Indie Royale launches Lightning Packs

The Indie Royale game bundle website is launching a promotional initiative that they are calling “lightning packs”. They describe these as “more focused, ‘niche’ collections of PC games with a shorter time-limit to buy.”

The first offering, the Serious Sam Lightning Pack, is available to buy now, with a starting price of $2.99 and a total of six Serious Sam-themed games, including four new indie-developed games riffing on Croteam’s gonzo FPS franchise, plus the two original games in the series.

Serious Sam’s spinoffs were commissioned by rogue micropublisher Devolver Digital and franchise creator Croteam around the launch of Serious Sam 3: BFE.

Serious Sam: The Random Encounter is available on PC as a DRM-free download, on Steam, and on Desura. The game falls into the RPG genre, developed Vlambeer (Super Crate Box, Ridiculous Fishing). Gameplay is a hybrid of turn-based battles with real-time, run and gun offense and defence.

Serious Sam Double D is available on PC as a DRM-free download, on Steam, and on Desura. It is a hand drawn, side-scrolling shooter featuring over-the-top gameplay and chaotic action from arcade-loving indie Mommy’s Best Games (Weapon Of Choice, Explosionade).

Making a debut on PC in this Lightning Pack is a DRM-free download and Desura PC version of Serious Sam: Kamikaze Attack. Developer Be-Rad Entertainment’s offering (originally available only on smartphones) is an Canabalt-style action-platformer where players control the Headless Kamikaze enemy, striving to accomplish the bad guy’s dream of blowing up the vile Serious Sam on every level.

Another world exclusive Indie Royale debut, Serious Sam: The Greek Encounter, is an 8-bit, top-down “demake” of Serious Sam, specially commissioned by Team Fortress Arcade and Halo/DJ Hero demake author Eric Ruth. It’s available for PC as a DRM-free download and on Desura, and sees Serious Sam in ancient Greece battling the relentless hordes of Mental’s army in an all-new retro 8-bit adventure.

Finally, Croteam, the progenitors of the Serious Sam franchise, are offering the original Serious Sam: The First Encounter and Serious Sam: The Second Encounter games for PC, redeemable on Steam.

The new Lightning Packs will run for just 100 hours (80 hours remaining at the time of publication), under the same pricing model as before: the price will automatically increase as more people buy the pack. Those generous buyers who pay more than the current minimum can decrease the price for other purchasers.