Backpack Hero
Fair · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 12.6h
- Value
- $1.59/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($11.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($9.99)
- Last discount ended
- 24 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DX10, DX11, DX12 capable., 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The inventory management roguelike! Collect rare items, organize your backpack, and vanquish your foes!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was June 2025. Its cuts run 35 percent off as a rule. There have been 38 in the 4 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 27 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 67 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cat God Ranch ($5.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Roguebook ($24.99, scores 60).
The press gave it 76; the people who bought it give it 86 percent. A 10-point gap in the buyer's favour.
16 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 462 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 12.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 58, 4.6 times as much.
At 12.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
63% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Can´t say I would recommend it. It´s fun, has funny lore, the mechanics are engaging... But the mountain of bugs... oh man. And game is seemingly abandonware already. Not really worth the money it costs
Played this from EA to when released. When it released fully it had and does still have game breaking bugs that softlocks your game. While I enjoy the gameplay sadly it seems it was just abandoned instead of being fixed. Will update review if game every gets fixed but after waiting 2 years nearly I doubt it will.
Backpack Hero is such an amazing concept with solid execution. Unfortunately the devs have left the game in passable state. It's not like the game is "unplayable" or anything too dire, but it really suffers from bloat. One of the issues this game faces is its lootpool, there are too many item sets dedicated to a niche, build defining synergy. To make matters worse, most of the items that make these build good are in...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Backpack Hero scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1970580/backpack-heroReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 19, price as of Oct 1.
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