Humble Bundle Reviews 2,118

TrustScore 2 out of 5

2.1

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Review summary

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Considering 101 reviews, most reviewers were unhappy with their experience overall. Many customers expressed dissatisfaction with the products, frequently encountering issues such as "keys are temporarily exhausted" for items they had already paid for, and some even reported that purchased keys were later removed or had expiration dates added without notification. Reviewers also found the customer service to be unhelpful or non-existent, with long response times, generic replies, or tickets being ignored. People also reported problems with payment, including being double-charged, unexpected subscription charges, and declined payments despite using valid methods. Additionally, many felt that the prices were no longer as competitive as they used to be, and some expressed concerns about pricing and value.

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Clients share negative opinions on product, frequently reporting issues with game keys. Many reviewers state... See more

Customer service

Consumers find customer service to be negative, with many reporting it as non-existent, slow, and unhelpful.... See more

Payment

People report negative experiences with payment. Many customers express frustration over unexpected charges,... See more

Price

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Response time

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Reviews shaping this summary

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Formerly great, but now giving out keys to second sites, which are out of stock. Support hasn´t answered yet (10 days, 7 workdays) . Based in USA they can probably ignore consumers rights. Maybe... See more

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

It used to be great. But ever since IGN bought it the quality kept getting worse and worse... First the quality of bundles reduced, then they added fodder to it. And the support used to be nice but w... See more

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Used to have a nice rhythm. Reminder email about choice, I check, I decided to pause, or not. Then the reminder emails stopped and two months in a row I've been caught out with the payment. Not say... See more

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

I mostly like Humble Bundle, but I really hate getting a message that says that 'Keys are temporarily exhausted for this product'. Had it been a few games then I guess it would've been somewhat o... See more


Company details

  1. Hobby Store
  2. Book Store
  3. Gaming service Provider

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Humble Bundle sells games, ebooks, software, and other digital content. Our mission is to support charity while providing awesome content to customers at great prices. We launched in 2010 with a single two-week Humble Indie Bundle, but we have humbly grown into a store full of games and bundles, a gaming membership service, a game publisher, and more.


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2.1

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TrustScore 2 out of 5

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Poor Quality Games Mostly

I took out the Humble Choice subscription monthly membership, the games offered every month were mostly very low quality games, you do get the odd gem, but overall, very poor value.

Not very trustworthy, they hide behind helping charities, but a quite dishonest company, who are really only out to help themselves financially, all the while pretending to be charitable.

On top of all of this, I cannot claim any cashback for any purchases or lodge any cashback claims for purchases through them, although the cashback site accepts this retailer, obviously I am on some type of illegal black list, maybe because I left this negative review, which is classed as retribution and is unlawful, this just goes to shows how dishonest this company really is!

12 July 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

“A member of our support team needs to…

“A member of our support team needs to verify the information and will complete the order as soon as it is resolved.

During this time, the order may show as pending on your statement, but we will not complete the charge to your bank or credit card until we figure things out.”

I’ve ordered many things from this site and now all of a sudden I get this? Ridiculous. Time to take my money elsewhere

order ID: XJM9W6CA52UU9

13 September 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Avoid

bought an app, called "gamebook adventures 2" on this website. I selected the android platform. when the download finished, there was no .apk file but a folder with a few different things in it. this has happened once before with this website. when i emailed them twice to ask for the apk file and asking what it was that id downloaded/paid for, i received a reply, then the person didnt bother to get back to me. i emailed again with no response

29 August 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Not reliable

Not reliable. Fails to generate key and so far (days later) I have no idea how to get my money back from their "support" team. Very poor service. Selection is mediocre at best. Support charity directly rather than throwing money at these goons

27 August 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Amazing service

Amazing service, i asked for a refund for a game i bought and within two minutes they replied and refunded my game.

26 August 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Great service with a moral problem

I am a regular customer of humble bundle and i think their bundles are great, i have never had any issues with redeeming the bundles i have bought. I am also a choice subscriber which i find is great value. I do however have a problem with the way they default the donation on charity bundles to only 5% of the proceeds going to charity. You can manually adjust this so that 80% of proceeds go to charity. If you are reading this and thinking about buying a charity bundle make sure to press the adjust donation button under checkout and use custom amount so that the money actually goes to charity. I bet a lot of new customers don't know about this and a lot more money could go to charity if it was more obvious they could donate more of their bundle money.

2 August 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Charged me twice and no refund

I was trying to buy 1 item from Humblebundle and whenever I tried. It returned Order Canceled and refunded me. However, I've tried 2 more times and then It successfully charged me and then returned Order Cancelled because we can sell limited amout of this item etc. I've contacted with my bank and they said the payment went through to humblebundle. When I wrote this, the support has returned me with predefined answer and didn't do anything. I still want my refund!

15 July 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Have been supporting Humble Bundle for…

Have been supporting Humble Bundle for many years but now they are blocking me from buying a bundle I want. "Order cancelled" it says and there is no way to fix it. Their support replies on average in 14 days (!) and the bundle finishes soon. There are also constant problems with keys not getting restocked quick enough. Such a shame how IGN messed up a great initiative.

12 July 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Scammed out of keys

After purchase they changed the terms unilaterally for keys purchased from them. in the onslaught of spam email, in no minor way from them, I missed an email saying that a key from a bundle would expire if I didn't redeem it soon. This wasn't stated at the time of purchase but was added later.
They also don't advertise these things so you should double and triple check any purchase with them.
Additionally, they sell bundles with keys they don't have stock for so you may never get your games.
Real scummy business practices, they hide behind charities but are still a business owned by IGN.
When confronted about these issues they say they can't compensate or do anything about it and are sorry that I don't read every spam email I get, and blame me for not redeeming all of my keys the second I purchase them, even though none of this is informed in any clear way when purchasing from them.

5 July 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Terrible experience

Terrible experience. They repeatedly sold me games they did not have steam keys for. Sometimes you have to wait many months to receive what you have bought. Customer service can also take a month to respond. If you have any issues there is nobody that can help you. I recommend everybody to avoid this site, until they get better.

21 June 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

My account is disabled

On June 7, my account was banned. There was no reason for this. As I understand it, this was allegedly related to fraud with the referral system. But I've never done anything like that. I regularly bought bundles and brought 20 new members to the site. But one day I was simply blocked. As a result, I lost all the money for referrals, and some non-activated keys in the bundle. Support has not responded for almost 20 days

7 June 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Very disappointing customer service

Have used Humble Bundle for a long time- extreme drop in recent quality. I purchased a game for a friend's birthday 3 weeks ago. The purchase page did not have a key to use- I have checked and rechecked almost daily. I contacted Humble Bundle support and have not yet received a response- and calling their number tells you to submit a ticket. Very disappointed to have spent over 60 dollars on something I cannot even give my friend on time for his birthday.

12 June 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Too bad I can’t give a zero

Too bad I can’t give a zero. Customer service is horrible. No response even when you call them, it just goes into computer mode. Bought a package for son but could not access anything. Once they get the money they are gone. It’s a total scam. Stay away and save your money!!!

22 May 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Very bad experience with the store

Very bad experience with ordering supposedly discounted games from the store.

First I was forced to verify a phone number by SMS, then the Paypal payment was blocked anyways to be manually verified by support. No VPN or anything else fishy. I even successfully paid for Humble Choice shortly before placing this order from the Humble Store.

After like 12 hours the payment was accepted, but now the keys are "temporarily exhausted" and I'm still waiting after several days even though they already took the money.

When I placed the order there no indication of exhausted keys and there was also a decent returned wallet credit listed. After payment went through wallet is still empty and no trace of this anymore. Wallet still unchanged and the actual deal is much worse than advertised at order time.

I have better experience with certain not-so-legit key sellers regarding support, transparency and reliability and will consider twice before buying again here.

7 May 2024
Unprompted review

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