To sum up my review: The game used to feel like a deckbuilder with a focuse on builds and strategies, but now it's a game about filling a bag with items that are just generally good.

I used to play this game like crack in early access. Like others have mentioned, this game doesn't really play like a deckbuilder. It used to, but the game has changed since early access.

The game used to be about building a bag. You would find key items and build your bag to support them, just like any other deckbuilding games. Find a cool bow early? You would start building a ranger.

The game is now about filling a bag. Items are a lot less impactful than they used to be. It doesn't feel like I'm building a ranger or a mager for instance, everything just feels additive to your bag. It's more about picking items that are good at for the moment.

I mainly play purse. I used to like building a wizard bag, focusing on mana, and using my energy to regen the mana. Now, finding an offensive wand feels impossible. If I end up finding a wand, it usually a utility wand, and like I mentioned before - what used to be something I would look into building around, just ends up being something I add if I have the room. The actual magic items to build around are staves and they don't even use mana offensively.

I am also not a fan on the new relics. In a traditional sense, they feel like curses. They don't feel strong enough to justify their negative effects, so I am often just skipping them. After defeating a boss I should be rewarded with something that will make me feel stronger, not weaker.

The game also has an unnecessary story mode. It just feels so out of place. The gameplay has nothing to do with RPG, and the story/collecting could have been done in the same game interface. It's like if pong had a story mode.

I really wanted to like this game. The game was in a good direction, but it's like it tried hard to just add everything and kind of muddied the waters doing so. It doesn't feel focused anymore.

Yes it can be fun, but... there are some flaws you need to overlook. I'd say this is an 80% good game, but the 20% bad part is almost unforgivably bad.

The one that sealed a thumbs down is a particular run-ending bug in which you suddenly can no longer interact with your items. For a game that centers in clicking/moving items around your backpack, this effectively ends any run you might have been on.

Otherwise, if you read the other negative reviews, I can confirm that I've encountered many of their listed bugs too.

Then there's many quality of life criticisms: What happened to the Temple? Why do town menus/lists get so laggy as you get further into the game? Why do you unlock hundreds of items but only see the same 100 or so during repeated runs? And why did the devs decide to just stop supporting this game while it still had so many issues?

After all of that if you still want to play this game, then yes Backpack Hero CAN be fun, but consider yourself warned.

This game is such a shame. I love this game. But the support is genuinely the worst. I have had a game breaking problem for months now, and all they've told me is to make sure I haven't installed any mods. No one else has ever had this problem before, and they never got back to me with anything useful. This game is great, don't buy it. If something happens, then you don't get to play anymore