Backpack Brawl — Hero Battles 12+

Quite Fun!

This game is definitely one of the better games I've seen on the app store for a while. It's got lots of replayability and strategy involved in, which I personally enjoy. There are a few things I'd like to see done to improve the game further; however I understand this game is still being developed and my complaints are quite minor so I won't let it affect my rating. The three things that I think could be changed are:
1. I think a tutorial would be nice, it takes a bit to understand a few of the mechanics. Although based on the comments on some of the other reviews it seems a tutorial is already being worked on!
2. It would be nice if when checking out a recipe you've unlocked, you could see what the full progression of craftable items rather than just the next tier. Like, for example, if you could see that the mallet can be crafted into a brain squasher by clicking on the wooden club. I have bad memory though so maybe this is just a me problem. Again, it's quite minor so it really doesn't affect the rating.
3. A few more classes would be nice for some more variety. Again, I understand this game is still a work-in-progress so its likely more classes will be added in the future.
Despite my complaints I want to reiterate that I think this is a great game and is deserving of the five stars. Keep up the great work, game dev(s)!

Developer Response ,

Thank you for playing!
Look out for this weeks update. There just might be some of the things you mentioned!

Addicting and fun

This is an absolutely well done game. It was so good I had to delete it because I was spending just way too much free time playing it. The gameplay is both simple understand and complex enough to keep you going as you try to learn what combinations work best. The balance of skill/strategy/luck seems to be well done. With the right skill/strategy you’ll be winning most matches and +rating on most games. Every so often you might get some bad draws. Sometimes you’ll get super lucky. On top of all that, it is very f2p friendly. With a lot of these games you find out very quickly you’ll need to succumb to micro transactions if you want any hope of keeping up. Or at the very least keeping engaged with the gameplay. But that hasn’t been the case and iv been playing obsessively for quite a while. So far Iv managed to level up the two free characters to 10. As well as upgrading plenty of non-legendary items a fair amount of times all without buying currency. Iv gotten to emerald ranking and the final stage before deciding to take a break. So I can’t speak to anything beyond that, but so far you can 100% progress and keep Up without spending on micro transactions. Surprised this game isn’t more popular. 10/10

Amazing with a couple flaws

Could not be happier with my experience with the game overall. There are only two major things that I feel are a big detriment to the game going forward. The biggest one is the unique items. They are incredibly important and yet completely imbalanced with some doing nothing and others carrying games on their own. The biggest issue is that you don’t have access to all of them each run. A re-roll would be great but I feel that most of them should be a lot more build opening than just being individual items. The other thing is how while it is great that each character plays so differently, it feels like each character is hard locked to specific builds without much lateral movement. I think the simplest thing would be to add something like an amulet system somewhere around getting a hero to level ten where you can then get an item to allow you to get other characters that are at level tens items. Could be around legendary rarity so that they are rare. Other than these two critiques the game is great.