Backpack Merge vs 九幽卷 Jiuyou
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Backpack Merge
Merge magical equipment and strategically organize your backpack to defend a peaceful academy from a monster invasion. Become the legendary Archmage and discover diverse combat strategies through talented equipment combinations.
- Merge equipment
- Organize backpack
- Defend from monsters
- Diverse strategies
- Talented equipment combinations
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The Peaceful Magic Academy is suddenly under monsters' invasion! Become the legendary Archmage, merge your equipment, and organize your backpack! Help the Magic Academy fend off the monsters' invasion! Game Features: -Merge equipment and organize your backpack! -Defend the Magic Academy from monster attacks! -Talented equipment combinations offer diverse strategies! Contact us: hecs@droidhang.com
九幽卷 Jiuyou
Embark on a challenging roguelike deckbuilder adventure through treacherous realms. Master unique heroes, build powerful decks, and outwit diverse enemies and bosses in multiple game modes.
- Multiple game modes (Main, Tales, Challenge, Arena, Duel)
- Five distinct heroes with unique abilities
- Strategic deckbuilding with over 450 cards
- Dynamic combat with positional tactics
- Challenging bosses and environmental effects
- Roguelike progression with permanent unlocks
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[FIVE WAYS TO PLAY] - Main Mode: 5 heroes, 4 volumes, 20 floors to the Nine Netherworlds; clearing it unlocks 10 Calamity levels. - Tales of the Strange: 5 chapters, 20 fixed stages, your own deck. - Challenge Mode: 10 rounds of "pick 1 of 3," then 10 floors straight. - Daily Arena: one puzzle a day, same for everyone. - Duel (new): a different way to play cards, see below. [NEW MODE - DUEL] Both sides plan three moves in secret; lower cost goes first, Taunt struck first. Front-row minions grow sturdier and trade damage on impact; back-row minions hit harder and strike unanswered, and excess kill damage pierces to the hero. Spells can gamble on an empty slot for double damage, or ambush it. Both 40-card decks share one pool, so reading your opponent decides it. Five rivals: Water-Severing Blade, Thousand-Faced Fox Spirit, Judge of the Underworld, Withered Monk and Mister Empty Coffin. [YOUR ENEMIES PLAY CARDS TOO] Bandits flood the board with thugs, a sorcerer drops venomous insects, and the Judge of the Underworld curses your deck. Five slots per side; position, adjacency and Taunt decide the fight. [INTO THE NINE NETHERWORLDS] Wolves on the ridges, corpses in old tombs, drowned ghosts at midnight. Play the Martial Artist, Talisman Master, Wandering Ranger, Corpse Herder or Wandering Monk, from the mountains to the realm of the dead. Fall, and carry shards and soul jade onward. [CORE GAMEPLAY] - Four volumes, 20 floors anew each run: battles, elites, shops, rest sites, encounters, a boss per volume, a final on floor 20. - Five fixed board slots per side; mana grows each turn, up to 10. - Three keywords: Lifesteal, Golden Bell (blocks the next hit) and Stealth (untargetable until it strikes). - 62 enemy decks: wolf packs, poison sorcerers, armored machines, a corpse-driving ritualist's bell. - Pick 1 of 3 after battles, buy or remove cards at shops, rest or upgrade at camp. [FIVE HEROES] - Martial Artist: armor into offense; "Iron Wall" builds to "Mountain Splitter." - Talisman Master: stack and detonate seals; "Inscribe" builds to "Myriad Talismans." - Wandering Ranger: poison then crit; "Envenom" builds to "Seven Kills." - Corpse Herder: minions die to serve again; "Ring the Bell" builds to "Ten Thousand Souls." - Wandering Monk: healing becomes damage; "Spring's Return" builds to "Boundless Light." About 50 cards per hero, plus 189 neutral and 25 Legendaries across five clans — Demon, Spirit, Ghost, Beast, Artifact — 454 cards total. [ENEMIES AND BOSSES] - 62 enemies: 30 regular, 21 elites, 9 bosses, 2 final bosses. - Choose your boss: pick 1 of 3 per volume (2 for finals); the harder pick wins an extra relic. Bosses shift tactics past half Health; finals reach a third phase. - 8 weathers: Dense Fog, Blood Moon, Ghost Wind, Ley Turmoil, Miasma, Frozen Pool, Paper Rain, Buddha's Light. - Bounty relics: every elite carries one, guaranteed on a win. [RELICS, BREAKTHROUGHS AND ENLIGHTENMENT] - 63 relics: 48 in a run, 3 per hero once unlocked. - 20 potions, free to use. - Breakthrough: 12 cards transform, kept for the run. - Enlighten adds Taunt, Charge, a draw or cost cut; shrines sell Blessings. - 37 encounters, 4 chains: Fox Maiden, White Snake, Underworld Debt, False Buddha. - Shards unlock cards, soul jade buys upgrades. [AFTER THE CREDITS] - 10 Calamity levels: harder elites, less gold, earlier boss phases, more enemy mana, two finals at level 10; +10% shards per level. - Tales of the Strange: 5 chapters, 20 stages, each its own tale. - Challenge Mode: a 10-card base, 10 picks to 20 cards, then 10 floors straight. - Daily Arena: one seed, one hero, shared modifiers; retry for your best. - 60 achievements, 6 card backs (easy to hard), 7 hidden. [OFFLINE, SINGLE-PLAYER] No internet, accounts, purchases or ads. Built for iPhone and iPad. [LANGUAGES] Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and English.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: 九幽卷 Jiuyou at 100% against Backpack Merge's 25%. 九幽卷 Jiuyou also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and rating (4.9 vs 4.4). Backpack Merge's advantage is price (Free vs $6.99) and ratings volume (119 vs 9). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Backpack Merge is free to download; 九幽卷 Jiuyou costs $6.99 up front. Backpack Merge sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. 九幽卷 Jiuyou asks for nothing beyond the download.
九幽卷 Jiuyou holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Backpack Merge has 119 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Backpack Merge's written reviews are positive against 100% of 九幽卷 Jiuyou's.
Backpack Merge ships an update every 6 weeks, 九幽卷 Jiuyou every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Backpack Merge | 九幽卷 Jiuyou |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $6.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (119 ratings) | 4.9 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 119 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 231 MB | 306 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 伟 王 | Zhe Guan |
Customer experience
Backpack Merge
九幽卷 Jiuyou
Bugs and requests
Backpack Merge
Reported bugs
11 issues- Ads fail to load or display (critical issue affecting rewards)
- Server connection errors and timeouts
- Insufficient items equipped error blocking stage progression
- Stamina randomly drains after server errors
- Login failures with Facebook and Apple ID
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- Invisible mob enemies causing infinite waves
- Game crashes and freezes
- Ads stuck in loading state indefinitely
- Rewards not properly granted after watching ads on tablets
- Performance lag during boss fights
- Game won't open or load properly
Requested features
7 requests- Add German language support
- Add Ukrainian and Russian language options
- Add Google ID login option for iOS
- Reduce ad frequency and duration
- Implement alternative monetization model
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- Fix ad loading system
- Improve server stability
九幽卷 Jiuyou
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Backpack Merge
- Package33$0.99
- Package9$0.99
- Package7$4.99
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- Package28$4.99
- Package81$7.99
- Package90$9.99
- Package36$9.99
- Package8$9.99
- Package10$9.99
- Package44$19.99
九幽卷 Jiuyou
No in-app purchases
Questions
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