When does Backpack Battles get good?

Hooks you almost right away. In the first 2 hours 1 in 6 reviews are negative (16%); after 20h it's 1 in 9 (11%). The opening is criticised less than in 80% of games we track.

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Backpack Battles

Jun 13, 2025 Steam: Very Positive

Hooks you almost right away

Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3

Started playing 48% of owners

Steam reviews 91% positive of 20,810

What the data shows

In the first 2 hours 1 in 6 reviews are negative (16%); after 20h it's 1 in 9 (11%).
The opening is criticised less than in 80% of games we track.
The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
Only 48% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.

When it gets good

Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.

before it gets good opening up fully opened up

Based on all 20,913 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 37.7h for positive, 124.2h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.

Where players quit

Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (48.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.

This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.

All achievements (230)

story milestone ending side

My Treasure Buy a Treasure item 100%
Untouchable End a fight with full health 98%
Honk! Go out of stamina 10 times during a single fight 95%
A True Hero Craft a Hero Sword 91%
Close One! End a fight with 1 health 86%
Barbecue Season Craft a Burning Coal 81%
Buff End a fight with 100 buffs 79%
Can Touch, Will Hurt. Craft a Spiked Shield 77%
Praise Shell! Craft a Shell Totem 75%
Coal on a Stick Craft a Torch 75%
Archmage Win a fight with 8 Magic items 74%
Give me Your Strongest Potion! Craft a Strong Health Potion 72%
Big Pockets Have 30 gold at once 71%
A Valued Customer Craft a Platinum Customer Card 67%
I Dig It! Craft a Shovel 66%
Most Heroic Banana Juice Craft a Strong Heroic Potion 66%
You'll Get It Some Day Reserve an item for 3 rounds 65%
Catch 'em All! Win a fight with items from 4 different classes 63%
Don't Hurry, Be Happy Craft Shelly 62%
Sheep Unite! Craft a Shepherd’s Crook 61%
Stylish Unlock an outfit in the wardrobe 61%
Never Sits Right Craft a Cap of Discomfort 60%
Blueberry Juice Craft a Mana Potion 60%
Buy Me More Jewelery Win a fight with 10 Gemstones 59%
The Buttercutter Craft a Molten Dagger 59%
I Am Cooking Win a fight with 8 Foods 57%
Shoot With Caution Craft a Tusk Poker 57%
Does It Bleed? Craft a Bloody Dagger 57%
Give Me Everything Empty the whole shelf 57%
Warm Hands Craft a Burning Sword 56%
Your Hands Feel Cold... Craft Vampiric Gloves 56%
Multiwielding Win a fight with 4 Weapons that use stamina 56%
An Even Truer Hero! Craft a Hero Longsword 56%
I'm a Wizard! Craft a Magic Staff 55%
Whoa, Portable Fire! Craft a Burning Torch 55%
My Lucky Charm Craft a Lucky Piggy 54%
Uuuuh, Spooky Ghostly Dagger Thingy. Craft a Spectral Dagger 53%
Piggy Smash! Craft a Bunch of Coins 52%
Marvelous Creature Craft a Paradise Birb 52%
Pacifist Win a fight without a weapon 52%
Let Your Anger Out Craft Dragon Claws 52%
Sip From the Mana Fountain Craft a Manathirst 52%
Magical Gal Craft a Prismatic Wand 51%
Sun Protection Craft a Sun Armor 50%
The Bringer of Ick Craft a Poison Dagger 50%
Dubious Vines Craft Bloodthorne 50%
I'm Not a Cat, I'm a Wolverine! Craft Claws of Attack 50%
Ethically Sourced Dragon Skin Craft a Dragonscale Armor 50%
For the Trees! Survive as Ranger 50%
May Nibble You Craft a Vampiric Armor 49%
By the Power of the Moon! Craft a Moon Armor 49%
Hey, My Sword...! Craft a Steel Goobert 49%
Just Stylish Craft Dragonskin Boots 49%
My Lucky Bow Craft Fortuna's Hope 48%
Only Looky, No Licky Craft a Poison Frog 47%
That Was Magical! Survive as Mage 47%
Not Actually From the Moon Craft a Moon Shield 47%
You Are The King? Craft a King Crown 47%
Shiny Shiny Craft a Lantern Berry 47%
A Taste For Blood Craft a Blood Goobert 47%
Plaguebringer End a fight with 100 debuffs on your opponent 47%
A Bad Influence Craft a Corrupted Armor 46%
Burn! Burn Everything! Survive as Pyromancer 46%
I Bring Pandamonium! Craft a Pandamonium 46%
Shiny Plate Craft a Sun Shield 46%
Bad For the Neck Craft a Stone Helm 45%
Shopping Spree Buy 1000 items 45%
And It's Gone Reroll away a skill or subclass 45%
Lizard Friend Craft an Obsidian Dragon 44%
It seems Fine Tho. Craft a Heart of Darkness 44%
Senior Sand Craft Sir Sand 44%
That Might Be Poisonous Survive as Reaper 44%
Hermes Craft Winged Boots 43%
Let's Go On an Adventure! Survive as Adventurer 43%
Azor Ahoi? Craft a Burning Blade 43%
Endless Riches Craft a Box of Prosperity 43%
Tastes Like Tomato Craft a Vampiric Potion 43%
It's Drippin'! Craft a Molten Spear 43%
Am I a Ninja Now? Craft a Katana 43%
Roped Into Something Craft a Rope 43%
Can I Eat It? Can It Eat Me? Craft a Red Orchid Collar 43%
With Even More Toxins! Craft a Strong Pestilence Flask 42%
Bananarang! Craft a Boomerang 42%
A Bit Uncomfortable Craft Stone Shoes 41%
Overflowing Have 30 items in the storage at once 41%
It's So Heavy Craft a Stone Armor 41%
Behold, Falcons May Wield This. Craft a Falcon Blade 41%
Holds Everything! (Conditions Apply) Craft a Holdall 40%
Go Berserk! Survive as Berserker 40%
It Burns Twice Craft a Chili Goobert 40%
Turning Into Stone Can Be a Good Thing Craft a Strong Stone Skin Potion 39%
Keeping It Cool Craft an Ice Armor 38%
Biting Cold Craft a Frostbite 38%
Sliding Defense Craft a Frozen Buckler 38%
Never Taste It. Craft a Doom Cap 38%
Icy Vegetation Craft an Ice Flower 37%
Join the Dark Side! Craft a Darksaber 37%
I'm the Library! Win a fight using 4 different types of Books 37%
Hit 'em again! Craft Fortuna's Grace 37%
Mirror Mirror on the Wall Craft a Cold Mirror 36%
Solvent Swine Craft a Piggy of Riches 36%
The King of the Kitchen Craft an Eggscalibur 36%
Never Trust It Craft a Flame Whip 35%
Faster Than Expected, But Still Slow Craft a Turbo-Shelly 35%
That's Great Sage Craft a Blue Sage Collar 35%
At Least He Likes It Craft a Poison Goobert 35%
Shiny Slimy Craft a Light Goobert 35%
Twice the Axe Craft a Double Axe 35%
A Good Old Physical Barrier Craft a Spiked Wall 35%
Oh, My Dagger Rang Craft a Daggerang 35%
By the Power of the Cupcake! Craft a Cupcake Staff 33%
Electrolytes! Craft a Thornbloom 33%
I Bet You Feel Cool Now Craft a Snow Stick 33%
Heroic Protection Craft a Hero Shield 32%
Train Your Arms Craft Gloves of Power 32%
It Loves the Shade Craft a Death Lotus 32%
Do Not Divide by this Blade Craft a Null Blade 32%
A toast to toast! Craft a Slice of Toast 32%
Family Treasure Craft a Chain Whip 31%
Hey Lily Craft a White Lily Collar 31%
Now Even Worse! Craft a Strong Demonic Flask 31%
Filthspewer 2000 Craft Belladonna's Shade 30%
Treasure Hunter Win a fight with 3 Treasure items 30%
Potion Master Win a fight using 6 Potions 29%
Gigacharged Emit 10 charges in a single fight 29%
Your defense is garlacking. Craft Stankus’ Toothpick 29%
He looks so healthy. Craft a Broccoli Goobert 29%
I Built You! Craft a Stone Golem 29%
Someone Said Vegetable Soup? Craft a Rat Chef 29%
Energy, the source of my power! Craft a Generator 28%
Protected Pupper! Craft an Armored Wisdom Puppy 28%
Puppy Power! Craft an Armored Power Puppy 28%
Venomous Poker Craft a Poison Spear 28%
Intimidation Tactics Craft a Busted Blade 28%
Ready for Barking! Craft an Armored Courage Puppy 28%
Snekk Stick Craft a Serpent Staff 27%
Hey Lady, Your Greatsword is Melting Craft a Molten Greatsword 26%
Hungry Hungry Sphere Craft a Devouring Sphere 26%
Caw! Craft a Crow 26%
Tripple Bow Technique Win a fight using 3 different Bows 26%
Now New, With All the Colors! Craft a Prismatic Sword 26%
Souped up and ready to go! Craft a Boiling Pot 26%
A Symbol of Great Eyesight Craft a Carrot Goobert 25%
My Little Cupcake Craft a Cupcake Goobert 24%
I Totally Work Here Craft an Employee Uniform 24%
Cross the Blades! Craft Crossblades 24%
Better Whetter Craft an Improved Whetstone 24%
Pure Steelyness! Craft an Essence of Steel 23%
We Call Him Robby. Craft a Squirrel Archer 23%
Shootin' Thornies Craft a Tusk Piercer 23%
The Coolest Craft a Snowmaster 23%
Natural Defense Craft a Pine Protector 23%
Cheesy Craft a Cheese Goobert 22%
Pray to the Spear Craft a Holy Spear 22%
Enter Hyper-Hedgehog Form! Craft a Hyper Hedgehog 21%
Even the Bow is Poisonous Craft Belladonna's Whisper 21%
Completely AutoNOM Craft an Eat-o-matic 20%
Rawr! Win a fight with 8 items improving Battle Rage 20%
Post Match Analysis Play a history match 20%
Holy Drinking Craft a Strong Divine Potion 19%
Bow To The King Craft a King Goobert 19%
Mix between cop-robot and man-bat. Craft a Mecha Bat 19%
Fancy Blue Light Craft a Magic Torch 19%
I love you too, shield! Craft a Heart Shield 19%
Mother of Dragons Win a fight with 4 different Dragons 19%
Oh Blazing Beak! Craft an Enraged Phoenix 18%
Perfection Survive with 5 tries left 18%
Trust me, I'm an engineer! Survive as Engineer 17%
A good engagement ring (with the right stats) Craft a Superior Ring 17%
Poke it -> Die Craft a Wand of Dissonance 17%
I can fix that Craft a Wrench 17%
FIREBALL! Craft a Staff of Fire 17%
Impressive But Impractical Craft a Gold Armor 17%
A Massive B Craft an Impractically Large Bloodthorne 16%
The Powerful Dragon Knight Craft a Dragon Knight 16%
Alternative Crossblades Craft Scissorswords 16%
S.I.T. routine enabled! Craft a Shovel-B01 3000 16%
Sale! Have 5 items on sale at the same time 16%
It's Time For a C-C-C-Cardgame! Win a fight with a Card chain of at least length 8 15%
Doubleburn? Secondary Scorch? Twinferno? Craft a Blazing Spear 15%
Pig Farmer Win a fight with 5 Piggies 15%
Massive Brainacle Craft a Cap of Brilliance 15%
Good 'ol axe on a stick Craft a Halberd 15%
Quick, use Thunderthingy! Craft a Thunder Drake 15%
Mana Hydraulics Craft a Magitecc Armor 15%
Who SAW that coming? Craft a Chainsaw 15%
Amulet Addict Win a fight with 5 identified amulets 14%
Summon the Spirits of Crit Craft a Critwood Staff 14%
Mana for everybody! Craft Arcane Boots 14%
Like love, but the other way around. Craft a Staff of Unhealing 14%
Bloodsucker Win a fight with 8 Vampiric items 14%
Manananananananananananananananana Craft a Mananana 14%
The Longest Spear (Allegedly) Craft a Very Long Spear 13%
Thor, the God of Bonking Craft Thor’s Hammer 13%
Not for Breakfast Craft a Toast Goobert 13%
One With the Woods Craft a Forest Dragon 13%
Do you...smell that? Craft a Poison Grenade 13%
Big Red Number Crit for more than 300 damage 13%
Let's Go Clubbing Craft a Spiked Staff 13%
Eater of Souls Craft a War Scythe 12%
Potential energy is the best energy Craft a Spring Loader 12%
Reset Recombobulate 8 items at once 11%
It's Cozy Up There Craft a Jynx Staff 11%
Zap! Zap! ZOP! Craft a Lightning Staff 11%
Hah! The toast is a lie! Craft a Con-Trap-Tron 11%
Staring Contest Win a fight after 45 seconds 11%
Throws everything Craft a Stuff-Throwinator 11%
Hard Skin, Soft Heart Craft a Panzer Dragon 11%
What a Massive... Surprise! Craft a Ruby Chonk 10%
Manazort Combine!!! Craft an Automanaton 10%
Bluberry Smoothie Craft a Strong Mana Potion 9.9%
Smells Like Iron Craft a Strong Vampiric Potion 9.7%
All the vitamin K! Craft a Broccotree 9.3%
I Have Friends! Start a lobby match 9.3%
Dicemaster Play 50 games with a random character 8.9%
Rushdown Win a fight in less than 3 seconds 8.9%
Lord Ribbiton of Schwamp Craft a Frog Prince 8.5%
A Rare Breed Craft an Ice Dragon 8.1%
Sugarbreath!! Craft a Cupdrake 7.9%
Shopping Addict Buy 10000 items 7.9%
All the lumens! Craft an Electric Torch 7.4%
Nice Goobs! Craft Rainbow Goobert Megasludge Alphapuddle 5.6%
Taste the Rainbow! Craft Rainbow Goobert Omegaooze Primeslime 5.0%
Chili-flavored Rainbow Craft Rainbow Goobert Epicglob Uberviscous 4.8%
Rainbow Rage! Craft Rainbow Goobert Deathslushy Mansquisher 4.1%
B-B-B-BROCCOLIENERGY! Craft Rainbow Goobert Gigabrocolomega 3.5%
Bibidi Babedi Boo - Goo! Craft Rainbow Goobert Omnicolor Sugargoo 3.1%
Hey, those cost money! Destroy something in the shop. 3.1%
Delicious Prismacrust Craft Rainbow Goobert Fluffyloaf Prismacrust 2.5%
You Are Winner Win 10000 trophies 1.7%

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