
Backpack Raiders is a hybrid survival roguelite + tactical inventory builder where how you arrange your gear is just as important as the gear you choose. Build Your Loadout. Outplay the Swarm. Thrive in the City.
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Decades after a catastrophic event wiped humanity off the map, mutated bugs rose from the ruins and turned entire cities into their hives.
You are a mercenary-for-hire, one of the rare survivors trained to breach the infested city walls and bring back what everyone else fears to touch: bug parts. Valuable, volatile, and vital for making a profit in the new world.


Dash, shoot, blast, or slice your way through escalating swarms in quick waves.
Find weapons, merge upgrades, and create powerful builds as you fight to survive long enough for extraction.
Auto-firing and manual-aim hybrid combat
Runs designed to be quick, chaotic, and endlessly replayable
Hundreds of items and endless synergies

Your backpack is your build.
Every weapon, trinket, attachment, and oddity fits into a grid-based inventory where position, adjacency, and orientation matter.
Discover items with unique shapes and effects
Build insane synergies based on placement
Merge items into new and powerful tools
Pack smarter. Live longer.

Raid the city, earn supplies, and use them between runs to construct buildings that grant permanent, run-boosting upgrades. Place workshops, armories, trading posts, and other specialty structures, each offering powerful bonuses, new unlocks, and stronger starting loadouts.
Expand your outpost and place buildings strategically to create powerful synergies
Unlock new mercenaries and loadouts by constructing specialized housing and facilities
Unlock buildings that allow you to set the difficulty and earn better rewards
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French*, Italian*, German*, Spanish - Spain*, Russian*, Simplified Chinese**languages with full audio support
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 37 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
I mean it´s ok, but way too complex
Would recommend if you like backpack style games combined with bullet-hell!
I love how modular the game design is here; it elevates the survivor-like genre and adds so much more variability. It has that "one more run" mentality
Really fun to try different builds, and spend too much time optimizing and tweaking your backpack. Game feels well balanced and rewarding.
Excellent gameplay loop with plenty of fun and a fairly straightforward game design! The world is charming, and even though I haven't explored all of it yet, it's a very fun game to play through: there is a lot of diversity to be found, from the weapons to the builds and items, and it also has a really endearing appeal to it. It's also very nostalgic in a quite specific way, which slowly crawls back to you as you play more nad more and hit "Next Round" once again; the game has that tiny and sweet yet still manages to feel fresh and more than that...fun. Backpack Raiders' central point is that it's fun to play and let it unravel its game design and logistics behind it - slowly understood by the player. with a nice sense of progression and cute characters, it's worth checking out, I think.
A mix of Brotato with Backpack Hero. There's a bit more context with the base, upgrades, and making it more difficult, so you could go in and try different builds. Definitely haven't seen all the weapons or combos, so there's a bit more continuous content. There's definitely a lot to learn and if you liked the backpack organization of Backpack Hero I think you'll enjoy this game.
It's a fun game to kill some time with, but for people familliar with the roguelike bullet heaven games after getting 1-2 hours in you start to understand its system thoroughly and it becomes very easy to break the entire game, rendering the difficulty non-existant. There is no balance. Life leech is OP. Bounce is OP. ... basically everything becomes OP with some luck. ah right, luck is OP as well. Some additions: I basically managed to get stuck in endless mode because at that point it was impossible to die. with like +1000 range from 5 golden keys that are easily obtainable with enough luck you can stand still and let the game run on itself... eventually my PC even had problems running the game correctly with the amount of stuff on the screen. (4080, i9) The game has potential to grow but in its current state I have to wonder whether I can justify my purchase. The thumbs down is in order for the developer to improve, go earn the thumbs up!
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