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Backpack Battles
Developer PlayWithFurcifer
Backpack Battles is an auto battler inventory management video game developed by PlayWithFurcifer and published by PlayWithFurcifer and IndieArk. The game was released into early access on Steam on March 8, 2024, and regular work has continued on the game into 2025. The release of the full game was announced for June 13, 2025. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
358 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
86
LovedLoved
207 positive · 33 negative
95% range 81–90%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 207 | 33 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 30 | 3 | 48 |
| Mastodon * | 7 | 0 | 13 |
| Lemmy * | 4 | 0 | 13 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
5,513 of 5,952 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
88% recommend · 196 yes, 28 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 224 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (18,957 of 20,792 positive).
Players praise the addictive gameplay loop and deep strategic depth. [1][2][3] Some reviewers criticize balance issues and matchmaking problems. [4][5][6] The game is noted for its unique combination of inventory management and auto-battler mechanics. [7][8][9]
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Representative posts
- [4]
Addictive & poorly balanced. Fun until platinum-rank & then the rank-clamping kicks in. Winning isn't good enough anymore, you have to dominate, usually against cookie-cutters following build guides. Many of whom lack an understanding of basic game mechanics & likely never will, by choice. Balancing is questionable at best, focusing too much on buffs (thus causing power creep.) With little-to-no consideration for …
- [12]
This game is so fun and satisfying to play. As a dad of two young children, it's a great game to play since it has async battles and I can get up and do things while playing. The art and sound effects are amazing. One feature I'd like to see is a key to press that temporarily hides or fades out all the items in your backpack so that you can view all your bags and hover over your bags. There are times where it's hard …
- [2]
If you are choosing between THIS GAME and Bazaar, Turnbound and other autobattlers, choose this one without any doubt Amount of ways this game allows you to be creative and have fun is endless. Very deep and strategic, but never boring
- [17]
I love this game. I love getting +0 ranking points for going 9/5 and getting -10 points for going 5/5. I love this game. I love making a whole build fishing for one item which I get to gather reagents for right before I lose my last life. I love this game. I love losing to a 3000 armor engineers. I love this game. I love making up tens of builds just to fall back to food necromancer. I love this game. I really do. …
- [1]
Addicting gameplay loop but I'd play this game a lot more if the art wasn't so horrendously ugly.
Summarised from 34 of the 327 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 9, 2026. How summaries are made
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Backpack Battles sits at 86% positive across 240 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
IGN reviewed Backpack Battles shortly after its early access release and awarded it a score of 6 out of 10. IGN described the shop phase of the game as "an enjoyable process that tickles the part of your brain that fires off in other games like Unpacking or just neatly fitting a bunch of your stuff into a closet," but warned that the game lacked enough items to make doing multiple runs interesting. Ali Jones of GamesRadar+ wrote prior to release that he was "already locked in" to the game.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 358 · most liked firstAddictive & poorly balanced. Fun until platinum-rank & then the rank-clamping kicks in. Winning isn't good enough anymore, you have to dominate, usually against cookie-cutters following build guides. Many of whom lack an understanding of basic game mechanics & likely never will, by choice. Balancing is questionable at best, focusing too much on buffs (thus causing power creep.) With little-to-no consideration for fun & interaction. Which is made further apparent by the matchmaking…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't get me wrong, game itself is really fun to play, but matchmaking is screwed up and devs don't want to address the issue - you just get banned from their Discord if you mention it. The way matchmaking is designed, causes insane power creep of the opponent boards, the further from big updates. Right now, if you are at master rank or above, it is almost guaranteed that you will struggle a lot(unless you're insanely lucky), also will most likely face an engineer with power armor + golden…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Less and less balanced. Too dependent on meta builds. The new class is going to destroy you.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game itself is nice, fun for the time when you have no other things to do. Downside of it are the devs that are overly sensitive. If you say that in your opinion art is being ugly - instat perma ban on the forums so can't even disscus other things. And for that childish attitude - a proper response. EDIT: Because some people think I went to their forums to get people offended. I actually went to the forums to say the game is nice, just the artwork isn't good - right after the new cover image,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Backpack Battles is so fun to play. made a little fanart of the gals during a grocery run. 🛒🥗🧾 also my first time using CSP for an illustration from start to finish. ৻( •̀ ᗜ •́ ৻) #clipstudiopaint #csp #backpackbattles #fanart
positive · AI labelView post →Backpack Battles is another clear indie Steam hit (made in Godot).
neutral · AI labelView post →in another effort to review every video game that has helped distract me from the crushing weight of my own mortality and the unavoidable horrors of the human condition: i'd give this game a 7/10 with the footnote: i really enjoy that this game plays itself so i can doomscroll while i play and further harm my attention span
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Backpack Battles sells 100,000 units within two days of Early Access release.
neutral · AI labelView post →It was fun at first, but I can't recommend the game in its current state. I can't shake the feeling that there is some kind of forced 50% win rate system similar to the one people often talk about in Dota 2. You can put together a strong build that counters multiple mechanics at once, only to then get matched against 4-5 hard counters in a row during your extra matches. Running a healing build? Suddenly you face opponents with 3-4 cursed helmets, sometimes for two games in a row, making your…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is so fun and satisfying to play. As a dad of two young children, it's a great game to play since it has async battles and I can get up and do things while playing. The art and sound effects are amazing. One feature I'd like to see is a key to press that temporarily hides or fades out all the items in your backpack so that you can view all your bags and hover over your bags. There are times where it's hard to scan and see what bags are underneath, or you want to hover on a bag to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Backpack Battles is in Early Access Now.
neutral · AI labelView post →The game is excellent. It feels genuinely unique—you can play it competitively or just relax and experiment with builds, and both approaches work. That balance is rare. That said, I think the ranked experience could be improved, mainly around matchmaking and build consistency. **Matchmaking (main issue)** Right now, it feels like matchmaking doesn’t properly account for the current state of a run. In a game where players start with 5 lives, remaining lives are the clearest and most…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have a muscle disease that makes it practically impossible to play first-person shooters. My feeling on the matter is that the amount of accommodations I would require would suck all the fun out of competitive play, despite the fact that I used to love playing Counter-Strike. Almost no two disabilities are equal, even if they have the same name. Creating a system to set accurate handicaps for a fast-paced competitive game would be a herculean effort. There are objective measures for things…
neutral · AI labelView post →Bloatpack battles. The devs kept adding more stuff, diluting the item pool, and didn't bother properly balancing what was already there. Have fun playing against the same builds on anything above diamond. Really saddens me to see the state of this game and give it a negative review.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Addicting gameplay loop but I'd play this game a lot more if the art wasn't so horrendously ugly.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can see why many people love this game. The build variety is insane. Almost every item can combine into something else, and the number of possible strategies feels enormous. There is clearly a lot of depth here. The problem is that the game constantly asks me to remember information instead of helping me use it. I spent most of my first hour opening the recipe book, scanning through pages of item icons, trying to remember what combines into what, then opening it again a few minutes later…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →4/10 Play Meta or lose. Pretty sad considering this is pseudo-singleplayer.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Backpack Battles has sold 500,000 copies in two weeks on Steam [Godot Engine].
neutral · AI labelView post →I came back yesterday, and among the NUMEROUS new changes and features, they gave new Engineer class the largest rack. So glad the team behind this game are people of exquisite culture. Also dunking on my friends as an OP Waterbender!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game used to be fun... back in beta, when it wasn't so overwhelmed by RNG and a million items. Random synergies just happen now; nothing is planned anymore. You just hope your backpack is more randomly put together than your opponent's. It's chaos, not fun. What used to be a chill experience has become absolutely unsatisfying. Adding new content is killing the game because it's no longer about strategy. Instead of interesting events, balancing, or seasons that subtly shift the meta, it’s…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very much enjoyed this. For a game that has you spending the majority of your time in a shop thinking about what to buy and how to order your inventory, it's always satisfying to see how that all pans out once you get into the battle. The game has an excellent replay and recap system as well, letting you go back and see how each battle panned out for you to see what you could have perhaps done better either item-wise or how your items were organised. The simplistic art style adds a lot to the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I play this game around one or two runs a day mainly on Berserker and I somewhat hit a wall on diamond 60. I enjoy playing it but also i can't stand horrible balance that hits you in the face if you don't play meta builds. There is so many possibilities to do a fun builds but nope, either you play whats absurdly too good or you lose rank points. I seen builds that kill Berserker that has very good sustain and survivability in less than 2 seconds. Dmg taken in this game is just too big, and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The only PvP game worth playing - because there's no interaction with other players.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've spent almost 1k hours playing this game and unfortunately the metas never change. I wanna discover new builds and have fun with different combinations but i always end up going against snowsticks + corrupted armor (reaper) or holy spears with genie lamps (engineer) or literally every iteration of eggscalibur constantly destroying me in games. At this point you HAVE to play meta builds in order to climb in ranked and its boring. I'm about ready to uninstall at this point.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rams game at the sports bar tonight 2XKO local Saturday Then I just need to fit in Hades 2 Expedition 33 FF7R Elden Ring DLC Silent Hill F Umineko Deltarune Side Content And ARG Ultra Fight Da Kyanta 2 Backpack Battles Cobalt Core FF6 Randomizer
neutral · AI labelView post →Excessive RNG overshadows player agency and progression I have decided to uninstall this game and remove it from my library due to an over-reliance on random number generation (RNG) that ultimately undermines the player experience. Initially, the game creates a strong first impression. During the first few runs, players are frequently rewarded with high-tier builds and discounts. However, this creates a false sense of agency. After extensive playtime, it becomes clear that success is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →✨🍎WEEKLY SCHEDULE🍎✨ MON: REPO with Aura and friends TUES: Backpack Battles WED: Finishing A Link to the Past THU/SAT: Warhammer 40k: Boltgun SUN: Untitled Goose Game A packed week to finish off my fundraiser on the 8th! See you there~ 🍎✨ #VTuber #ENVtuber #AppleCorps
neutral · AI labelView post →Started great but progressively worse as devs continue making bizarre balancing choices. It's just not fun anymore.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Here are bunch of #prototypes I worked on this year. Mostly unfinished ideas, but nice explorations of specific mechanics. Auto-City-Builder, Tower-Defense-Like card game, Attacktics style auto-battler, Backpack-Battles-Like spaceship Auto-battler. #gamedev #gamedesign
neutral · AI labelView post →the ultimate meeting game. inventory tetris meets autobattler meets me asking "can you repeat that" until I'm fired
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love autobattlers. Backpack Battlers is just very, very sweaty. I've hit some kind of meta wall where I'm forced to either spend a lot of time researching the meta, what is optimal, and still possibly losing runs... or not playing the game. It's too much of a commitment. Fun game until you hit the wall where the algorithm throws you into a blender.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you are choosing between THIS GAME and Bazaar, Turnbound and other autobattlers, choose this one without any doubt Amount of ways this game allows you to be creative and have fun is endless. Very deep and strategic, but never boring
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →LOOTPLOT just dropped on Steam today, and it’s one of those games that feels simple on the surface but worms its way into your brain.. LOOTPLOT just dropped on Steam today, and it’s one of those games that feels simple on the surface but worms its way into your brain. The pitch is straightforward: buy loot, arrange it on a grid, and hit the point threshold before the round timer runs out. That’s the loop. Except there are more than 300 unique items of varying rarities, dozens of slot types…
neutral · AI labelView post →The inability to reset your rank and the natural progression of the game, where it becomes harder over time as the builds you face become more optimised, makes the game unpleasant for the casual player who is unaware of meta builds.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Huge congratulations to Backpack Battles for winning the Strategy Game category at the #GodotAwards! youtu.be/mUzAHrpjwl4?... #IndieDev #GodotEngine #GameDev #RedRogueSea #BackpackBattles @stayathomedev.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun at launch, but the genre has moved on ⛔ Ugly character art, UI and backgrounds ⛔ Becomes super tedious with all the backpacks that you need to individually move around ⛔ Builds quickly devolve into boring extremes & uninteresting metas ⛔ Not enough build variety, especially once the community min-maxed the fun out of the game ⛔ Outshined by other entries in the genre ✅ Super fun playtesting period (sunk like 30+ hours into it) & launch ✅ Great item art & mechanics Grade: C- I would…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Packing my bags until I reach Diamond! 💎🎒 (or until stream ends). Aka Backpack Battles! www.twitch.tv/achie7240 #indiegames #backpackbattles #PngTuber #SmallStreamer #Twitch
neutral · AI labelView post →Indie game with unique inventory management, version 1.0 on Steam, and it’s 20% off. Backpack Battles is an auto-battling RPG all about laying out your inventory as optimally as possible. Swords, shields, snacks, healing herbs - they all need a spot in your bag, and where you place them will impact their effects. [Backpack Battles](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2427700/Backpack_Battles/)
neutral · AI labelView post →Okay, so this isn't normally my style of game. I'm more so a shooter, mmorpg, rpg, those types of games. But I consistently find myself coming back to this game over the years. It's so calm, self paced, and really gets the brain working and thinking and strategizing. It's a fantastic game that I think i'll continue to come back to for a very long time. Also I don't leave reviews, but this game just deserves it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Boring, the game gets more and more unbalanced with each update.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As fun as it is in the beginning. it cheats and at a point it will give you fake player AI builds that are literally the same and they will always be better unless you keep playing over and over till the game thinks you played enough then it will let you win. the game knows that if you get to the next rank too fast you won't need to play anymore. So it forces you to keep playing and losing until it decides its time ( i used the same build with pyro) the same build over and over to see when it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While the art style is typically not what i would go for in a game the actual game itself is incredible. I played this game first at GDC 2026 and was so roped into the game i forgot to blink and had red eyes for the rest of the day. It scratches that itch for management and numbers go up at the same time while rewarding multiple replays. 8/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun auto-battler. It has a lot more depth than i expected, hence i play it a lot more than I'd have imagined. I was almost a bit shocked to see that I played it for 50+ hours already at the time of this writing, it's easy to get lost (in a positive way) in this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Addicting game with lots of replayability!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Always a fun time of year seeing all the fun numbers 😁 Also...Backpack Battles really snuck in there as a "part-time" game 😅
positive · AI labelView post →Thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday! Made steady progress on #Capesong sprites & UI layout this week. A build-your-own-superhero game with turn-based timeline-planned combat (some inspirations include Super Auto Pets/Backpack Battles/The Bazaar). Still much work to do! s.team/a/4667120/
neutral · AI labelView post →I love this game. I love getting +0 ranking points for going 9/5 and getting -10 points for going 5/5. I love this game. I love making a whole build fishing for one item which I get to gather reagents for right before I lose my last life. I love this game. I love losing to a 3000 armor engineers. I love this game. I love making up tens of builds just to fall back to food necromancer. I love this game. I really do. It's a beautiful time sink that makes your brain put in effort. It is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →post platinum the balance is trash, the enjoyment of seeing your build develop is completely nullified as you can only try to win by playing meta ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. the beauty of the game was adapting and trying the multiple item choices the game offer, but it doesnt matter if you are expecting to have any win with it. And you can really see some questionably perfect backpacks as you climb, surely this is just luck, right? L̶o̶v̶e̶l̶y̶ a̶r̶t̶ a̶n̶d̶ a̶ r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ g̶o̶o̶d̶ g̶a̶m̶e̶p̶l̶a̶y̶ l̶o̶o̶p̶,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Definitely not a game for everyone, but if you are the type that likes to find what silly/stupid/broken combinations that can come out of items interacting with each other, and flex your Tetris/organization skills, you should have bought and installed this game long before you finished reading this sentence.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →That itch you get when you organize your inventory in RE4 in the perfect manner.....yea its that but as a stand alone game, and its also an auto-battler. Definitely a must play game if you're even somewhat interested in the genre.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great gameplay, so good it inspired many clones. The Slay the Spire of autobattlers.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I used to only play PVE autobattlers because PVP encounters just make me anxious and/or obnoxiously competitive. That's why, even though I enjoyed the demo for Backpack Battles and bought it in EA to support the devs (who have an amazing YouTube channel with tons of resources for Godot devs!), I didn't really touch it, even after its 1.0 release. After really diving deep into Super Auto Pets on mobile, I had a complete change of heart on async PVP autobattlers and decided to pick this game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post → [SKALD: Against the Black Priory](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1069160/SKALD_Against_the_Black_Priory/) is probably my go-to hidden gem. I keep nagging about it but it made a big impression on me. The writing was particularly impressive, with good prose in a distinctive tone and interesting world building plus some cool cosmic horror and Lovecraftian undertones. Beautiful pixel art - especially the splash…
neutral · AI labelView post →Surprise hit indie game Backpack Battles launches into 1.0 with two new classes After winning a big audience in 2024, the inventory battler is now complete, and it's on sale to celebrate #indiegame www.pcgamesn.com/backpack-bat...
neutral · AI labelView post →My return to the game was a BANGER 🔨 Back to playing Backpack Battles, so expect more wacky builds, more greed and the usual misplaced items! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9a_... #backpackbattles #indiegaming #indiegames #linuxgaming
positive · AI labelView post →Why I started this game: I was originally building a party game to play with my daughter. Then I looked back at the games I fell for as an adult: Ragnarok Online and Backpack Battles. Buildcrafting + quick autobattles became this project. Sorry, kiddo 😅 #indiedev #gamedev
positive · AI labelView post →Don't get me wrong - BPB is a great game - especially after they integrated the QoL features ToySmash and others have inovated after BPB pioneered in the genre... Yet the one thing that kills enjoyment for me is the matchmaking from master onwards. Enemy boards become unpredictably strong in spikes / there's a sudden difficulty increase from Diamond to Master / player agency is not felt anymore. This all is rather nebolous to players as well as there's literally no explanation or statement…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is good, with time it got even better and more complex as new items were added There are a lot of combos / synergies which is great, but the sheer amount of items is overwhelming at times My main issue is related to that. There’s an in-game page that shows all the items, and when you click on a more complex combo item, which is made up of four basic items, you can see the full recipe with all four components listed. But it doesn’t work the other way around. If you select a basic item, it…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Quote with your current game rotation" Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door I’m making the most progress on. I 💙 Mario RPGs Backpack Battles is a fun kind of pvp puzzle game that’s great for short burst of fun. Donkey Kong Bananza is giving me the platformer action I’ve missed. Next Jedi FO
positive · AI labelView post →With only one day to go, we're excited to announce that we will be launching a bundle with a game we deeply admire - Backpack Battles! 📢 BPB is a huge inspiration to us, and creating this bundle with them means a lot to our team! 💕 Wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/3802470/... #gaming
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