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Backpack Hero

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4.4/5

( 14 Reviews )

4.4

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Backpack Hero
Description
The inventory management roguelike! Collect rare items, organize your backpack, and vanquish your foes!   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 thei...
Genre:
Action - Strategy - Fighting
Tags:
Action, Indie, Strategy, Turn-Based, Pixel Graphics, show 7 more... Tactical, Roguelike, Family Friendly, Cartoony, Roguelite, Dungeon Crawler, Fighting
Critics reviews
64 %
Recommend
RPGamer
3/5
God is a Geek
8.5/10
Destructoid
8/10
User reviews

4.4/5

( 14 Reviews )

4.4

14 Reviews

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Product details
2023, Jaspel, ...
System requirements
Windows 7 (SP1+), Windows 10 and Windows 11, 1.1 GHz Processor, 1 GB RAM, DX10, DX11, DX12 capable....
Time to beat
11.5 hMain
48 h Main + Sides
59 h Completionist
39.5 h All Styles

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


 
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!
 
   
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!
 

   
  • 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

Copyright © 2023 Jaspel LLC. All rights reserved.

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Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
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Time to beat
11.5 hMain
48 h Main + Sides
59 h Completionist
39.5 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Game details
Genre:
Action - Strategy - Fighting
Tags:
Action, Indie, Strategy, Turn-Based, Pixel Graphics, show 7 more... Tactical, Roguelike, Family Friendly, Cartoony, Roguelite, Dungeon Crawler, Fighting
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04), Mac OS X (10.12+)
Release date:
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Company:
Jaspel / Pretty Soon
Size:
180 MB
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Critics reviews
72
Top Critic Average
64 %
Critics Recommend
OpenCritic Rating
RPGamerby 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 Geekby 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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Destructoidby 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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Posted on: September 5, 2025

GUNDAM080

Verified owner

Games: 5 Reviews: 2

stuck bugs

fun but lot of bugs, got stuck on one of separating ways when we need to chosse one but since one of the way not removed so i stuck there

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Posted on: October 9, 2024

Sepuku_LV

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Games: 118 Reviews: 12

Nice

Nice game.

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Posted on: June 6, 2025

lexx_us_sim

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Games: 183 Reviews: 1

fun rouglike

I like this game very much/ Four symbols

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Posted on: April 11, 2024

maestrith

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Games: 251 Reviews: 1

Controller support is not working right

I can start the game and choose the type of game that I want to play, then when I choose a character and try to start the game I can not do anything else. I have to grab my mouse to do anything else. I have tried the demo on another store and it plays perfectly. Not sure what happened with this release but I am requesting a refund.

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