When a dungeon-crawling mouse stumbles upon a magical backpack, it’s about to get roguelike! Discover the depths beneath Orderia, struggle fierce humorous animals, shuffle round goodies in your pack, and rebuild the city of Haversack Hill. No two runs are alike so seize your pack and let’s roll.
Backpack Hero began off as a Kickstarter final 12 months and was funded actual fast when the general public caught wind of the distinctive premise.
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The sport’s a turn-based roguelike, combining the acquainted procedurally-generated RPG method with an intricate stock administration system. The stock is most similar to the one made well-known by the Resident Evil franchise, however with some enjoyable twists.
On any given dungeon crawl, you’ll obtain new gadgets from chests and enemies. You’ll rotate and stuff these into your backpack, which is able to broaden once you stage up that run. As your pack will get greater you’ll need to strategise and prioritise gadgets, perfecting your construct for what would possibly lie forward. There are buffs, perks, and complementary gadgets and bag placements With the appropriate know-how, together with a little bit prayer to the RNG gods you would possibly simply make it via.
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Every of the 5 characters play fully totally different from each other. Our protagonist Purse is the all-rounder, and has your commonplace subject increasing magical backpack and entry to a smorgasbord of things. Then there’s the musician Satchel who can attraction enemies along with his instrument-leaning loadout, and has a ripped backpack which ends up in a Tetris-esque backpack enlargement minigame. There are three different unlockable characters to seek out in your journey for those who’re fortunate (together with Satchel) however I’ll save the spoilers.
There are a bunch of quests too, which encourage you to check out totally different playstyles. One had me on an all-fish run, the place I used to be given a Fish Sword that was buffed by any surrounding fish in my backpack, and also you higher consider my backpack turned an enormous aquarium. One other gave me a Keg and a Piggybank which let me purchase drinks to replenish my power, which means if I had sufficient dosh I might have dozens of turns again to again, which was fairly darn OP at occasions.
If you’re not tackling the dungeons beneath Orderia, you’ll be in Purse’s hometown of Haversack Hill. After being destroyed by the dangerous guys, it’s as much as you and your new bag powers to rebuild and produce again the pleasant townsfolk. Right here you’ll construct new constructions which’ll internet you extra assets, and unlock gadgets for the RNG merchandise pool, character-specific quests and new areas throughout the dungeon. It’s additionally sadly the place the sport received most buggy for me. The extra I progressed, the longer the menus appeared to freeze up on me, leaving me much less bothered to unlock issues at occasions. I’m undecided if this can be a Change port subject, however hopefully this shall be patched out actual quickly. And I’m simply grateful that the dungeons don’t appear to be affected!
Backpack Hero is a superb roguelike. With its distinctive stock mechanics, cute solid of characters and seemingly infinite gameplay prospects, that is one sport you oughta stuff into your backpack!
Ranking: 4.5/5