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Backpack Hero

Jaspel · Pretty Soon · 2023-11-14

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AdventureCasualIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person, Side view

Releases: Jun 11, 2024 (PlayStation 4), Jun 11, 2024 (PlayStation 5), Nov 14, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Nov 14, 2023 (Linux), Apr 03, 2023 (Mac), Apr 03, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The inventory management roguelike! Collect rare items, organize your backpack, and vanquish your foes!

Backpack Hero is an Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG game released in 2023, priced at $9.99, with an owner estimate of 500,000 .. 1,000,000 and a Very Positive review sentiment (86% of 8524 reviews).

127
playing now
86%
positive of 8.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
85/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (25 ratings)
3.90★
PlayStation Store rating (229 ratings)
60h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

127 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Backpack Hero is a roguelike video game developed by Jaspel and published by Jaspel, IndieArk, and Different Tales. It was released in November 2023 for Windows, macOS and Linux and Nintendo Switch. Ports for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, were released on June 11, 2024. Described as an "inventory management roguelike", the gameplay revolves around how well the player organizes their bag, which is based on a grid system similar to the briefcase in Resident Evil 4. Backpack Hero launched to generally positive reception.

Trailer

Backpack Hero trailer thumbnail

Backpack Hero - Launch Trailer - Nintendo Switch

≈428,977 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 127 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 297 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~37/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,334 reviews).
  • · Top 4% of 29,427 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 170k–384k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 8,524 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$9.99-50%
Microsoft Store$13.99-30%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $7.39 at Fanatical (2025-10-31) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 130 of 173 observed days · $2.60 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.2k1.2k20222026Week of 2022-08-01: 863 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 91 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 384 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 178 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 411 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 125 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 228 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 135 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1,156 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 178 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 300 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 233 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

169882026-09-16 05:00 — 105 players2026-09-17 12:00 — 113 players2026-09-18 20:00 — 120 players2026-09-20 03:00 — 155 players2026-09-21 11:00 — 107 players2026-09-22 19:00 — 127 players2026-09-24 02:00 — 128 players2026-09-25 10:00 — 105 players2026-09-26 17:00 — 126 players2026-09-28 01:00 — 132 players2026-09-29 08:00 — 94 players2026-09-30 16:00 — 125 players2026-10-01 23:00 — 95 players2026-10-03 07:00 — 106 players2026-10-04 15:00 — 167 players2026-10-05 22:00 — 137 players2026-10-07 06:00 — 110 players2026-10-08 13:00 — 141 players2026-10-09 21:00 — 130 players2026-10-11 04:00 — 160 players2026-10-12 12:00 — 141 players2026-10-13 20:00 — 132 players2026-10-15 03:00 — 147 players2026-10-15 19:00 — 127 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2.0k130Aug 2022Aug 2026Aug 2022 — avg 1,981 · peak 3,611Oct 2022 — avg 708 · peak 1,304Dec 2022 — avg 395 · peak 596Feb 2023 — avg 628 · peak 1,484Apr 2023 — avg 398 · peak 653Jun 2023 — avg 380 · peak 679Aug 2023 — avg 417 · peak 640Oct 2023 — avg 430 · peak 742Dec 2023 — avg 1,359 · peak 2,682Feb 2024 — avg 599 · peak 940Apr 2024 — avg 424 · peak 865Jun 2024 — avg 297 · peak 689Aug 2024 — avg 334 · peak 663Oct 2024 — avg 440 · peak 855Dec 2024 — avg 300 · peak 524Feb 2025 — avg 285 · peak 430Apr 2025 — avg 264 · peak 391Jun 2025 — avg 235 · peak 367Aug 2025 — avg 197 · peak 278Oct 2025 — avg 153 · peak 231Dec 2025 — avg 172 · peak 246Feb 2026 — avg 211 · peak 334Apr 2026 — avg 148 · peak 209Jun 2026 — avg 142 · peak 195Aug 2026 — avg 130 · peak 208
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$6.992022-08-152026-10-152022-08-15 — best price $15.292023-02-06 — best price $13.592023-10-01 — best price $19.992024-01-25 — best price $15.992024-03-14 — best price $15.992024-05-02 — best price $15.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-09-17 — best price $15.992024-11-13 — best price $12.992025-01-03 — best price $19.992025-02-17 — best price $12.992025-04-01 — best price $12.992025-05-19 — best price $12.992025-07-10 — best price $19.992025-08-01 — best price $19.992025-08-29 — best price $19.992025-09-25 — best price $19.992025-10-26 — best price $19.992025-11-20 — best price $8.492025-12-17 — best price $19.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-03-07 — best price $10.002026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-04-16 — best price $7.992026-05-07 — best price $9.992026-05-22 — best price $19.992026-06-15 — best price $15.082026-07-16 — best price $15.582026-08-04 — best price $7.792026-08-20 — best price $16.042026-09-04 — best price $9.992026-09-14 — best price $19.992026-09-24 — best price $9.992026-10-04 — best price $9.992026-10-14 — best price $9.992026-10-15 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2772026-05-30 — 17 pageviews2026-06-03 — 19 pageviews2026-06-07 — 16 pageviews2026-06-11 — 11 pageviews2026-06-15 — 15 pageviews2026-06-19 — 13 pageviews2026-06-23 — 18 pageviews2026-06-27 — 16 pageviews2026-07-01 — 23 pageviews2026-07-05 — 17 pageviews2026-07-09 — 19 pageviews2026-07-13 — 19 pageviews2026-07-17 — 12 pageviews2026-07-21 — 9 pageviews2026-07-25 — 12 pageviews2026-07-29 — 15 pageviews2026-08-02 — 16 pageviews2026-08-06 — 10 pageviews2026-08-10 — 10 pageviews2026-08-14 — 18 pageviews2026-08-18 — 14 pageviews2026-08-22 — 17 pageviews2026-08-26 — 17 pageviews2026-08-30 — 17 pageviews2026-09-03 — 17 pageviews2026-09-07 — 18 pageviews2026-09-11 — 14 pageviews2026-09-15 — 11 pageviews2026-09-19 — 14 pageviews2026-09-23 — 14 pageviews2026-09-27 — 14 pageviews2026-10-01 — 12 pageviews2026-10-05 — 7 pageviews2026-10-09 — 12 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

35
achievements tracked
63.1%
earned "Prada's Locket"
19.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam WorkshopSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

18 supported languages: English, German, Czech, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Turkish, Japanese…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2022-08-24 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)7,5134%35
PS5 (PlayStation)3229%36
Xbox One (Xbox)1134%35
Switch (Nintendo)640%0
PS4 (PlayStation)5212%36
PS4 (PlayStation)0—36

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

2DCasualFantasyBuildingStrategyRogue-likeRogue-liteTurn-BasedDeckbuildingReplay Value

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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