Backpack Battles
Worth it · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99. Typically $11.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hour
- $0.62/hr
- ReviewsS
- 91% of 20,860
- Genre rank
- Top 9% Roguelike
Holding it back: Recent reviews, Reach
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 81% over the last 30 days against 91% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 24h
- To 100%
- 39.9h 1.7x the story
- Achievements
- 230
Price and sales
- Sales
- 22 on record
- Typical cut
- 20% off
- Steam low
- $10.39 November 2024
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 836 now
- Recent reviews
- 81% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 27% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 87% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
48% start to 3% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 22 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 20 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 9 percent. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Luck be a Landlord ($9.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot ($14.99, scores 55).
More about Backpack Battles
Players rate it 91 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 81 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 962 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Nov 9 and Nov 22, at about $11.99 (20% off). Predictions like this were right 73% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks. Its own discounts have started about 82 days apart.
Discounted in each of its last 5 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 29 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
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...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
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+...
the ultimate meeting game. inventory tetris meets autobattler meets me asking "can you repeat that" until I'm fired
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
A PvP inventory management auto battler! Buy and craft powerful items, then carefully arrange them in your backpack.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, GTX 1060 3G, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Backpack Battles scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2427700/backpack-battlesReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.