Backpack Hero

The inventory management roguelike! Collect rare items, organize your backpack, and vanquish your foes!

Genres

ActionRogue-LiteTurn-Based

Features

Controller SupportSingle Player

The inventory management roguelike!

Overview

Backpack Hero is a twist on your standard deck-building roguelike. It isn't just about what you carry, but how you organize the items within your bag! Their placement has a huge impact on their performance. Find them the right spot in your backpack to increase their power! Explore ancient dungeons, caves, swamps, and more! Meet colorful friends and fight deadly foes! Don't get lost!

Story Mode

When you aren't putting your life in danger, you can make good use of the resources you have gathered and rebuild your hometown of Haversack Hill! Turn it into a charming and efficient hamlet to attract new residents. Buy and sell items, conduct research, and unlock heroes, challenges, and quests. By organizing the perfect village, you will restore the world of Orderia and rescue the animals who live there!

Features

  • Experiment with your strategy and create game-breaking solutions

  • Collect 800+ distinct items, with ingenious powers and synergies to harness

  • Battle with over 100+ enemies. Learn their attack patterns and vanquish your foes

  • Dive into the endless dungeons! Start every run with randomly generated levels and discover unpredictable items, unique layouts, events, and challenges

  • Explore 5 unique play styles by selecting different heroes

  • Play standalone runs or experience the full adventure and meta progression in Story Mode

  • Rebuild Haversack Hill and help its inhabitants

  • Turn the village into an appealing and efficient hamlet to attract new residents. Buy and sell items, conduct research, and unlock heroes, challenges, and quests

  • Play with full controller support

Available Achievements

Archer
30 XP
Tough Times
30 XP
Builder
30 XP
Town Hall
30 XP
Cursed Run
30 XP

Backpack Hero Ratings & Reviews

RPGamer

by Ryan Costa

3 / 5

The gameplay loop is so richly varied that finding new ways to break the game with a build is always entertaining, it is just a shame that the presentation surrounding this gameplay is so lackluster.

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God is a Geek

by Lyle Carr

8.5 / 10

Backpack Hero makes Deck Building easy by replacing a deck of cards with a backpack, and has some seriously unique ideas.

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Destructoid

by Filip Galekovic

8 / 10

Despite floundering a bit with meta-progression mechanics, Backpack Hero is still a thoroughly entertaining deckbuilding roguelike. Its use of item management as a central game mechanic is wildly inventive, and I consistently wanted to reenter the dungeon just to explore new item synergies. I do wish the town sections didn’t drag the pace of the main campaign as much as they did. But even if you strictly use the Quick Game mode, Backpack Hero is still a worthwhile venture.

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Backpack Hero System Requirements

Minimum

Recommended

OS version

Windows 7 (SP1+), Windows 10 and Windows 11

OS version

Windows 7 (SP1+), Windows 10 and Windows 11

CPU

1.1 GHz Processor

CPU

>1.1 GHz Processor

Memory

1 GB RAM

Memory

>1 GB RAM

GPU

DX10, DX11, DX12 capable.

GPU

DX10, DX11, DX12 capable.

DirectX

DirectX 10

Storage

250 MB available space

Languages Supported

  • Audio: N/A

  • Text: English, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Latin America)

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