Backpack Legends is the next addition to the inventory-management genre, coming soon to iOS and Android

• One other recreation with grid-based stock administration
• Added layer of open world journey with dungeon crawling
• Select from 4 distinct courses and rebuild your village

I had a wierd sense of deja vu placing this one collectively. I solely simply wrote about Overgeared Hero, and final week it was Backpack Battles, and now Backpack Legends has popped up with pre-registration on iOS and Android. Both stock administration has out of the blue turn into the hottest pattern round, or somebody opened the floodgates and forgot to warn the remainder of us.

To be honest, Backpack Legends does strive to push issues in a barely totally different path. Sure, you’re nonetheless arranging weapons and gear inside a grid-based bag and squeezing each final stat enhance out of that restricted area. However as a substitute of focusing purely on roguelike runs, this one options an open-world journey with dungeon crawling, boss fights, and a number of zones to discover.

You’re the solely hero on the discipline, and all the things comes down to how nicely you put together earlier than the battle begins. I really like that method, as a result of it turns the backpack itself into the actual construct system. A sword positioned next to the proper merchandise would possibly change your complete technique, whereas a badly organised loadout can ship you again to tow,n questioning what went fallacious.

Talking of cities, there’s a surprisingly sturdy idle component working beneath all the things. As you rescue villagers and rebuild buildings like mines or markets, your settlement begins routinely producing assets. Lessons like Warrior, Mage, Archer, and Murderer spherical issues out, alongside an enormous pile of substances to stockpile.

Will the style continue to grow or fade as rapidly because it arrived? Whereas that continues to be to be seen, three backpack technique releases in such a brief span positively really feel like greater than a coincidence. But if all this has you eager, Backpack Legends is anticipated to launch towards the finish of June. 

If the mixture of city constructing and journey seems like your factor, you may want to take a look at our picks for the finest metropolis builder video games on Android whilst you wait.