Bundle time! Now that the guilt accrued from holiday spending and Steam sales has waned, the folks at Indie Royale are ready encourage your wallet to fall open once again. This time it's The Choices 2013 Bundle, and among its featured titles are two co-op games you may have heard us gushing about in the past year.

A new bundle recently rolled into the Indie Royale offices, bringing with it a fistful of games from the commanders of cool co-op titles, Arcen Games! The Arclight Bundle sports ten games in all, each one borne from the loving bosoms of the A Valley WIthout Wind creator, and each one featuring co-op play in one form or another. To summarize: Arcen Games stuff for cheap. Buy now.

We had a chance to get a solid co-op session in with Arcen Games' A Valley Without Wind 2. The sequel is a total revamp of the original, but still retains that genre-breaking feel. The closest thing that it resembles is the old school SNES action/strategy hybrid, Act Raiser. 

Part strategy, part platformer, part RPG, part board game. A Valley Without Wind 2 takes a lot of different elements and throws them together in a single release. The crazy thing is it works, and it works really well. A massive improvement over the original and a superb game in its own right, A Valley Without Wind 2 is a deep and rewarding strategy game that's going to collect groups of extremely devoted fans.

A follow-up to the esoteric and sometimes confusing experience that was A Valley Without Wind, developer Arcen Games has just delivered a sequel that aims to correct every misstep taken by the original. Best described as ActRaiser with deeper strategic elements, A Valley Without Wind 2 mixes platforming, resource gathering, metroidvania-style exploration, and even co-op elements to create a game that goes out of its way to challenge traditional genre descriptors.