If you missed out on this year’s Steam summer sale, there are still opportunities to grab great games on the cheap. 2K has paired up with Humble for a 2026 ‘Megahits’ bundle that offers 15 games for $15. I’d quibble with that title slightly, but there are numerous must-haves for your Steam library in this bundle, plus one of my personal all-time favourite shooters.
But let’s start with the three headline games, which are Risk of Rain 2, Borderlands 3, and Mafia 2. Risk of Rain 2 is the one game from this bundle that I haven’t personally played. But Wes Fenlon gave it a very respectable score of 84 in our Risk of Rain 2 review, and there’s no question that it’s a monstrously popular game.
Borderlands 3 is generally regarded as the weakest entry in the series. Yet while I found its tone grating at times, I enjoyed blasting around its multiple planets with my billions of guns. As for Mafia 2, I don’t think it’s as strong as the original (or its 2021 remake). But it’s still a decent crime caper, well worth running through at least once.
The best games in this bundle, though, are XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Homeworld: Remastered Collection, and Bioshock Infinite. XCOM, of course, brilliantly rebooted Julian Gollop’s tactical strategy game about defending the Earth from alien invasion. AS it happens, Gollop’s XCOM: UFO Defence is included too, and is a superb game in its own right. These days, though, I’d recommend playing Firaxis’ version first as it’s better at showing you the ropes.
Homeworld and its sequel are both beautiful, unique RTS games, and the remaster does a fine job of polishing them up. As for Bioshock Infinite, I’ve waxed and waned on it over the years. But while it disappears up its own dimensional rift sometimes, it’s still a rollicking FPS adventure.
Also included in the Bundle is Tales from The Borderlands, one of the better latter-day Telltale efforts, The Quarry, which is basically Until Dawn but slightly worse, ye olde tactical shooters Hidden and Dangerous 1 and 2, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour, Tribes of Midgard, and The Darkness 2.
Finally, there’s the sickos’ pick, Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition. People Can Fly’s foul-mouthed, anarchic FPS is genuinely one of my favourite games. Its skillshot system is enormous fun to mess around with, and while it presents as being dumb as rocks, its sci-fi story is surprisingly inventive and delivers some spectacular set-pieces. I’d love to see Bulletstorm get a sequel, even though it’ll never happen because the original sold so poorly.
All in all, a mixture of stone-cold classics and quite good sequels and successors—with a combined value of $465. The minimum you can pay is $15—though you can pay more if you choose—with a portion of your payment going to Covenant House, a charity that provides aid to homeless and trafficked young people across North and South America.
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