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Backpack Battles

PlayWithFurcifer · IndieArk · 2025-06-13

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Mar 08, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 13, 2025 (Linux)

A PvP inventory management auto battler! Buy and craft powerful items, then carefully arrange them in your backpack.

1,163
playing now
91%
positive of 21k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
93
twitch viewers (latest)
77/100
IGDB user rating (17 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

1,163 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 01:00 UTC (census sample)

Backpack Battles is an auto battler inventory management video game developed by PlayWithFurcifer and published by PlayWithFurcifer and IndieArk. The game was released into early access on Steam on March 8, 2024, and regular work has continued on the game into 2025. The release of the full game was announced for June 13, 2025.

Health check

Cooling
  • · 1,163 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,637 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~205/week).
  • · Review velocity down 60% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (6,681 reviews).
  • · Top 4% of 5,887 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 413k–929k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 20,638 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $8.31 at GreenManGaming (2024-11-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 21 of 41 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6.2k6.2k20242026Week of 2024-03-01: 6,238 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 443 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1,154 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 277 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 597 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 126 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 368 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 78 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 351 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 274 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 257 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 236 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1,422 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 659 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 269 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 215 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 221 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 173 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 164 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1,184 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 87 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 501 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 328 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 232 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 195 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 989 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 232 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 238 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 147 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 188 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 231 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 164 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 17 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2.1k7032026-08-06 22:00 — 703 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 1,218 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 1,901 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 896 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 1,578 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 2,131 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 956 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 1,629 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 2,096 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 806 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 1,298 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 1,990 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 822 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 1,439 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 1,961 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 830 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 1,457 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 2,134 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 871 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 1,152 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 1,994 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 914 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 1,435 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 2,051 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 1,054 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 1,072 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 1,560 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 1,240 players2026-08-30 01:00 — 1,163 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$8.312024-03-082026-08-082024-03-08 — best price $9.702024-03-22 — best price $12.992024-04-12 — best price $9.352024-05-01 — best price $12.992024-05-25 — best price $12.992024-06-20 — best price $11.692024-07-12 — best price $12.992024-08-10 — best price $12.992024-08-24 — best price $12.992024-09-30 — best price $9.352024-10-25 — best price $9.352024-11-21 — best price $12.992024-12-04 — best price $12.992025-01-02 — best price $12.992025-01-26 — best price $11.692025-03-03 — best price $9.352025-03-28 — best price $12.992025-05-03 — best price $14.992025-05-24 — best price $14.992025-06-22 — best price $14.992025-08-05 — best price $14.992025-08-27 — best price $14.992025-09-27 — best price $14.992025-11-04 — best price $14.992025-11-21 — best price $9.592025-12-18 — best price $11.992026-01-10 — best price $14.992026-02-10 — best price $14.992026-02-24 — best price $14.992026-03-19 — best price $11.992026-04-22 — best price $14.992026-05-04 — best price $11.992026-05-18 — best price $14.992026-06-18 — best price $11.992026-07-14 — best price $14.992026-08-08 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

151152026-05-30 — 23 pageviews2026-06-02 — 38 pageviews2026-06-05 — 24 pageviews2026-06-08 — 30 pageviews2026-06-11 — 21 pageviews2026-06-14 — 20 pageviews2026-06-17 — 24 pageviews2026-06-20 — 32 pageviews2026-06-23 — 27 pageviews2026-06-26 — 32 pageviews2026-06-29 — 25 pageviews2026-07-02 — 43 pageviews2026-07-05 — 54 pageviews2026-07-08 — 139 pageviews2026-07-11 — 65 pageviews2026-07-14 — 41 pageviews2026-07-17 — 21 pageviews2026-07-20 — 28 pageviews2026-07-23 — 32 pageviews2026-07-26 — 34 pageviews2026-07-29 — 28 pageviews2026-08-01 — 15 pageviews2026-08-04 — 20 pageviews2026-08-07 — 27 pageviews2026-08-10 — 24 pageviews2026-08-13 — 21 pageviews2026-08-16 — 27 pageviews2026-08-19 — 19 pageviews2026-08-22 — 26 pageviews2026-08-25 — 33 pageviews2026-08-27 — 36 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

34102026-08-27 22:34 — 3 viewers2026-08-28 00:34 — 23 viewers2026-08-28 02:34 — 33 viewers2026-08-28 04:34 — 29 viewers2026-08-28 06:34 — 10 viewers2026-08-28 08:34 — 9 viewers2026-08-28 10:34 — 26 viewers2026-08-28 12:34 — 32 viewers2026-08-28 14:34 — 53 viewers2026-08-28 16:35 — 7 viewers2026-08-28 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 00:34 — 20 viewers2026-08-29 02:34 — 39 viewers2026-08-29 04:34 — 44 viewers2026-08-29 06:34 — 51 viewers2026-08-29 08:34 — 53 viewers2026-08-29 10:34 — 90 viewers2026-08-29 12:35 — 91 viewers2026-08-29 14:34 — 63 viewers2026-08-29 16:34 — 32 viewers2026-08-29 18:34 — 13 viewers2026-08-29 20:34 — 93 viewers2026-08-29 22:34 — 40 viewers2026-08-30 00:34 — 21 viewers2026-08-30 02:34 — 53 viewers2026-08-30 04:34 — 65 viewers2026-08-30 06:34 — 53 viewers2026-08-30 08:34 — 29 viewers2026-08-30 10:34 — 326 viewers2026-08-30 12:34 — 7 viewers2026-08-30 14:34 — 79 viewers2026-08-30 15:34 — 93 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
47.2%
earned "My Treasure"
26.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxFull controller supportMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Spanish - Latin America

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)5,7340%230

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

PvPLootIndieCombatStrategyTacticalRogue-likeTurn-BasedMultiplayerAuto Battler

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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