About
Explore the immersive world of Backpack Brawl - a dynamic inventory management 2D auto-battle strategy game. Unleash your strategic prowess as you purchase and craft potent items to achieve success in the game. Keep the momentum going by growing your inventory, expand your backpack capacity, and adapt to any challenges that lie ahead. Placement matters! Putting the right items next to each other makes all the difference. Play smart and you'll do well. Play against other players. You play against other players who have had the same opportunities as you. See what they come up with, and counter them! You might even learn some new tricks looking at what they do. Choose between multiple Heroes to help shape your available items and inventory and choose the direction you like! Are you a spell-slinging elementalist? A hardy warrior? A long range marksman? As more heroes join the Brawl, the heroes you meet only get more challenging. Fight your way to the top of the rankings!
Info
Release
Mar 26, 2024
Last Updates
Fixed a stuck state where if you closed the game while having won a game on the game over screen, it would get soft locked on the opening screen. Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/XCMUfbqkXn
Rating
Rated for 3+
Genre
Strategy
Reviews
Day 2 player here. The game is hella fun with huge variety of builds to experiment with! It's quite timegated though but it gives some sense of progression, and allows players to focus levelling on the preferred builds. However, the choice of card is still somehwat random. Suggestion to the dev: Implement some mechanics to let players narrow down on the choice of cards obtainable from chests. Thanks for reading.
CheddarCheese
The game itself is fantastic. There's more than enough variety with the characters even if you don't have them all unlocked. The few bucks immediately unlocks so much more play time and I enjoy all of them, even if they're normally not my "style." My one complaint is I despise subscriptions in Mobile games. With how easy they are to forget (~85% of people have at least one subscription they've forgotten) I can't condone it. Making the ad removal a one time purchase would make this game 5/5
El Swart
This Roguelite game play is fun. No forced ads is a great feature but it's held back by the subscription feature to get rid of the other ads. The $9.99 a month is entirety way to much in my opinion. A price point of $2.99 for the content it provides is more fitting. The F2P is viable though, so playing and not paying is the way to go here. It only suffers in higher ranks where the paid gap becomes more clear, but not overwhelmingly so.
Buried By Greed
Very fun, I wish it wasn't as centered on going after the 2 or 3 builds that are just superior. Every time I try to try different builds I just lose all my lives in a row and have to start over. Kinda pushes you to look for the same stuff over and over and leave it to the rng gods to see if you get those items in the shop earlier vs later
Inaki Irisarri
Pros : no forced ads, daily quest for those who loves grinding, simple yet complex (many combos and item placement). Cons : NO TUTORIAL. After more areas unlocked, it becomes difficult to get items you need, heavily dependent on luck. Maybe a gradually bigger store?? Unique items will make or break your game. Some chars only have one or two combos to get 15 wins, so if you miss that one item, it's a guaranteed defeat. Last one, this game eats a lot of battery!!
Yusuf MM
I've only played a day, and I'm already seeing issues. The game seems to be truly random, so you can start your first fight without the ability to buy weapons, and 30% probability actions can go 10 rounds with no procs. The game also gets immensely hard as you near filling all stars for a run, as only the builds that have gotten lucky with drops are left. At least make the drops favor the hero you've selected, I'm tired of getting 80% mana items on an energy hero.
Kurdt Xavier
Finally, a fun game! The gameplay feels smoothe, there are a lot of mechanics to explore and master. There is a clear way to advance free to play, no forced ads, but the option to watch ads to get ahead slightly. The game has a lot of possible strategies that can become truly strong. The fact that there is an element of luck makes that interesting as you never know what build you will have to settle for. I would love other modes added with infinite rounds against predetermined levels or such. :)
Matthijs
Game is sometimes really fun, but I swear it will decide to randomly screw you over and for multiple playthroughs just not give you any weapons. Pool of weapons and builds need to be refined a bit, shouldn't go through 5 playthroughs with 5 lives each run plus an extra life with the ad, to go out with one or two trophies out of 15 just because you weren't able to buy any weapons.
Tristian Garcia
Fun game, had my characters relatively decently leveled. After the last update I was mid-fight and went out of the app to take care of something urgent. I went back in and was back at the main menu. None of the buttons worked so I closed out and restarted multiple times. Nothing seemed to work so I un-installed and reinstalled and lost all of my data. This is horrendous for UX. I've spent probably 40 hour so hours on leveling the account for it to be lost to something as so stupid.
Jonathan Castrechino
My main problem that I haven't seen mentioned, this eats away at my battery, I have a pretty decent phone, there's no reason for my phone to drain with THIS game. I can't play anymore if I value my long term battery life at all. As most say, it's fun and addictive, especially at first. However the difficulty jumps, rng becoming a problem with more items being available and the game mechanics heavily favouring specific combos make the experience a bit grating. also I want my phone to survive
Kevin Cardoso Hoppe
Fun little backpack hero ripoff for sure. Would be 5 stars but there is no option to pay for zero ads. Would pay up to 15 for the option. In addition, as others have noted, unlocking more items hinders building items you want as the pool expands and you have no control over the pool except rerolls. Banishes or favorites or just focused pools would be a major improvement. Until then, only level one character or be boned later on. Leveling a level one hero is Ruby Pantry is awful.
Ruby Whirlwind