Backpack Scavenger

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.

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.

Petty much dead. No updates, nothing in the steam forums, lots of bugs and no fixes. Oh well, guess I wasted some money here, thankfully not too much. Stay clear of this one or maybe check for any signs of life before buying this piece of abandoned dogwater.

So you run around and collect items with your backpack to build your base, except, sometimes you don't get the blueprints to build defensive structures, so you are reset to square 1, you pick a traveler with a large backpack, only to have it be glitched and not allow items to be placed in the backpack, waisting your run for mats.

This game is needlessly difficult and tedious for what it is. Calling this game a 'roguelite' is deceptive wording. You keep a stash and build a city in between runs if you succeed, but if you ever die you not only lose your character but you also lose ALL your progress on the city builder. The game starts you off in a small map with no timer and enemies that cant attack you if you dont stand still, but after 5 minutes of that map you are banned from that map and never allowed to go back to it and forced to use a portal machine to go to maps that are 10x more difficult. The lowest difficulty map available at the start has dust clouds that chase you and deal contact damage and never de-aggro until you extract, stone towers that if they hit you once stun lock you until you die, and 75% of the items on the ground are secretly landmines which you have no way of determining because every item is a pile of dust until you extract and identify it. Your character also has no attacks or skills or anything so you just walk around and get ♥♥♥♥ on by enemies and mines and can't do anything to avoid any of it. If you manage to survive all this BS and extract, well theres no healing between runs …

The game is fun has great potential. But it has some bugs that makes it inviable to play. Please fix those bugs devs. It's a great game, and I'll come back to play if you fix them. Bug: After I changed the master volume on settings, on the main menu, I cannot enter my save game anymore. When I tap on slot 1, it doesn't enter the game, it behaves like I didn't click on the slot. I can enter on other slots though, but I don't want to start the game again without the progress I've made. Bug 2: I had a bug in the past that the game was not opening the constructions to add materials to them. I reinstalled the game, and it fixed the bug.