The former business development team from Humble Bundle has announced Digiphile, a discovery platform offering a community-focused approach by fans, not algorithms.
A group of former Humble Bundle business developers have launched a new digital storefront called Digiphile in a bid to deliver the “next big thing in community-focused discovery.” The platform’s founders believe what fans need isn’t more choice (with thousands of new games landing on the Steam platform each year), they need better curation and discovery, and that’s what Digiphile aims to do. Digiphile’s Collections attempts to bring back the ‘good old days’ of gaming bundles, functioning as community-wide events that include curator engagement and guest curator deep dives, rather than relying on a ‘faceless’ algorithm.
Digiphile Founder Alex Hill says, “Working at Humble Bundle was a dream come true for a fan like me. And I’m not alone. We were all fans of Humble Bundle even before we worked there,” adding, “Now we’re committed to staying true to Humble’s spirit and building what we loved about it in the first place.” The Digiphile platform is the self-proclaimed result of years of feedback from the Reddit community and video game publishing partners, crafted to address the fan concerns and better amplify users’ voices.
Their inaugural games collection (or bundle), Return of the Immersive Sim, supports the Arbor Day Foundation with a lineup that includes 2025 releases and more, with System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster, Perepiteia, Shadows of Doubt, Fallen Aces from 2024, 2023’s System Shock, Blood West, and indie title CTRL ALT EGO. The Arbor Day Foundation is an initiative that seeks “to shape the future through trees,” bringing trees to where they’re needed most.
Digiphile’s one-year plan includes evolving the platform into a space for users to connect, share, and contribute to community-driven goals, all while supporting causes they care about. Co-founder Andy Franzen says, “We are self-funded and completely independent, meaning we answer to our community, not shareholders,” emboldening the idea that the curation of the platform will be done by humans and not algorithm guesses.
The first bundle from Digiphile is available on its official website, and more information about its community plans can be found there.
