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This roguelike is all about inventory TetrisPlay the Backpack Hero demo, it’s great!
Play the Backpack Hero demo, it’s great!
If you’ve ever enjoyed shuffling and rotating items to fit into an inventory grid, do have a play of the free demo forBackpack Hero. It’s a roguelikelike dungeon crawler that’s all about inventory Tetris, filling your knapsack with weapons, armour, and items that can gain powerful bonuses and synergies depending on their placement. It’s an interesting and fluid bit of buildcrafting, and has me excited for the full game next year.
Backpack Hero Kickstarter TrailerWatch on YouTube
Backpack Hero Kickstarter Trailer
You can play the Backpack Hero demo in your browseron Itch.io.
It’s a fairly standard fantasy dungeon crawler at first glance: pick a node on the dungeon map, walk to it, then battle the baddies, buy from the merchant, grab the treasure, or whatever. Combat is turn-based, with your weapons each costing a certain amount of energy (which replenishes each turn), magic wands using mana (which replenishes between fights), your armour giving a little bit of automatic block each turn, and your shield able to add extra block for an energy cost. But it’s all about that inventory Tetris.
A huge damage buff, but I’ll need to rearrange everything yet again? Oh for…
While levelling up will let you pick new squares to expand your grid, you’ll never have enough space for everything you want. So build, plan, compromise, and maybe pivot wildly when a powerful item presents the opportunity for a whole new build.
I’ve always enjoyed the act of inventory Tetris but using it to allow freeform de facto classes, skill trees, and builds is delightful. Backpack Hero really runs with the concept, tying everything into the grid—even some debuffs from enemies come as curse items you need to wedge into your inventory unless you want to take a big lump of damage. It’s great to see an idea pushed to its extremes and become more fun because of it.
Backpack Hero is due to launch in April 2023. For now, you can follow iton Steamand play that demoon Itch.
The developer, Jaspel is runninga Kickstater campaignright now for extra funding to help finish development and add extra features through stretch goals. That’s already well past its initial target, so any extra cash now is just gravy (or mod support, pets, and extra characters).
In my ongoing mission to whittle every thing in video games down until we decide the single best thing, we pittedinventory Tetris against fishing minigames. Youse agreed with me that yes, inventory Tetris is better.
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