The autobattling head-to-head RPG the place you play stock tetris to construct your character, Bakcpack Battles, launched its Early Entry construct this week. Every spherical you go up in opposition to a construct made by one other participant earlier than hitting up the store to seize a brand new stuff with the gold you’ve got received. It is like PvP however with out the stress of a real-time sport—the particular person you are “taking part in in opposition to” made that construct hours in the past, perhaps.
Backpack Battles first received my consideration final fall when its multiplayer demo received one thing like 7,000 concurrent gamers one weekend. It is topping these numbers this weekend with a peak of almost 20,000 concurrent gamers—19,775 to be actual.
The neat a part of Backpack Battles is the way you make your character: You sew on new components and pouches to your backpack with a view to change the house obtainable and its form, as a result of every merchandise you add to it synergizes relying on what it is positioned subsequent to. Meals may buff up when subsequent to extra meals, for instance, or a protect could be extra highly effective for each weapon subsequent to it. Objects may mix, with a view to change into extra highly effective or alternate verions of themselves.
The discharge model provides two new lessons: The Berserker and the Pyromancer. The berserker is a weapons-focused rager, whereas the pyromancer will get extra highly effective as she units extra issues inside her pack on hearth. The right launch additionally provides puppies, apparently. Puppies!
You’ll find Backpack Battles on Steam for $13, although it is 10% off till March 22.