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Backpack Battles

PlayWithFurcifer · IndieArk · 2025-06-13

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Side view

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.

Backpack Battles is a Strategy game released in 2025, priced at $14.99, with an estimated 500,000 .. 1,000,000 owners and Very Positive (91% of 20688 reviews).

1,686
playing now
91%
positive of 21k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
14
twitch viewers (latest)
7.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
77/100
IGDB user rating (17 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

1,686 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 11:00 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.

Trailer

Backpack Battles trailer thumbnail

Backpack Battles 1.0 Announcement Trailer

≈492,609 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Cooling
  • · 1,686 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 2% of 14,091 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 416k–936k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 20,803 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 19 of 37 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

2.1k7002026-09-15 12:00 — 2,001 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 1,058 players2026-09-18 04:00 — 1,095 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 2,114 players2026-09-20 19:00 — 1,263 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 1,370 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 1,661 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 1,214 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 1,145 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 1,825 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 1,470 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 715 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 1,230 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 1,937 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 921 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 1,312 players2026-10-06 14:00 — 1,972 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 818 players2026-10-09 05:00 — 1,072 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 2,074 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 1,038 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 1,069 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 1,686 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
17k1.4kMar 2024Aug 2026Mar 2024 — avg 17,407 · peak 36,348Apr 2024 — avg 7,593 · peak 16,667May 2024 — avg 3,800 · peak 7,999Jun 2024 — avg 2,567 · peak 4,807Jul 2024 — avg 2,470 · peak 4,460Aug 2024 — avg 1,964 · peak 3,720Sep 2024 — avg 2,023 · peak 3,908Oct 2024 — avg 2,035 · peak 3,750Nov 2024 — avg 2,337 · peak 4,978Dec 2024 — avg 1,859 · peak 3,311Jan 2025 — avg 2,079 · peak 3,600Feb 2025 — avg 2,079 · peak 3,739Mar 2025 — avg 2,003 · peak 3,594Apr 2025 — avg 1,957 · peak 3,486May 2025 — avg 1,795 · peak 3,214Jun 2025 — avg 5,367 · peak 15,729Jul 2025 — avg 4,501 · peak 8,721Aug 2025 — avg 2,861 · peak 5,718Sep 2025 — avg 2,040 · peak 3,446Oct 2025 — avg 1,818 · peak 3,257Nov 2025 — avg 1,757 · peak 3,050Dec 2025 — avg 1,787 · peak 3,138Jan 2026 — avg 2,064 · peak 4,074Feb 2026 — avg 1,994 · peak 3,375Mar 2026 — avg 1,870 · peak 6,077Apr 2026 — avg 2,785 · peak 5,833May 2026 — avg 2,083 · peak 3,588Jun 2026 — avg 1,537 · peak 2,593Jul 2026 — avg 1,402 · peak 2,382Aug 2026 — avg 1,360 · peak 2,198
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
882026-09-222026-10-142026-09-22: 1 new negative2026-09-23: 4 new positive2026-09-23: 1 new negative2026-09-24: 2 new positive2026-09-25: 1 new positive2026-09-25: 1 new negative2026-09-26: 5 new positive2026-09-27: 8 new positive2026-09-27: 2 new negative2026-09-29: 1 new positive2026-09-30: 1 new positive2026-09-30: 1 new negative2026-10-01: 2 new positive2026-10-02: 2 new positive2026-10-02: 1 new negative2026-10-03: 4 new positive2026-10-04: 5 new positive2026-10-04: 3 new negative2026-10-05: 4 new positive2026-10-05: 1 new negative2026-10-06: 6 new positive2026-10-06: 2 new negative2026-10-07: 6 new positive2026-10-07: 1 new negative2026-10-08: 4 new positive2026-10-08: 2 new negative2026-10-09: 2 new positive2026-10-09: 1 new negative2026-10-10: 2 new positive2026-10-10: 1 new negative2026-10-11: 2 new positive2026-10-12: 4 new positive2026-10-12: 1 new negative2026-10-13: 1 new negative2026-10-14: 2 new positive
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

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

151172026-05-30 — 23 pageviews2026-06-03 — 24 pageviews2026-06-07 — 21 pageviews2026-06-11 — 21 pageviews2026-06-15 — 20 pageviews2026-06-19 — 19 pageviews2026-06-23 — 27 pageviews2026-06-27 — 27 pageviews2026-07-01 — 82 pageviews2026-07-05 — 54 pageviews2026-07-09 — 71 pageviews2026-07-13 — 40 pageviews2026-07-17 — 21 pageviews2026-07-21 — 28 pageviews2026-07-25 — 31 pageviews2026-07-29 — 28 pageviews2026-08-02 — 29 pageviews2026-08-06 — 20 pageviews2026-08-10 — 24 pageviews2026-08-14 — 17 pageviews2026-08-18 — 25 pageviews2026-08-22 — 26 pageviews2026-08-26 — 23 pageviews2026-08-30 — 26 pageviews2026-09-03 — 24 pageviews2026-09-07 — 27 pageviews2026-09-11 — 48 pageviews2026-09-15 — 29 pageviews2026-09-19 — 28 pageviews2026-09-23 — 36 pageviews2026-09-27 — 31 pageviews2026-10-01 — 24 pageviews2026-10-05 — 30 pageviews2026-10-08 — 24 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

84202026-09-30 23:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-01 08:34 — 20 viewers2026-10-01 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 02:34 — 46 viewers2026-10-02 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 20:34 — 225 viewers2026-10-03 05:34 — 60 viewers2026-10-03 14:34 — 93 viewers2026-10-03 23:34 — 31 viewers2026-10-04 08:34 — 22 viewers2026-10-04 17:34 — 25 viewers2026-10-05 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-05 11:34 — 58 viewers2026-10-05 20:34 — 28 viewers2026-10-06 05:34 — 44 viewers2026-10-06 14:34 — 69 viewers2026-10-06 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 08:34 — 9 viewers2026-10-07 17:34 — 19 viewers2026-10-08 02:34 — 29 viewers2026-10-08 11:34 — 40 viewers2026-10-08 20:34 — 36 viewers2026-10-09 05:34 — 14 viewers2026-10-09 14:34 — 70 viewers2026-10-09 23:35 — 31 viewers2026-10-10 08:34 — 43 viewers2026-10-10 17:35 — 13 viewers2026-10-11 02:34 — 51 viewers2026-10-11 11:34 — 10 viewers2026-10-11 20:35 — 2 viewers2026-10-12 05:34 — 43 viewers2026-10-12 14:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-12 23:34 — 12 viewers2026-10-13 08:34 — 12 viewers2026-10-13 17:34 — 13 viewers2026-10-14 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 20:34 — 122 viewers2026-10-14 22:34 — 14 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.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

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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