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Get five great indie games (PC) for $5

For about the price of a venti mocha, you can score five games that'll give you weeks' worth of entertainment (unlike, say, a venti mocha).

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Five indie games for five bucks? How can you go wrong?
Five indie games for five bucks? How can you go wrong? Screenshot by Rick Broida

It's Friday! Need something fun to do this weekend? For less than the price of a movie ticket, you can score a sweet bundle on some relentlessly entertaining PC games.

It's called the 5 for $5 Bundle, and it's available now through July 3. For the impossibly low price of just five bucks, you get the following DRM-free indie games:

Delve Deeper An action/adventure/strategy game in which you "take command of five Dwarf adventurers as they dive into long-abandoned mines to search for incredible wealth, lost treasures, dangerous monsters and bragging rights at the drinking hall."

Digitanks Turn-based tank action: "Build an army of tanks and fight for control of the digital resources with this unique artillery-based strategy game."

Mactabilis Like scrolling shooters? This one features blistering action with RPG elements: "Customize your ship, select from a large array of weapons or even create your own!"

Spring Up Harmony Weird name, cool game: "Use your aiming skills in this physics-based action-puzzler! Shoot balls in the 35 levels of Spring Up Harmony and catch the items falling out of the screen with your user-controlled bucket."

Steel Storm: Burning Retribution A sweet-looking top-down shooter, Steel Storm is the only game here that's also available for Mac and Linux.

You can get a sneak peek of all five games in the promo video below. Alas, none of the proceeds go to charity--unlike the killer game bundle I'm cooking up with AppSumo. (Details on that are coming soon, so stay tuned!) Still, for five bucks, this is a no-brainer. In fact, don't tell the devs this, but I'd have paid 10.

Bonus deal: Today only, Daily Steals has a killer deal on a refurbished fourth-gen 8GB iPod Touch: $159.99 shipped. Very likely to sell out at that price! Thanks to reader mrettig for sharing the info.