Inkle was founded in 2011 by Jon Ingold and Joseph Humfrey, two game developers with a passion for storytelling and beautiful design. To date, Inkle has released eleven games for PC and Mac, all of which are included in The Complete Inkle Library Humble Bundle at the $12 tier:
- TR-49 -- a narrative deduction game set inside a computer with the power to rewrite reality
- Expelled! -- a British boarding school adventure with a protagonist who struggles to be good
- A Highland Song -- a survival/rhythm game set in the beautiful but treacherous Scottish highlands
- Overboard! -- a cruise ship murder mystery with a twist: you're the murderer
- Pendragon -- real-time strategy meets medieval storytelling
- Heaven's Vault -- explore open-world archeological ruins to decipher a lost language
- 80 Days -- Jules Verne with a Steampunk twist
- Steve Jackson's Sorcery! Parts 1-4 -- a sprawling adaptation of an epic fantasy series
All of these games feature extremely "branchy" storylines, developed in Inkle's signature Ink scripting language, that give players nearly unlimited freedom to decide how the narrative unfolds. This immersive storytelling has earned the studio numerous award nominations and wins from organizations including the Independent Game Festival and the BAFTAs, as well as Game of the Year recognition from publications such as the New Yorker, Time magazine, Gamesindustry.biz, Mashable, and Paste.
Inkle's catalogue also includes four Heaven's Vault novels, penned by Jon Ingold and set in the same world as the game. All four Heaven's Vault ebooks are included in the Humble Bundle at the $20 tier.
A portion of bundle sales will support Breakthrough T1D Play, the video game initiative of Breakthrough T1D, the largest global nonprofit funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research and advocacy. Founded in 2019 by game industry veterans whose children have T1D, the program has raised more than $8.5 million through bundles such as Inkle's, charity streams on Twitch, Steam sales, and other game-adjacent fundraisers.