Games Like Backpack Survivors

Backpack Survivors

Fight off swarms of monsters, fill your backpack with various weapons and items and battle your way through powerful bosses! Each run is different as you level up your character and unlock new weapons, items and relics. Improve your strength by using a powerful talent tree or change your subclass.

★ HORDECORE ★ BONERAISER MINIONS ★ VAMPIRE SURVIVORS ★ ACHILLES: SURVIVOR ★ GUNLOCKED ★ CONQUEST DARK ★ MEGABONK ★ KARATE SURVIVOR ★ ASCEND TO ZERO ★ SOULSTONE SURVIVORS ★ CHOO CHOO SURVIVOR ★ PICAYUNE DREAMS ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Boneraiser Minions

96% 👍 OF 5.4K
About This Game

Amass an army of undead to fight endless waves of heroes intent to end your boneraising ways! In this gothic auto-battler rogue-lite Survivor-like, use the bones of slain heroes to raise your minions, collect relics and spells, and unlock meta upgrades, all to survive King Gigald's crusade!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …merge and evolve multiple minions into completely different monsters, like a piston guy and a knight becoming a witch, then a shockwave-firing shark.
  • …make the run harder on purpose by empowering enemy factions so you get more bones and better rewards when you survive.
  • …play hidden bonus modes, including a full card game and a mode where you keep looping runs after beating the king with your minions intact.
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Vampire Survivors

98% 👍 OF 136K
About This Game

Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …fight a giant praying mantis while 10,000 skeletons pack the screen around you.
  • …turn into the bullet hell: you only move while your weapons auto-fire until the screen is pure lasers and explosions.
  • …stack golden eggs to turn even the weakest character into a ridiculous monster.
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Achilles: Survivor

82% 👍 OF 1.7K
About This Game

Thousands of enemies. One survivor. Fight like a demigod, build deadly defenses, and grow stronger after every run in this fast-paced bullet heaven set in mythic Greece.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Turrets Mid-Run
  • …Mine Stone for Defenses
  • …Forge Power Evolutions
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Gunlocked

86% 👍 OF 517
About This Game

A twin stick shooter without the twin stick, Gunlocked is a sci-fi action roguelike about careful positioning and upgrade selection. Manage unique targeting systems across multiple weapons and upgrades, as you battle legions of alien ships, and then do it all over again!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Dodge With Auto-Fire
  • …Mix Weapon Synergies
  • …Choose Seven Pilots
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Conquest Dark

90% 👍 OF 2.7K
About This Game

Experience an ARPG's rapid ascension to power in minutes, packed with savage, survivors-like action and devastating sword & sorcery combat. Perfect your builds through Dark Ritual runs that will decide humanity's future as you battle endless hordes across haunting ruins and cursed kingdoms.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …build-stack into effective immortality until bosses can't kill you fast enough, and leave a ritual running for hours.
  • …mix a base class and origin to make hybrids like a two-handed Barbarian with Ricochet Shot.
  • …start as a feeble grunt, then hit godlike power in minutes.
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Megabonk

94% 👍 OF 106K
About This Game

Smash your way through endless waves of enemies and grow absurdly powerful! Grab loot, level up, unlock characters and upgrade to create unique and crazy builds as you fend off hordes of creatures!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …bunny hop, slide down cliffs, use enemy knockback as a boost, and chain so much speed you're basically flying around the map.
  • …roll boulders into enemies, knock over towers, and use ramps and cliffs as part of the fight.
  • …push a movement build so fast the game can crash from the speed.
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Karate Survivor

85% 👍 OF 3.4K
About This Game

Become a martial arts master in this survivor-like roguelite inspired by action movies of the ‘80s. Use your fists, feet, and the environment to fight off relentless thugs. Master powerful combos, enhance your skills, and remember: everything around you is a weapon!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Six-Move Combos
  • …Use Props as Weapons
  • …Dodge Through Furniture
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Soulstone Survivors

91% 👍 OF 26K
About This Game

Face the Lords of the Void and their endless minions, collect their Soulstones and become a god! In this Action Roguelite, unveil secret spells, craft mighty weapons, unlock multiple characters, discover game-breaking synergies and conquer the power of the void.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …stack 15 negative statuses onto enemies in half a second, then watch them trigger each other into a chain reaction.
  • …swap to a different weapon mid-run and keep all your progress.
  • …push into endless modes where new Lords spawn faster and harder, sometimes appearing the moment the last one dies.
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Choo Choo Survivor

85% 👍 OF 593
About This Game

Drive your train to safety while shooting down endless hordes of zombies blocking your way. Upgrade your weapons and abilities and become absurdly powerful!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Arm Your Train
  • …Reverse Along Tracks
  • …Build Weapon Layouts
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Picayune Dreams

99% 👍 OF 4.7K
About This Game

Picayune Dreams is a roguelike blend of bullet heaven horde survival, and bullet hell gameplay. Adrift across the endless void, you must fend off thousands of nightmarish and otherwordly creatures. Uncover a mysterious and surreal story. And don't forget. You mu [TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED...]

Player reviews say you can…

  • …turn every hit into loot as enemy damage numbers chip off into experience you physically pick up.
  • …hit a button to double the game speed mid-run whenever you want.
  • …get so overpowered in Endless mode that you can choose to end the run by killing yourself, triggering an ending about dying of boredom.