The autobattling head-to-head RPG the place you play stock tetris to construct your character, Bakcpack Battles, launched its Early Entry construct this week. Every spherical you go up in opposition to a construct made by one other participant earlier than hitting up the store to seize a brand new stuff with the gold you have received. It is like PvP however with out the stress of a real-time sport—the particular person you are “taking part in in opposition to” made that construct hours in the past, perhaps.
Backpack Battles first obtained my consideration final fall when its multiplayer demo obtained one thing like 7,000 concurrent gamers one weekend. It is topping these numbers this weekend with a peak of practically 20,000 concurrent gamers—19,775 to be precise.
The neat a part of Backpack Battles is the way you make your character: You sew on new components and pouches to your backpack to be able to change the house obtainable and its form, as a result of every merchandise you add to it synergizes relying on what it is positioned subsequent to. Meals would possibly buff up when subsequent to extra meals, for instance, or a protect is likely to be extra highly effective for each weapon subsequent to it. Gadgets can even mix, to be able to turn out to be extra highly effective or alternate verions of themselves.
The discharge model provides two new lessons: The Berserker and the Pyromancer. The berserker is a weapons-focused rager, whereas the pyromancer will get extra highly effective as she units extra issues inside her pack on hearth. The right launch additionally provides puppies, apparently. Puppies!
You could find Backpack Battles on Steam for $13, although it is 10% off till March 22.
