Comparison

Backpack Battles vs Dungeon Warfare 3

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Backpack Battles

Strategize and battle using a meticulously organized backpack filled with items. Combine and craft powerful equipment to gain an advantage. Compete against other players in ranked or unranked modes with no time limits.

Highlights
  • Item placement strategy
  • Item combination and crafting
  • Real-player battles
  • Ranked and Unranked modes
  • No time limits
  • Leaderboard climbing
Features
Currently charting
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[We recommend a total device RAM of 4GB or higher; otherwise, the app may crash due to insufficient memory.] In Backpack Battles, you fight with your backpack full of items! It matters what you buy, and especially how you place them. The smarter you place your items, the stronger you'll be! Items come in different shapes, sizes, prices, and rarities. Combine them into even stronger equipment: brew powerful potions, craft legendary weapons, or even hatch a dragon friend! Face the backpack builds of other real players. See what they came up with, and counter them to win. Test your limits in Ranked Mode and climb the leaderboard! Or relax in Unranked Mode with low pressure. Both modes have no time limits, so take your time to organize your backpack! Join our community for discussion and support! Discord: https://discord.gg/PKPGxFpgFA Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AtWHngD8v/ New Player Guide Video on Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFtuXBw4bDM Contact Us:support.m@indieark.com

About

Dungeon Warfare 3

Design your own perilous dungeons by strategically placing terrain and traps to defeat waves of adventurers. Earn experience to permanently upgrade your arsenal and adapt to diverse enemies and procedurally generated challenges.

Highlights
  • Realm Shaping: Forge your battlefield tile by tile
  • Deadly Arsenal: Deploy and upgrade traps
  • Deep Progression: Permanently enhance traps and abilities
  • Diverse Foes: Face unique enemy challenges
  • Handcrafted & Infinite Levels: Play curated and procedural dungeons
  • Adjustable Difficulty: Tune challenge with a rune system
Features
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Dungeon Warfare 3 is the next evolution of the acclaimed tower defense series. Lay out terrain tiles, carve perilous pathways, and customize your domain to create a perfectly tuned gauntlet of mayhem and misery. Your arsenal of traps and contraptions is deadlier than ever, featuring more methods of maiming, mangling, and misdirecting your foes. Every successful defense grants you valuable experience to permanently strengthen your tools of torment. Experiment with newfound synergy between traps and terrain, adapt on the fly to relentless waves of adventurers, and tailor the difficulty to your liking with a refined rune system. With an expanded variety of enemies, handcrafted levels, and infinite procedural challenges, Dungeon Warfare 3 promises an endlessly replayable tower defense experience that rewards cunning, creativity, and cruelty in equal measure. [Game Features] - Realm Shaping: Forge your battlefield tile by tile. Raise walls, carve chasms, and channel enemy forces into your most insidious defenses. - Deadly Arsenal: Deploy an even greater variety of traps and contraptions, each upgradeable and modifiable to suit your playstyle. - Deep Progression: Earn experience with every victory to permanently enhance your traps, unlock powerful new abilities, and strengthen your stronghold. - Diverse Foes: Face off against an expanded cast of adventurers, each presenting unique challenges that demand dynamic strategies. - Handcrafted & Infinite Levels: Conquer a curated selection of handcrafted scenarios, then test your mastery in procedurally generated dungeons that never play the same way twice. - Adjustable Difficulty: Mix and match runes to scale challenge and rewards, allowing you to perfectly tune each encounter to your preference. - Endless Mode & Beyond: Push your defenses to their limits against relentless waves of enemies, compete for high scores, and become a legend of the Realm Shapers. - Polished Presentation: Enjoy refined pixel art, atmospheric sound design, and responsive controls that bring your dastardly dungeon—and the agony of your foes—to life.

Screenshots

Backpack Battles4 screens
Dungeon Warfare 34 screens

Verdict

The call

Backpack Battles and Dungeon Warfare 3 both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 71% of Dungeon Warfare 3's written reviews are positive against 47% of Backpack Battles's. Dungeon Warfare 3 also leads on price ($6.99 vs $9.99). Backpack Battles's advantage is ratings volume (333 vs 31) and chart position (#120 vs unranked). On rating, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Backpack Battles costs $9.99 and Dungeon Warfare 3 $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Backpack Battles against 4.5 for Dungeon Warfare 3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Backpack Battles has 333 ratings behind it against 31, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 47% of Backpack Battles's written reviews are positive against 71% of Dungeon Warfare 3's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Backpack Battles ships an update every 8 days, Dungeon Warfare 3 every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Backpack Battles versus Dungeon Warfare 3: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackpack BattlesDungeon Warfare 3
Price$9.99$6.99 — better
Rating4.5 (333 ratings)4.5 (31 ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.4% of reviews71.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings333 — better31
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank#120 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size512 MB428 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperYaozuo Games LtdExcidium Inc.

Customer experience

Backpack Battles

All ratings327 ratings
Positive86.5%
Neutral3.4%
Negative10.1%
Written reviews194 reviews
Positive47.4%
Neutral11.9%
Negative40.7%

Dungeon Warfare 3

All ratings31 ratings
Positive87.1%
Neutral9.7%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews45 reviews
Positive71.1%
Neutral13.3%
Negative15.6%

In-app purchases

None

Backpack Battles

No in-app purchases

None

Dungeon Warfare 3

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Backpack Battles free?
Backpack Battles costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dungeon Warfare 3 free?
Dungeon Warfare 3 costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Backpack Battles or Dungeon Warfare 3?
Dungeon Warfare 3 is rated higher. Backpack Battles averages 4.5 out of 5 from 333 ratings, while Dungeon Warfare 3 averages 4.5 from 31 ratings.
Do Backpack Battles or Dungeon Warfare 3 have ads?
Neither Backpack Battles nor Dungeon Warfare 3 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Backpack Battles or Dungeon Warfare 3?
Backpack Battles ships an update every 8 days, and Dungeon Warfare 3 every 9 days. Most recently, Backpack Battles was updated on October 27, 2026 and Dungeon Warfare 3 on October 28, 2026.

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