# BackPack Arena - Inven Battle — user reviews > 47 indexed App Store user reviews of BackPack Arena by 5minlab, rated 2.70/5 from 40 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/backpack-arena-inven-battle/id6504896894/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/backpack-arena-inven-battle/id6504896894.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 8 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 7 · 2★ 14 · 1★ 8 ## What do users think of BackPack Arena? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Fun gameplay - 👍 Game has potential - 💡 Unique concept **Cons** - 🐛 Bugs and glitches - 🔍 Unplayable due to ads - 🚫 Game-breaking issues - 🤯 Account/progress lost after updates **Commonly reported bugs** - Inability to access certain game screens - Items getting stuck and preventing progression - Crashes and freezes during gameplay - Inconsistent language settings - Offline rewards not working as intended **Most requested features** - Fix bugs and glitches - Reduce ads or provide ad-free option - Improve stability and performance - Add save/load functionality ## Newest reviews (12 of 47) ### 3/5 — I mean it’s alright, like *2025-06-01, version 1.8* Downloaded the game, got to stage 5, spent all blue currency to afford ‘rebecca’ ;and, after one more round of backpacking, my game froze after a few lines in the battle. When I restarted the game, my progress is all gone, none was left. I don’t know if it was the cause of an issue in the game, or just because I changed my name before entering the game again. (I might experiment on that) No doubt, this kind of genre of rogue-likes is what I want in a game; and so that’s why I was intrigued to try this backpack game. So far, the ‘stuck in place’ items & dmgs/heals bar thing, laggy shop area, and what happened to my experience earlier was all that I could spot, and what’s been bugging me. (Still disappointed because I was having fun after I bought the skin😭) Then and then, it has a lot of bug fixing to do in the future, and I’m sure I’ll be looking forward to it! ### 2/5 — Needs to be fixed *2025-05-22, version 1.8* This game was so good on android before this newest update. Now that it’s out on iPhone, there are too many bugs to even enjoy the game. This game has so much potential but it was rushed ### 2/5 — 1 *2025-05-14, version 1.8* 재미는 있는데 광고를 적당히 넣어야될 것 같습니다. ### 3/5 — Potentially A Great Game *2025-04-25, version 1.8* Currently the game has too many bugs and a bit quirky. But overall it’s a fun game with cool mechanics. It only needs to be fixed and have more content to be a good game and make it less pay to win to make it a great game. ### 3/5 — Floor 18 *2025-04-18, version 1.8* Not really much of anti-heal and debuff cleansing item in game, and the shop page really creep me out. Every time going to shop page the whole thing lag like someone is brute forcing the device, trying to hack. ### 3/5 — Stick with it bug updates *2025-04-10* Keep working at it team so current bug that is annoying the explore bonus XP and rewards dont actually collect or dont stick. Leveling up shows but doesn’t actually up level and you don’t keep any gold or other rewards right now ### 2/5 — Great game but way too many bugs *2025-04-09* The game is actually a lot of fun and really great but MAN it's so many bugs like visual/damage numbers lingering, starting randomly (even when tiles are overlapping, I've even had my progress reset from Lv.8 back down to Lv.1 randomly as well. Super frustrating because the game is super fun it's just the bugs and mishaps just tarnish this game so bad and it's a shame because I don't normally do reviews like this but if these bugs get fixed easily 5/5 game. If you devs can read this, PLEASE look into these bugs! ### 2/5 — Great gameplay, but broken *2025-04-08* I’m really enjoying playing this game, but the various tabs for upgrading items and leveling up are broken. Makes it impossible to progress! ### 2/5 — Buggy glitchy mess *2025-04-07, version 1.8* Can’t purchase IAP ### 2/5 — Ads are half of the playtime *2025-04-05* This game is incredibly fun. That said, the game is currently unplayable due to ads. There is a long unskippable ad inbetween every round of battle. The battles themselves take about as much time as the ads. This was not always the case, and I will be looking for alternatives until this is fixed. ### 3/5 — Stick with it *2025-04-04* I’m glad they are patching the game actively it seems but there seem to still be a few translation errors like with thorn armor ### 3/5 — Seems fun *2025-04-04* It seems like it’ll be a good game but I never got to play it. In the first round of my first playthrough the smithing stone bugged the game and I couldn’t leave from that screen without uninstalling the game ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Adds galore *2025-06-24, version 1.8* Adds after every battle is truly insane. You can’t purchase game for 99c either because they disabled purchases. This is truly criminal. ### 1/5 — Fix IAP pls *2025-04-29, version 1.8* Can’t buy anything ### 1/5 — 테스트면 초기화라도 넣어줘.. *2025-04-26, version 1.8* 보석을 상점에서 바로 무기에 꽂으니까 둘이 겹친 상태로 옮겨지지도 않고 팔리지도 않고 재접속해도 동일한 상태여서 게임 시작도 못하고 초기화도 없고 뭔가 재밌어는 보이는데 진행이 안되니까 할 수도 없고 ### 1/5 — BUGS LIKE NO TOMORROW *2025-04-19, version 1.8* The game is so buggy that when you attack the enemy and halfway through it gets back to the beginning and the enemy’s health reset but your character’s health is already reduced. And ads every time you proceed to the next opponent??? 12 ads in 1 mission lol, don’t download the game if you’re looking for fun cuz this is just full of ads and bugs ### 1/5 — sad *2025-04-15, version 1.8* full of ads ### 1/5 — F2P at its worst *2025-04-05, version 1.8* The gameplay and mechanics behind this are cool. But my god are there things that make the game obnoxious to play. You have to grind a lot but the dev decided to put an energy system? There are ads but you can only remove them via a 30days subscription? The more you play and the more you are frustrated by the devs choices. Would it have been a premium experience I wouldn’t have hesitated to pay for it. But in the current state, I wouldn’t even want to waste my time with this “game”… Really sad. ### 1/5 — Ad every turn! *2025-04-04* I cant stand a game with a lot of ads but this is too much. There is literally an ad every time you go to fight a monster and every time you make a move to fight. Its too much ### 1/5 — Non stop ads and crashes *2025-04-04, version 1.8* Wouldn’t recommend. Each fight, you have to watch an ad before you can proceed. After Ads finish, high chance of app crashing. ### 1/5 — This update is horrible *2025-04-03, version 1.8* Right before this current update, I can play without forced ads. Now every 2 stage is a forced ad. Was a good game turned bad. ### 1/5 — Trash *2025-04-03, version 1.8* Couldnt even get back 2nd level, two items got stacked and neither would moved to allow you to advance. Way too buggy not worth your time. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Very creative *2025-08-24* very well done and creative! There are a lot of people who complain about the ads, but YOU CAN LITERALLY JUST TURN OFF YOUR INTERNET AND BYPASS ALL OF THEM! This game gets so much criticism for just that. ### 5/5 — I really liked the game but… *2025-05-26* It is moderately difficult up to 18 locations here when there is a slowdown of objects you can say impossible, starting from 18.6 too fast getting ice with which there is nothing to fight. Yes, there are brooms, but 7 ice removals in 3.6 seconds against 30 ice, and the enemy restores 100+ hp per second, seriously? Yes, the torch helps, but it's rare and then it's even worse, so it's stuck on 18.8. Add more ice removals ### 5/5 — Its all fun and challenging until.... *2025-05-02, version 1.8* The fps drop when opening shop, the ads during battle can't use to gain the money ### 5/5 — 재미는 확실하네요 *2025-05-02, version 1.8* 자잘한 버그랑 18스테이지가 말이 안 되긴 한데 어찌저찌 다 깼네용 ### 5/5 — One of my favorite pocket games so far! *2025-04-28, version 1.8* I downloaded this because my friend recommended it to me, we both got addicted 10 minutes into the game :) ### 5/5 — Addicting, surprisingly fun *2025-04-23, version 1.8* Worth to try, I thought it is just some boring mini game but end up spending hours playing it. HOWEVER, there are some bugs need to be fix such as: 1. FPS drop dramatically at the “shop” screen 2. Can’t play ads sometimes ### 5/5 — 테스트버전인가요? *2025-04-20, version 1.8* 재미는있는데.. 결제도 안돼고 데이터 세이브도 안됌;; ### 5/5 — Bugs got fixed W *2025-04-02* The game is fantastic and the devs listen when it comes to fixing bugs ### 5/5 — Still has some bugs but it’s all g *2025-04-02* Some are still buggy but it’s better than it was originally ### 4/5 — Game is good,but… *2025-04-26, version 1.8* Need to fix shop and reduce the ad --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*