Games like Backpack Scavenger
If Backpack Scavenger is your kind of game, the closest matches are Panda's Village, Dungeon Survivors and FALL — 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 Scavenger: A Roguelike game with Strategy and RPG elements. Play as a scavenger to collect items on the ancient battlefield for local Bastion. Build buildings, craft items and repel the siege of the undead army. Rich progression and high replayability based on roguelike systems.
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Steam players who put hours into Backpack Scavenger also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Panda's Village
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Top pick for Backpack Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Scavenger.
Panda's Village is a real-time strategy and survival game, where you build and upgrade houses, defenses, and stores, fight fierce monkeys, purchase and upgrade weapons and magic and customize your panda. Your goal is to save the village's Capitol at all costs! If you die, you start over.
Dungeon Survivors
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Second-strongest match for Backpack Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Scavenger.
Dungeon Survivors is a top-down fantasy roguelite where you can use your class abilities to fight off a horde of fantasy monsters. Choose from a variety of abilities and items to create unique builds and survive with 1-4 players.
FALL
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Third-strongest match for Backpack Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Scavenger.
In the past, the world was almost invaded by zombies.You will play the commander of the remaining survivor camp, searching for hope for the last surviving companions, forming and assigning your special police squad to explore this post-apocalyptic world filled with zombies!
The Lost Village
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Ranked #4 for Backpack Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Backpack Scavenger.
Once there was a prosperous village of Martials, now none of it remains. As the son of the former Master, you will lead your followers to rebuild this village. Recruit followers and enter the mysterious illusional domain, acquire lost wonders. Will you see the rebirth of ancestors’ glory again?
FatalZone
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Ranked #5 for Backpack Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Scavenger.
FatalZone is an auto shooter with roguelike and RPG elements set in a savage world of zombies. Exterminate zombie hordes, collect resources, upgrade your camp, and level up mercenaries. Humanity must survive at any cost!
Neon Echo
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Ranked #6 for Backpack Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Scavenger.
Neon Echo is a 3D side-scrolling action Roguelite game with an anime and tech-wear style. In a world that has been corrupted by "noise", "electronic music" has become the only means to resist the power of "Strepification". Now, let's follow the beat of electronic music to fight!
Godrop
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Ranked #7 for Backpack Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Scavenger.
One level of warning, cosmic droplet rampage! A roguelike game featuring impact piercing. Collect holy relics, build up your energy, and morph the droplets to invade the solar system and destroy the ignorant human fleet to the ground!
Has-Been Heroes
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Ranked #8 for Backpack Scavenger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Scavenger.
Has-Been Heroes is a challenging, lane-based roguelike game of strategy and action, featuring a band of heroes on a quest to escort the King's twin princesses to school!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Backpack Scavenger at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Backpack Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Backpack Scavenger.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Backpack Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Scavenger.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~55% under Backpack Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Action with Backpack Scavenger.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under Backpack Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Backpack Scavenger.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under Backpack Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Backpack Scavenger.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Backpack Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Scavenger.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Backpack Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Scavenger.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Backpack Scavenger on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Scavenger.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Backpack Scavenger.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Scavenger.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Scavenger.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Backpack Scavenger.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Dota 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Backpack Scavenger.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
Unturned
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Scavenger.
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
Path of Exile
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Backpack Scavenger.
You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you. Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. The game is completely free and will never be pay-to-win.
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Frequently asked about Backpack Scavenger
- How much does Backpack Scavenger cost?
- Backpack Scavenger is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Backpack Scavenger?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Backpack Scavenger are Panda's Village, Dungeon Survivors, FALL.
- Who developed Backpack Scavenger?
- Backpack Scavenger was developed by Backpack Scavenger.
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