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Fighting, Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy
Backpack Hero is the inventory management roguelike! Collect rare items, organize your bag, and vanquish your foes! Purse discovers a Magical Backpack and ventures into the Dungeon to find the mythical cheese hidden within!
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TheSixthAxisJason ColesNov 20239/10Backpack Hero is an excellent roguelike that should be on everyone's radar. Every moment of the game is fun to play, the story is solid, and the meta progression is deeply satisfying. It's everything a good roguelike should be, and I'm going to continue playing it as soon as I finish writing this paragraph.
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God is a GeekLyle CarrDec 20238.5/10Backpack Hero makes Deck Building easy by replacing a deck of cards with a backpack, and has some seriously unique ideas.
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DestructoidFilip GalekovicJan 20248/10Despite 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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PlayStation UniverseJoe RichardsJun 20245.5/10The core concept of Backpack Hero is one with incredible potential for an awesome conbination of two classic genres, but the result feels slightly muddled and confused in the final product. Where the foundations are solid, convoluted and poor explanations of complex mechanics lead to an experience that left me scratching my head more than a few times, and not in the intended way. Despite oozing with personality from the very beginning, and offering a wide variety of content to sink your teeth into, I didn't find myself meshing with the offerings on show here. Sometimes less, is undoubtedly more.
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PC InvasionJason VenterDec 20235.5/10Backpack Hero offers some neat adventures worth experiencing, but you'll have to grapple with a persistently irritating interface and other rough edges to find them all.
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IGDB rating 7.8/10 from 26 ratings.
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