Backpack Hero

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Backpack Hero

Short description

The inventory management roguelike! Collect rare items, organize your backpack, and vanquish your foes!

Developer
Jaspel
Publisher
IndieArk, Pretty Soon
Release
Tue, Nov 14, 2023
Price
$19.99
Reviews
7,395
Positive
86%
Followers
32,494
Owners (estimated)
500K – 1M
Concurrent players
248
Genres
Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, Strategy
Features
Full controller support, Steam Workshop
Tags
Replay Value Turn-Based Inventory Management Roguelike Deckbuilder Deckbuilding 2D Fantasy Rogue-like Strategy Building Choices Matter Turn-Based Strategy Casual Rogue-lite Procedural Generation Singleplayer Card Battler Controller Female Protagonist Moddable
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$9msomewhere between $9m and $10.7m · roughly 500K–592K copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $18.08, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $19.99 launch price. That is 10% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

4 data points since Aug 12, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$9m → ~$9m
Reviews 7,395 → 7,395
Followers 32,493 → 32,494
Concurrent players 248 → 248
Price $19.99 → $19.99
Positive reviews 86.0% → 86.0%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 120 further data points reach back to Aug 1, 2022 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $9.99 on Jun 27, 2025.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around Backpack Hero is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Replay Value + Turn-Based + Inventory Management

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Similar games that found an audience

Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with Backpack Hero. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.

Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
Slay the Spire Slay the Spire Mega Crit 2 titles 3 − Replay Value − Inventory Management − 2D + Card Game + Card Battler + Rogue-like $24.99 192,675 97% Wed, Jan 23, 2019 $175m
$101m – $202m
Commander Quest Commander Quest Flyway Games, Inc. 5 titles 3 − Turn-Based − Inventory Management − 2D + War + Card Game + Strategy $11.99 2,792 75% Fri, Apr 04, 2025 $1m
$577k – $1m
Cat God Ranch Cat God Ranch CrazyPotato Studio first game 3 − Turn-Based − Inventory Management − 2D + Card Battler + Casual + Rogue-like $9.99 1,818 93% Thu, Sep 12, 2024 $742k
$454k – $907k
Guild of Dungeoneering Ultimate Edition Guild of Dungeoneering Ultimate Edition Gambrinous 4 titles 3 − Replay Value − Inventory Management − 2D + Rogue-like + RPG + Card Game $19.99 1,739 77% Tue, Jul 14, 2015 $1.2m
$528k – $7.6m
Aotenjo Aotenjo XO Cat first game 3 − Turn-Based − Inventory Management − 2D + Strategy + Resource Management + Card Game $9.99 957 87% Sun, Jan 19, 2025 $395k
$184k – $459k

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