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Things are definitely heating up for the summer, which means it might not be a bad idea to take a break from the scorching summer sun to enjoy some games indoors. The Humble Monthly Bundle is here to keep you cool and keep your game library packed with great games.

Here's how it works: Visit the Humble Monthly Bundle site and sign up for just $12 per month. Then at the beginning of each month, you get a round of early-unlock games immediately. Good games. Fun games. But it keeps on delivering: even more games are revealed at the end of the month. So each month you get a whole grip of games, rationed out carefully for maximum enjoyment. When the next month begins, the process starts all over again, hence the “monthly” part of the Humble Monthly Bundle. You can cancel whenever you want, too, so if you see a game in this month’s bundle that really catches your fancy, but next month doesn’t excite you, there’s no penalty or committment. And isn’t being laid back what summer’s all about?

The July unlocks have already been revealed, so we’re going to leave those for the end. For now, let’s dive into the main course that is the Humble Monthly Bundle August early unlock games.

A Hat in Time

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A Hat in Time is an adorable, creative, and fun throwback to the heyday of the 3D platformer. With a charming protagonist and story, as well as lots and lots of hats, this is a great game to bring back the summer of ‘96.

The Escapists 2

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The Escapists 2 takes prison breaks to the next level, improving on all the various ways in which you must break out of the joint presented in the original game. The inmate life can be lonely, but The Escapists 2 has multiplayer, helping you make friends behind bars.

Conan Exiles

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The fictional Conan the Barbarian universe is savage and unforgiving, with hundreds of brutal ways to kill or be killed. That’s what makes it such a compelling backdrop for a survival RPG. If you think you’ve got what it takes to survive, unlock Conan Exiles in this month’s Humble Monthly Bundle.

If you're already a Humble Monthly Bundle subscriber, these are the games you just unlocked. If you haven't subscribed, sad to say you missed this batch of games, but it’s not too late to get sign up now and score plenty more to play in addition to the August early unlocks.

Forts

Forts is a physics-based competitive RTS that looks like if you took Worms for PC and taught advanced engineering to the combatants. It’s multiplayer, so you can build up and destroy fortresses with other friends and future enemies alike.

Titan Quest: Anniversary Edition + Titan Quest: Ragnarok DLC

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This action RPG set in the ancient world got an update for its 10th anniversary that essentially made it into an entirely new and fresh experience, while remaining familiar and true to its roots.

Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom

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Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom is a gorgeous hand-drawn action RPG set in a universe “doomed to destruction.” Originally Kickstarted in 2014, Shiness is a welcome throwback to older action RPGs, but with modern sensibilities.

Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition

Interplanetary is a turn-based strategy game where you build up an entire planet with the goal of raining missiles down on your foes. While you work to build up your own arsenal of interplanetary weapons, enemy planets are doing the same, so it becomes an all-out arms race.

Stumblehill (Humble Original)

Each Humble Monthly Bundle comes with a Humble original, a game you can’t get anywhere other than through Humble Bundle. This month’s original game is Stumblehill, a painterly platformer with a clumsy but cute penguin protagonist.

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