Backpack Scavenger

The game is very buggy. The main issue is at the character select screen, where it locks up. You have to reload your save game 3 to 6 times to get it to work. There are also in-game issues, if you can manage to get back into the game. Most of them result in you dying, which sends you back to the non-functional character select screen... All of this makes me very sad, as the initial gameplay loop was a lot of fun. But you get slaughtered in an impossible battle with the undead on the first night, and it's all downhill from there...

Game is a buggy mess and feels like a product of vibe coding. Not even worth 10 dollars because it's literally unplayable. You die in a portal and your game is hardlocked. Congratulations! Sometimes you will "identify" an item and it never shows as an item. You now have an unclickable object in your inventory. You run around and put dusty junk in a backpack. Then eventually monsters come out. You have no means of dodging or fighting them. You just get smacked around and killed. Graphics of a flash game from 2007 with the bugs of a flash game from 2025.

Game is extremely buggy, failed to load screens. Quest descriptors missing. Unplaceable blueprints, You name it. Gave it a shot but till they fix the bugs its a no dawg

Ill give it time to cook and eat my 10 bucks but seriously this game is more broken than pretty much every abandoned early access game.

Interesting twist on the genre, but it definitely still needs a lot of work. As others have mentioned, the new game player select bug is pretty unacceptable. I restarted the game 3 times after after the 4th i refunded. That said, I'm willing to give it another shot in a few months, once some refinements have been made. The resource balance needs some work as well. Debris and some of the other basic resources are a big bottle neck for getting structures built, and the there should probably be some low-level portal location to mass-collect wood/stone/etc.

In Backpack Scavenger, players assume the role of a lone scavenger who joins the fortified city of Bastion, aiding its garrison in the fight against an impending undead horde. Your mission is to scour the battlefield for valuable resources - raw materials, tools, and weapons - to support the defense effort. The battlefield is procedurally generated, filled with traps, environmental hazards, and roaming enemies. Items are often obscured by dust, challenging you to identify them by shape alone—a clever mechanic that blends visual intuition with risk and reward. Inventory management is both strategic and tactile, featuring a grid-based system where space is limited and items can be rotated to fit, Tetris-style. Items are not only stat-randomized but visually distinct, making each scavenging run feel fresh and unpredictable. Back at Bastion, you can expand the stronghold by acquiring blueprints and gathering materials to construct new buildings. These structures unlock crafting options, unit training, or additional storage, deepening your strategic choices. Periodically, Bastion is assaulted by waves of undead. During these sieges, gameplay shifts to a tactical mini-game where you position your units and fortifications—everything you've managed to prepare—in defense of the city. Death isn’t the end. Instead, it propels you into a massive progression tree, reminiscent of a skill tree, where instead of experience points, you complete small quests to unlock new items, buildings, and upgrades for future runs. Narrative-wise, the game keeps things light. A handful of charmingly illustrated NPCs guide you through the world’s mechanics with quick, witty dialogue. The 2D art style leans into a dark comic book aesthetic, reminiscent of Darkest Dungeon, complementing the game's grim yet slightly whimsical tone.

It only takes a moment to learn the mechanics, and then the game becomes incredibly fun. I loved the deep item collection system!

Bardzo fajna gra. Będę do tego tytułu wracał :)

A very nice mix of strategy and rpg!

very nice indie game, desert atmosphere, satisfying items collection, strongly recommend