Backpack Hero

Backpack Hero is an Indie Roguelike Dungeon Crawler with good item variety and quite a few mechanics, introduced slowly over time as to not overwhelm new players. While I would like to give it a recommended review, I can't due to a number of factors. First are the bugs. I ran into one major issue of whenever one transforms the Shoe Hat, it completely locks them out of any interactivity other than moving on the map and the options / exit menu. This is especially annoying if you transformed it in the middle of combat, as your only recourse will be to quit to the menu and reset to your last auto / manual save. This has apparently been an issue since 2023. Another bug features the Keg(?) item that spawns other items. If you have a full inventory when combat starts, spawn a drink in using the Keg, take an item out so you have space, and put a drink in where it was... It'll be instantly destroyed when you drink it. Which is a huge negative for a Bomb run. Second is the UI. While it's fine most of the time, there's some noticeab;e issues. For instance, in town you can't see how many resources you're creating unless you're in build mode. In addition if an item is disabled, there's no big red "x" over it or anything of the like. If you accidentally put two incompatible items beside each other in that massive backpack, you often won't find out until combat. While that does add difficulty, it's not a fun sort. Finally, town design, I had several minor compounding issues with it. Being unable to scroll around the map unless you're in Build Mode, so that you're unable to move. If you select any Build item or the Destroy button, you have to right click to cancel the action; this kicks you out of build mode entirely for Builds, but not Destroy. You also get an overwhelming amount of Food production specifically; Treasure and Building Materials are far harder to come by becoming the major limiting factors, especially Building Materials. And while the NPCs are all very well designed and cute, the game incentivizes placing buildings very close together to save on resource cost, which can make swarms of them that are difficult to navigate through manually, There is a button in the bottom left to pathfind to specific NPCs, which *does* highlight NPCs with active quests... But it doens't state their names or roles and nearly blacks out their portraits if they *don't* have a currently ongoing quest, so it can be quite hard to find a specific NPC to talk to (like the Librarian or Schoolteacher) even then. Overall I'd say Backpack Hero has great game design, characters, and a fulfilling sense of progression, However, the multiplicity of small issues that keep popping up make me unable to reccomend it, more than what I wrote here for the sake of... some semblance of brevity. If they improved on some of these elements I could reccommend it in earnest, but at current time, shall not.

セール1,384円 面白い、ストーリーモード実装前に沢山プレイしてしまったので。実績解除は無駄足が多く、面倒だった。初見なら良かったかも。イベントフラグを日本語で解説している人がいなくてチャットGPTに聞いたら教えてくれてました。

It goes in the square hole

Очень много багов, очень плохое описание предметов, нечитабельный интерфейс.

Overall an excellent and very enjoyable game. Fun mechanics, interesting and engaging gameplay loop, and excellent music. It does, however, severely lack polish, which would preclude me from justifying paying full price for it. It still possesses a set of glaringly bad and consistent bugs that should have been noticeable enough to be caught during quality control. For example: - One of the main buildings in Story Mode is impossible to unlock properly without following a highly convoluted step-by-step process involving downloading Steam repos. - If you reload a save (for example, if you had to close the game in the middle of a run to deal with a bug) certain rooms become bugged or inaccessible in dungeons. - If you have too many effects that activate on Turn Start, and the enemy dies during its turn due to status effects like poison, the "Victory" screen can get stuck superimposed over the "Combat" screen, forcing you to close and re-open the game or abandon the run. - The Skip button doesn't work in the Credits even after watching the entire thing, so I had to close the game and re-open it to continue. This didn't severely hamper my enjoyment of the game but it did force me to use the Debug Mode pretty regularly. The ending is also very rushed and disappointing - the final boss is exceedingly easy, there's no special dungeon or events leading up to it, and it didn't even have a unique music track. The credits don't have unique music either. There was a noticeable point at which everything seemed to suddenly stop having effort put into it, and dialogue from the characters starts becoming short and strictly informational. It's a shame because this game has the potential to be up there alongside some of my favorite Indie games, but it just didn't receive the care and dedication it needed to be properly polished and given a final release.

The game has plenty of content to keep you entertained, but its also been abandoned in a buggy state. So I cant recommend it in good faith.

ビジュアルも操作感も昔の洋ゲーみたいだ。 レトロなノリを狙って作ってるのかも知れないが。 ゲームを進めるヒントが提示されないのには困った。 延々と同じクエストを周回するハメになってしまいました。 不親切なところまで昔風の洋ゲーじゃダメだってばよ。