Humble Bundle Bungles Indiana Jones Edition Briefly Offers $70 Free Game

I’ve been reading reviews Indiana Jones and the Great Circlenew video game featuring a famous archeologist days ago when I noticed weird thread on reddit. It appears that Humble Bundle was giving away the game for free to people who linked their Steam account to the storefront.

Great circle It’s a brand new flagship AAA game for $70, and I thought it was weird. I followed the Reddit link, but Humble had already pulled the listing. However, according to social media posts, some people were able to get the game and run it a few hours ago it disappeared from their Steam library.

Now, days later, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle still missing from the Humble Bundle store. Searches it on Google returns two listings on the site, one for the premium version and one for the regular edition, but redirecting users to the Humble Bundle storefront.Indy is missing from the popular store, and it’s unclear when or if it will return.

Humble Bundle is a popular digital storefront where gamers bundle together items, including books, comics, and games, and then “pay what they want.” goes to charity. It’s a popular service and many major companies sell their products on Humble.It’s a great place to get incredible deals on games.

On Monday night, Wario64, an account that posts about video game deals, noticed that Humble Bundle was giving away a new Indiana Jones game for free group of people got to enjoy Indy for a few hours before Humble canceled the keys.

Indiana Jones is FREE on Humble https://t.co/j9C0YKh5mf #ad: pic.twitter.com/GKXCUDTWFG

— Wario64 (@Wario64) December 10, 2024

Humble Bundle didn’t return my request for comment and didn’t say much about what happened, it said in a statement to PC Gamer revoked all keys for a game that was given “Due to an error in the pricing for this game, the game was incorrectly listed as ‘free’.”

This is a rude reminder that having a game in your Steam library doesn’t mean you own the game. Steam doesn’t actually sell games, it sells game licenses. The license can pretty much say whatever the company wants. Steam made this crystal clear in October when it changed what customers see when they buy something.

In order to comply with California’s newly enacted anti-false advertising laws, the digital storefront began informing its customers that they are only by obtaining a license at the point of sale. It’s always been there, but the details were buried in the Steam EULA for over a decade. Now it’s out.