January Humble Choice Bundles Spidersaurs With Sonic Frontiers
The latest monthly bundle from Humble includes WayForward's run-and-gun shooter alongside Sega's open-zone experiment and classic Lara Croft.
WayForward has announced that its run-and-gun action title Spidersaurs is featured in the January Humble Choice bundle alongside Sonic Frontiers and Tomb Raider IV to VI Remastered. According to the listing on the Humble Store, the subscription service is offering these titles as part of its monthly rotation.
For those who missed it during its initial release, Spidersaurs is essentially a Saturday morning cartoon fused with the DNA of Contra. It makes sense, considering WayForward is the studio behind Contra 4. The game involves fighting genetically engineered dinosaur-spider hybrids, which is a problem that science probably should have seen coming.
A Mix of Eras
The inclusion of Sonic Frontiers brings Sega's 2022 "open-zone" experiment to the bundle. This was the title that finally decided Sonic needed a skill tree and vast, empty fields to run through. It is a distinct departure from the classic side-scrolling formula, but it found a dedicated audience willing to overlook the occasional technical hiccup for the sensation of speed.
On the preservation front, Tomb Raider IV to VI Remastered is the heavy hitter here. This collection updates The Last Revelation, Chronicles, and the notoriously broken The Angel of Darkness. Getting the original PC port of Angel of Darkness to run on modern Windows usually requires a hex editor and a prayer, so a functional remaster is a welcome convenience.
Charitable Contributions
The Humble Store post notes that the community has contributed over $275,000,000 to charity since the company began in 2010. While the storefront has changed ownership over the years, it is now a brand of IGN Entertainment, the charity component remains a central part of the business model.
For collectors, digital bundles like this are a double-edged sword. They are an affordable way to play titles like Spidersaurs without hunting down physical copies, but they do nothing to stop the slow rot of digital licensing. Still, if you want to shoot spider-dinosaurs without paying full price, this is currently the most efficient way to do it.
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