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I was reading reviews about Indiana Jones and the Great Circlea new video game featuring an archeologist, a few days ago I found out Strange thread on Reddit. Humble Bundle, it seems, was offering the game for free to people who linked their Steam account to the store.
Great Circle it’s a new $70 AAA video game and I thought it was amazing. I followed the Reddit link but Humble had already pulled the list. But, according to posts on social media, some people managed to get the game and running for a few hours before disappearing from their Steam library.
Now, days later, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle not available in the Humble Bundle store. Searching for it on Google it also brings up two listings on the page—one for first editions and one for regular editions—but clicking on it redirects users to the Humble Bundle store. Indy is missing from a popular store and it’s unclear when, or if, he will return.
Humble Bundle is a charity-run digital store where players collect various items. Users collect items together, including books, comics, and games, and then “pay for what they want.” Part of what they pay they go to charity. It is a popular service and many famous companies sell their products on Humble. It’s a great place to find incredible deals on sports.
On Monday night, Wario64—an account on X that writes about video games—found out that Humble Bundle is offering a new Indiana Jones game for free. Like any other great sniffer, it alerted people. Between Wario64 and the Reddit thread, the crowd cheered on Indy for a few hours before Humble removed the keys.
Indiana Jones is FREE on Humble https://t.co/j9C0YKh5mf #trade pic.twitter.com/GKXCUDTWFG
– Wario64 (@Wario64) December 10, 2024
Humble Bundle did not return my request for comment and did not comment further on what happened. In a statement released to PC Gamer, it said solved all the keys on the game was given “due to a pricing error for the game, the game was incorrectly listed as ‘free.'”
This is a harsh reminder that finding a game in your Steam library does not mean you own the game. Steam doesn’t actually sell games, it sells licenses to games. The license can say whatever the company wants. Air made this clear in October when it changed what customers see when they buy something.
In order to comply with California’s newly passed laws against false advertising, digital marketing sites started telling their customers that they were. just buy a license at the point of sale. This was the case, but more information was put into the Steam EULA for over a decade. Now it’s forward.
