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Shop for shaped gear, fit it into a backpack to trigger item synergies, then watch your build auto-battle other players.
Released 13 Jun 2025
Fit Items Like Tetris
Craft Stronger Gear
Build Item Synergies
A PvP inventory management auto battler! Buy and craft powerful items, then carefully arrange them in your backpack.
Developed by PlayWithFurcifer · Published by IndieArk, Shochiku (Japan)
You build a character's combat setup by managing the items in their backpack. Choose from seven classes, each with five subclasses, and shape your strategy around the items available.
Between battles, spend gold in the shop and arrange items of different shapes and sizes in your bag. Placement and item interactions create synergies, while combining items can produce stronger equipment, weapons, and potions.
Your completed setup fights other players' builds in automated battles. Play ranked or unranked matches, adjust rules in custom games, or join timed lobbies to face friends and other players.
Players often enjoy the spatial puzzle of arranging a backpack and experimenting with item combinations, describing the build possibilities as varied and rewarding to discover. The asynchronous, low-pressure pace also appeals to players who want to pause or play casually. Some reviews criticize ranked matchmaking and balance, while others find shop randomness and the amount of item and placement knowledge frustrating.
Buy rare and legendary items and organize them to make powerful builds.
Then battle other players with it!
In Backpack Battles, you fight with your backpack full of items. It matters what you buy, and especially how you place it! The smarter you place your items, the stronger you will be!
Items come in different shapes, sizes, prices, and rarities. Combine them into even stronger equipment.
Brew a powerful potion, craft a legendary weapon, or hatch a dragon friend!
There are over 500 different items to choose from!
Face the builds of other players in different game modes:
Unranked: Low pressure without timers
Ranked: Gain points against equal opponents, but still at your own pace
Custom rules: Play unranked but change gold, maximum health, and more
Lobbies: Match friends or streamers live with a timer!
See what they came up with, and counter them.
Pick one of 7 classes depending on your play style, each of them with 5 subclasses!
Do you want heavy crits or poison damage over time? Or squirrels?
| Platforms | Windows, Linux |
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| Achievements | 230 |
| Age ratings |
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| Players | 2 |
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| Multiplayer | Backpack Battles supports online asynchronous PvP. Players fight automated battles against saved or ghost builds from other players rather than live opponents. Ranked, unranked, custom rules, and friend/streamer lobbies are mentioned, and runs can be paused and resumed. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No multiplayer mod support or mod-related multiplayer features are mentioned. |
| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |
