Games like Backpack Raiders
If Backpack Raiders is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fading Reel, Iron Rage: Survivor and Pitbound — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Backpack Raiders: Backpack Raiders is a hybrid survival roguelite + tactical inventory builder where how you arrange your gear is just as important as the gear you choose. Build Your Loadout. Outplay the Swarm. Thrive in the City.
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Fading Reel
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Top pick for Backpack Raiders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Raiders.
A sepia Roguelike — lead a chained squad through 22 waves. Map events split your line, milestone recruits add firepower. Linked Blink, run upgrades, 19 Evolutions, and a permanent meta tree carry you to the final Boss Hydra.
Iron Rage: Survivor
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Second-strongest match for Backpack Raiders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Raiders.
Survive hordes of out-of-control industrial machines in this top-down arena auto-shooter. Earn upgrades as you level up, complete objectives to enhance weapons, and unlock modules to return stronger. Drive through gaps between enemies and push through to face powerful bosses.
Pitbound
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Third-strongest match for Backpack Raiders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Backpack Raiders.
Mow down endless hordes of enemies in the arena of this dark cyberpunk survival roguelite. Play as a fully modular robot, snapping together multiple weapons and components to craft your perfect build. Collect powerful items to forge game-breaking synergies and annihilate everything in the Pit.
Super Galaxy Gladiator
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Ranked #4 for Backpack Raiders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Raiders.
Super Galaxy Gladiator is a survivor roguelite focused on buildcrafting and inventory management. Fight waves of enemies, buy and upgrade items mid-run, and arrange your gear to create insane builds and synergies in the galactic arena.
System Cleaner
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Ranked #5 for Backpack Raiders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Raiders.
Bullet heaven meets base building in a survivorslike set inside a broken computer. Fight corrupted files, stack upgrades, and place automated helpers that shoot, shield, repair, collect, and trap while you stay alive.
Flaghead
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Ranked #6 for Backpack Raiders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Backpack Raiders.
Flaghead is an arena shooter roguelite where you play as a country, surviving through history from the dark ages into the cybernetic futures and beyond.
Arms of God
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Ranked #7 for Backpack Raiders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Raiders.
Gear up for a battle through hell in this roguelite Bullet Heaven Arena Autoshooter with Doom-inspired gore vibes, metal music, and a satisfying combat feel. Wield five weapons at once, upgrade and merge them to forge indestructible builds, and bring divine justice to a world on the brink of chaos.
Project GOVNOVOSIS
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Ranked #8 for Backpack Raiders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Raiders.
A fast-paced Bullet Hell roguelike where your "hero" is a heavily armored sewage truck. Drift through thousands of enemies, combine dozens of absurd weapons and passive skills. Upgrade your heavy machinery and survive the shift!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Backpack Raiders at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under Backpack Raiders on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Raiders.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under Backpack Raiders on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Backpack Raiders.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Backpack Raiders on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Backpack Raiders.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under Backpack Raiders on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Backpack Raiders.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~60% under Backpack Raiders on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Backpack Raiders.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~80% under Backpack Raiders on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Backpack Raiders.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
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Priced ~50% under Backpack Raiders on Steam right now. Shares Action with Backpack Raiders.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Backpack Raiders on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Backpack Raiders.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Backpack Raiders.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Raiders.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Raiders.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Backpack Raiders.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Backpack Raiders.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Raiders.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Raiders.
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Frequently asked about Backpack Raiders
- How much does Backpack Raiders cost?
- Backpack Raiders is listed on Steam at 4.95 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Backpack Raiders?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Backpack Raiders are Fading Reel, Iron Rage: Survivor, Pitbound.
- Who developed Backpack Raiders?
- Backpack Raiders was developed by WollemGames.
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