Right this moment’s new launch trending upward on Steam is Backpack Hero, a complete roguelike about stock administration. You are a literal pack rat, a critter delving right into a dungeon with a giant backpack and a yearning for the traditional and highly effective cheeses held inside. Your actual energy? That packpack is magic, and it will get greater as you defeat enemies, letting you retailer extra objects in ever-puzzlier mixtures for ever-greater outcomes.
Every flip you will have three power, and utilizing objects out of your pack to assault, defend, or buff your self prices power. In the meantime, some objects are free—like potions—or depend on magic stones saved in your bag with them to cost up their magic powers. It is the form of primary gameplay you are accustomed to from roguelike deckbuilding video games equivalent to Slay the Spire, however your complete “deck” is on show always. That makes constructing a combo a bit less complicated and extra intuitive.
I fairly loved the hour I spent with it right this moment, and I particularly appreciated how combos are constructed. I had a hoop of energy that drew from an ever-lengthening line of magic stones. On the identical time, I had a magic dragonfly that buffed weapons it moved subsequent to in my bag, which incentivized me to depart open house for it to fly round in. Others appear to get pleasure from it, as its cracked the highest few hundred video games on Steam with a couple of thousand gamers and is a prime new launch at about 2,200 gamers. You will discover Backpack Hero in Early Entry on Steam.
