Get 7 serious shooters for just $17, or 4 hidden gems for a fiver, in a pair of packages from new game bundle seller Digiphile

Mullet Madjack - a cyborg character is hit in the face with a cleaver by a player infirst-person — (Image credit: Hammer95 Studios)

If you dig boomer shooters (or any kind of shooter, really), you might just dig the new Boomer Shooter Blueprint collection rolled out today by Digiphile. It's a collection of seven old-school shooters, some of which I can attest are very good, for just $17, a portion of which will go to support the Whale and Dolphin Conservation charity.

Here's the full list of games in the bundle, along with their Steam ratings so you don't think I'm just talking out of my ass about how good they are:

Selaco - Very positive
I Am Your Beast - Overwhelmingly positive
Mullet Madjack - Overwhelmingly positive
Beyond Citadel - Overwhelmingly positive
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun - Very positive
Incision - Very positive
Cultic - Overwhelmingly positive

As to my own experience with them, Boltgun is a blast (although the final boss fight is garbo, thank god for cheats), Selaco treads pleasingly close to an early-days immsim, and Mullet Madjack was a bit too frantic for me but its retro-future styling is a blast, and genuinely funny.

Digiphile's revenue distribution is fixed, so unlike Humble Bundle you can't dedicate your entire payment to charity or the game devs: The bulk of funds raised will go to the developers, while 5% goes to charity.

There is also, however, an add-on tier with the Selaco, Mullet Madjack, Incision, and Cultic soundtracks, a Mullet Madjack art book, and Boomer Shooter Blueprint "commemorative art" that you can pick up for an extra fiver, all of which will go to Whale and Dolphin Conservation.

Alongside the Boomer Shooter Blueprint is the Boomer Shooter Indie Spotlight bundle, featuring four lesser known boomer shooters—Texnoplazm, Killbug, Hands of Necromancy 2, and Wrack: Reclamation—for just $5. All four of the games in this bundle have fewer than 500 Steam reviews, and bundle co-curator Kirk Collects says they deserve more attention: "Each of these games are full of amazing, pulse-pounding action that should keep you smiling for hours on end. Enjoy them, share them with your friends and be sure to send your love to the developers."

Boomer Shooter Indie Spotlight Game Collection - YouTube

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Digiphile's Boomer Shooter Blueprint bundle, and the Boomer Shooter Indie Spotlight bundle, are both available until 6 pm PT on March 10, "or until supplies sell out."

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Andy has been gaming on PCs from the very beginning, starting as a youngster with text adventures and primitive action games on a cassette-based TRS80. From there he graduated to the glory days of Sierra Online adventures and Microprose sims, ran a local BBS, learned how to build PCs, and developed a longstanding love of RPGs, immersive sims, and shooters. He began writing videogame news in 2007 for The Escapist and somehow managed to avoid getting fired until 2014, when he joined the storied ranks of PC Gamer. He covers all aspects of the industry, from new game announcements and patch notes to legal disputes, Twitch beefs, esports, and Henry Cavill. Lots of Henry Cavill.

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