The Adventurer and His Backpack

The Adventurer and His Backpack

疯王子 · September 4, 2017 · Casual, Adventure, Indie, Turn-Based

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Mostly Positive72% · 89 📉 Recent reviews down 41%
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$2.99
lowest tracked $0.89
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The Adventurer and His Backpack price by region

The Adventurer and His Backpack costs $2.19 in Georgia (USD), £2.49 in the United Kingdom, $2.99 in the United States, €2.99 in Europe (EUR), CA$3.89 in Canada, NZ$4.49 in New Zealand, A$4.50 in Australia, R$10.49 in Brazil and zł13.49 in Poland right now.

Cheapest The Adventurer and His Backpack offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $2.19 $2.19 — 1
United Kingdom £2.49 £2.49 — 1
United Statesyour region $2.99 $2.99 — 1
Europe (EUR) €2.99 €2.99 — 1
Canada CA$3.89 CA$3.89 — 1
New Zealand NZ$4.49 NZ$4.49 — 1
Australia A$4.50 A$4.50 — 1
Brazil R$10.49 R$10.49 — 1
Poland zł13.49 zł13.49 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About The Adventurer and His Backpack

This is a turn-based relaxing adventure game with simple controls. You play as an adventurer, bringing a backpack with limited number of slots, who goes on an adventure. You will meet different kinds of monsters, defeat them, strengthen yourself to face stronger monsters. Be the ultimate adventurer!

The Adventurer and His Backpack — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

The Adventurer and His Backpack is criticized by most players as an extremely barebones, poorly constructed clicker game that strips away nearly all interaction typical of RPGs, leaving only menu navigation and basic stat management without meaningful gameplay. Common complaints include severe balance issues that make progression frustrating, a lack of content and depth, and technical shortcomings that fail to meet standard PC gaming expectations. Some players acknowledge the concept has potential and note the game may improve with updates, while others find it passable for idle farming.

Not recommended Jan 7, 2025
"The Adventurer and His Backpack" is a very poorly made, well, my instinct is to call this a browser game because it might as well have been done in HTML. It's a simple menu clicker... imagine an RPG with all the interaction removed, just encounters popping up in front of you in a window. Less going on here than a 1980's console JRPG. It's barely a game! So all you do here is just plug away at RPG stats and a bit of drag and drop inventory management. No moving around or anything... movement is just too complicated for game development in 2017! So this is a very bland barebones RPG system without a game on top of it. Worth avoiding. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals. The game features simple, cartoony 2D graphics, of the type you normally expect to see in low effort mobile apps.…
4 found this helpful
Not recommended Mar 6, 2026
Fun at start, but gets quite boring. Missing lots of stuff init - maybe ill try it later when its more updated.
3 found this helpful
Not recommended Jan 26, 2025
It really is quite bad. What I don't understand is why Steam have allowed this badly crafted game to have trading cards, but a game I published has been waiting years to be granted permission to have trading cards. I'm also disappointed that you can't eat shorts. Although, footwear doesn't come in pairs, which is pretty unique, but it means you always have two left feet. Bizarre.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 25, 2026
The Adventurer and His Backpack is a compact turn-based adventure that builds its identity around survival, inventory limitations, equipment choices, and the constant question of whether an encounter is worth the risk. Developed by 疯王子 and published by CrazyPrince, it carries the unmistakable character of a small independent project. Rather than attempting to deliver an enormous RPG campaign, it concentrates on a repeatable progression loop where careful resource management can be just as important as winning battles. The central adventure revolves around surviving a sequence of increasingly dangerous encounters. Monsters grow stronger as progress continues, meaning equipment that feels adequate early in a run may eventually become insufficient. Combat takes physical and magical attributes into account, with offensive statistics working against their corresponding defenses. Speed is another important consideration because it can influence how encounters unfold and becomes particularly valuable when attempting to escape. The mechanics are relatively easy to understand, but the gradual increase in enemy strength gives players a reason to continually reconsider their equipment and ov…
Not recommended Nov 4, 2022
Too unbalanced, always in the 2 monster I already can't do anything except try to scape. My character always end up dead. I hope that the games does improve since I liked the idea of the game but it is too unbalanced in my gameplays at least.
Recommended Jun 26, 2022
The Adventurer and His Backpack 10/10

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