar to Humble Bundle’s model. However, it gives you more flexibility.
Humble Bundle’s model often relies on allowing you to choose from several tiers. For example, there might be a $1 or more, $5 or more, and $18 or more tier, with each tier providing you a selected number of books, games, software tools, etc. – but you might not get to pick which books go in each tier.
On Groupees, you can build your own bundle by selecting the games, books, or other downloadable content you want to add to your bundle. This will determine the price – the more you select, the more you will have to pay – but it gives you more control, as you can skip assets you might not want and add those you do want.
It is also easy to determine how much you will pay, because each asset has a price, such as $1 or $3. So, you can choose the cheaper ones to make your final bundle price cheaper as well.
To find an asset you want, use the search bar at the top of the page or browse trending bundles. You can also browse through all the bundles currently on offer.
I do wish that Groupees had an easier way to find specific kinds of digital assets. All of the asset types are grouped together, whether they are ebooks, audiobooks, software, or games.
While each asset type has its own icon, it would have been better if there were separate sections for different asset types.
6. Epic Bundle
Next on our list of Humble Bundle alternatives is Epic Bundle. It actually curates bundles from many sites, including Humble Bundle but other sites as well.
Therefore, compared to Humble Bundle, you will find a wider range of the best games for sale.
I also like how you can search for games in alphabetical order and see whether they are included in a bundle somewhere on the internet, whether on Humble Bundle or elsewhere. Go to the Games in Bundle page; this tool is very helpful if you have a specific game in mind and want to know whether you can get it for cheap.
Epic Bundles also maintains a list of games that are on sale and vouchers you can use on Steam and other platforms. Again, this list is carefully curated, and since it is updated every hour, I recommend checking back to snatch up the best game deals on the internet.
Often, you can find games or game bundles for as low as $1 each!
If you don’t have anything to spend, you can check out the giveaways page, where you will find links to free games currently being given away by Epic Bundle.
Finally, I recommend checking out the Bundle Countdown page, where you can find time-limited bundles that you can currently grab. Again, these bundles are curated from all over the internet, so you will find the best deals here.
7. Mighty Deals
Mighty Deals also has a nice selection of software bundles that you can get for cheap. It seems mostly geared towards photographers, graphic designers, and so on, but you can also find ebooks and other things.
There are icons, fonts, logos, and photography software – I saw one software tool that turns photos into vectors selling for just five bucks – but there is also a lot more.
For example, there are ebooks, resources for teachers, and even VPNs selling for cheap. Mighty Deals has an AI tool that will help you find the specific bundle or deal that fits your needs.
Overall, if you are into photography or graphic design, this is the best Humble Bundle alternative for you since the majority of products center around that theme.
8. StackSocial
StackSocial is a site that curates the best tech deals on the web, updated every single day. From actual physical products on sale (such as laptops and other tech products) to software solutions and discounted lifetime memberships on selected sites, you can find a lot on StackSocial.
The Bundles page is where you can find hundreds of bundles for sale – as of this writing, there are over 800 bundles listed. Bundles include all kinds of products, such as software tools like Microsoft Office, elearning and training courses, membership deals, and more.
These bundles aren’t usually going for a few dollars – they are usually a bit more than that. Nevertheless, you can typically save hundreds of dollars by purchasing through StackSocial, as the items are heavily discounted compared to the official prices.
People can leave reviews for things they purchased on StackSocial, allowing you to see whether other people felt the price was worth it.
Freebies and giveaways are available on the site as well. A giveaway might be a chance to win a prize for signing up or joining a program; there are sweepstakes, raffles, and other cool giveaways you can sign up for.
Meanwhile, the freebies are things that you can download for free right away or after completing a short task like sharing something on social media. These aren’t sweepstakes that only give you a chance of winning something but free courses and software that you are guaranteed to get.
You can often find highly valuable training courses that typically cost hundreds of dollars and are now free to download. Some of the topics covered by those courses include video editing, technical drawing, Python, artificial intelligence, and more.
In addition to courses, you can find other freebies. I saw one freebie offering two million free stock photos for free.
When you buy something from StackSocial, you can usually return it within 30 days (this goes for physical products). If you purchased a digital code that you did not yet claim (you did not click on it to reveal the code), such as a software license code, you can also return it for store credit within 30 days.
See more information about returns here.
9. StoryBundle
StoryBundle is one of the best Humble Bundle alternatives for indie books. The site offers bundles of six to nine popular indie books each, with each bundle being available for a limited time only.
You get to decide how much you pay per bundle, as per its “pay what you want” model. You can always pay a bit more to reward the authors, but it is not required.
In addition, StoryBundle has several charities it supports. Donating to charity is optional, but if you do, all you have to do is select one of the available charities from the list, and StoryBundle will give that charity 10% of the sale proceeds.
It doesn’t seem like you can decide to give more than 10% to charity, though.
There are often bonus books in a bundle, but to get them, you might have to meet a certain payment threshold. This could be a set price or a moving average of how much people are paying for the bundle.
For example, if people are paying $7 for the bundle on average, you won’t get the bonus books if you only decide to pay $5. However, that $7 mark may change; if more people start paying less, it could go down.
For example, there is currently a bundle being sold on the site that contains four books.
However, if you pay at least $20 for this bundle, you will unlock nine bonus books – 13 books in total. That’s a pretty amazing deal – less than $1 per book!
StoryBundle supports payments via credit or debit card, PayPal, and Amazon Payments.
It also allows you to give people gift cards for StoryBundle. Gift cards are digital codes that people can redeem for bundles on StoryBundle.
They never expire, and they work for bonuses too.
10. Daily Indie Game
Daily Indie Game is a website that provides fantastic gaming bundles every day. For example, there is currently a bundle listed on the site that provides nine Steam games for just $0.49.
Most of the bundles seem to provide nine Steam titles each, in fact. They typically go for $0.49, $0.99, $1.49, or $1.99, which are all pretty good deals.
You can also earn free gems on Daily Indie Game by doing activities such as logging into your account. You can then use these gems to get free Steam keys or enter giveaways.
I also recommend browsing the Staff Picks and What to Play sections, where you can find popular and recommended games, often at 90% off or more.
11. uCrate
uCrate is a good alternative to Humble Bundle’s monthly subscription, as it works similarly. If you didn’t like the games you got with your Humble Bundle subscription, you might enjoy uCrate’s selection better.
How does it work? You sign up for a monthly subscription – there are several plans to choose from – and get monthly bundles of 10 curated games delivered to you digitally.
This includes an element of surprise, as you never know which games you are going to get, which can be quite exciting!
The games are hand-picked by experts, so you know you will be getting good games.
Don’t worry, though. If you are a member of uCrate, you can also buy one-time bundles – called boosts. To get a boost, you must make a one-time purchase, which is separate from your monthly subscription, and you will get one, five, or 10 games, depending on the boost you purchased.
The boosts are also random, though, so you can’t pick which games you will get.
It’s an intriguing idea; getting 10 new games a month is plenty, even if you are an avid gamer. In the long run, you will end up saving a lot of money.
You can browse past “crates” (the monthly bundles) on the site to see the types of games you will get and to ensure that uCrate is for you.
12. Green Man Gaming
Finally, we have Green Man Gaming, an online retailer that sells computer games for incredibly cheap.
You can find plenty of Steam games and other games at 10-20% off and sometimes even as high as 80-90% off. Occasionally, the site offers bundles at discounted rates.
It’s been around since 2009, so it is completely legitimate. In fact, it’s an official retailer for every game it sells on the site, so it’s completely authorized to sell them.
It’s a good addition to have when you can’t find the game you want on Humble Bundle, as you may find it on Green Man Gaming.
Conclusion
We have seen various Humble Bundle alternatives over the years but only a few have tasted success. In fact, it takes a lot to be successful – you need to offer the right games in your bundles and work with publishers and developers to be able to offer such discounted rates while still being profitable.
While Fanatical and IndieGala are my top choices, you may have better luck finding things you like on some of the other alternatives I listed. I recommend signing up for their newsletters (if available) so you can get notified of new deals as they come out and not miss out on amazing bundles.
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