Last updated on January 3rd, 2026 at 03:29 am
Backpack Rush – Strategy Game Review
Backpack Rush is a Strategy/Adventure game from Noodle Games Limited, first launched in 30th October 2024.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 2,366+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Backpack Rush Stand Out
Enter a world full of danger! Organizing your backpack is key to survival.
Are you ready to tackle the crispy challenges ahead? In this new backpack survival game, you will experience pleasant strategy and adventure!
In the preparation phase, you can buy various equipment and cleverly place it in your backpack. Each item comes in different sizes, so you’ll need to stack them smartly to squeeze out every ounce of power in battle. Combine similar items of the same level to upgrade your gear—and remember, how you place things makes all the difference. Some items can unlock sizzling special effects through specific placements, giving you powerful combat abilities.
Once the battle begins, waves of enemies will fry you from above. You’ll need to defend against every attack within the time limit to claim victory! Show your strategic skills and wisdom.
Game Features:
· Backpack Organizing Gameplay: Enjoy the dual fun of strategy and arrangement.
· Combination and Activation System: Mix and match your gear to unlock special effects and make your backpack an unstoppable force.
· Exciting Battles: Face endless waves of enemies that will put your planning and defense to the test.
· Stress-Free Fun: Relax and enjoy the process of arranging your backpack and battling enemies.
· Rewards Galore: After fending off enemies, you'll earn treasure chests, equipment, and other rich rewards. Log in daily for free gems to enhance your combat power!
With each level, you’ll face new waves of enemies and fresh challenges, keeping you hooked from start to finish. Whether it’s organizing your backpack or acing enemies in battle, every aspect is packed with fun!
This game is for everyone! Whether you are a fan of strategy or just looking for casual fun, this game has you covered!
Don’t let your backpack turn into a disaster—organize it smartly, battle fiercely, and survive the chaos!
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Backpack Rush is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 19th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Update, Organize, and Conquer!
- Performance improvements.
Download & Availability
Backpack Rush is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Backpack Rush on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We realize the company has made a free game for us its very fun im on round 56 and ive only gotten here because ive dumped hundreds of dollars in ad tickets now we get one or 2 ads per match but we have to watch 1-3 ads per wave to beat anything up here been playing for about 2 months its okay but at this point its a money pit not worth playing it was fun but too many ads.
This app is awesome it gets your brain going but it is overwhelming sometimes.
Base content gets difficult fast leading to a lot of replaying of old levels. Has potential to be great but feels like a slog.
Im in lv 47. Its been a fun game so far. Could add some new content. It just repeats the same events. Maybe some new weapons. Had a good time nonetheless.
This game is pretty courteous, all things considered. We dont understand why this game is being bashed for adds despite its GREAT leniency. Pretty addicting, 8/10.
We really love this game so Much it has alot of cool stuff and sword is so OP and really fun to play.
Tbh this game isnt completely like the ads we saw but its similar and its still pretty fun.
Its a good idea for the most part. The having to restart from scratch with gear and how hard it is to make higher quality gear and room without ads is a turn off. Unless they fix it we definitely wont be playing it again. Oh and please dont respond to this review just fix it. Its irritating when our reviews are responded to pointlessly.
Ive never left a review on a game in our life. We were fine watching ads to earn things. But all of a sudden we get hit with a ad break!!! Thats an immediate delete for us.
We think the concept in itself is really fun and enjoy the core game but the amount of ads is ridiculous. Im fine with the ads for slots and ads for x item mechanic, but its ridiculous that we should have to take an ad break every other round or sometimes even after every single round. Just kills the momentum for us and we find ourselves just swiping out of the game.
Im not a developer or Im not being paid to say this but its a good game and its just how it is in the ads which we were actually surprised.
Ads are crazy. Forced ads every few waves in a battle. As well as to actually beat a wave past the first few intro ones you need to voluntarily watch more ads to gain tiles. Cant merge/have enough space without. Then some ads are like 10 seconds but many are also 120 seconds+. Getting kinda crazy forced 120 second ad, then you need to individually click the x button like 3 separate times after the ad to exit. And you need to wait like 5 seconds between every exit. FOR ONE AD. Then some also say reward granted with no option to skip. Just too crazy on the ads and normally they dont bother us that bad. Good game besides, so stinks.
We have been enjoying this game Aton it's a really good game and we've played a lot but today we were trying to get the 1.99$ gear coin pack where you get 19 coins. We have parental controls so we have to request things to our mother we requested it closed the app then our mom accepted it. What she bought isn't there and she did pay for it, would be a 5 star if this didn't happen.
Our only suggestions 1. If youve reached a capacity of spaces unlocked and earn a new tile that has more spaces available then can be added, youre wasting it. 2. Just let us sell the units we dont want to use, or have no space for. Were not talking big chedda cheese for a leather glove but a few spare coins to get a leg up instead of feeling like you played yourself by wasting more.
Great game but give us the monkey king!!! The spin, roulette purposely misses him!!! Great game other than that, also the ice staff is one of the best weapon.
We really like Apple sauce when our uncle says hi the Apple shakes twice before the mirror cracks then our question is why is our fork yellow and our cake blue.
This game got potential! We love the pacing and the challenge but a lot of it relays on luck then skill. At no point should the storage box be a ad unlock and reset after each wave. We dont mind only putting one item in there however its abit annoying of how rare an upgrade is early or late game. Plus what is with all the ads? Longer you play the more you have to watch its not already bad enough we have to watch ads for extra backpack spaces and worse we cant turn the items sideways to open up potential spaces for bigger items cant have a sword and a crossbow early game.
Game is great in concept, but amount of ads and duration of them kill the experience.
This game is really fun for awhile. But they gave it the wrong name. It should be called ad simulator because you can not progress without watching a metric ton of ads.
But seriously. TWO MINUTE ADS???!?!? Absolutely not. Your games not that great.
It was really fun in the beginning until level 15. After every wave there was a random Ad break ( which there are 20 waves per location). We felt like we watched more ads than actually played the game.
Literally opposite of clickbait and kept us entertained for a long time on our plane ride :).
You can't rotate items and there's many forced ads. Rumble Bag seems like a much more refined game we find ourselves playing more instead.
Start off fun, then each round ends with an ad break. Deleted because we cannot take a break every 2-3mins to watch an ad.
It was fun until lvl 18. You can mostly choose if you want to see ads. There are some ad-paywalled content (having to watch an ad for certain things to level more), you get one free refresh every level, one ad watch one for possible lvl 2 gear and slots, and 3 slot ads for gaining more slots. If you get lucky anything over 3 slots required an ad warch. But at lvl 18 we just got stuck, dead stop. Too many enemies and they all breaks into two. Ive gotten to lvl 3 on that level but then get decimated. Im assuming if we just kept playing our level would eventually outweigh the monsters but its been a week of startstop getting crushed and we had zero issues with any other level. Didnt even come close to death til now. Balance it a bit more Id even think about throwing some cash at it eventually since we actually like the gameplay loop itself.
Ive noticed the recurring events are very clearly rigged to give certain outcomes and encourage spending, our plea is that it is extremely annoying and you wont lose much money at all if you make it actually random.
Overall game is entertaining but the inability to remove reward ads – and sorta needing reward ads to expand the backpack is super annoying. There is a no ad option but that's just to stop any random during gameplay ads, nothing we could find was to remove ads from bag expansion.
Starting this with theres no real way to bypass the ads in this game. Even if you bought the ad pass it only gets rid of the ads after each round. Yo still need to watch ads to get more slots in your backpack to make any real progress in the game. Id pay to get rid of all the ads.this is a good game concept. But not with there being more ads on top of the pay wall.
The game is decent, but it would be infinitely better if after EVERY SINGLE ROUND we wasn't pelted with ads. Your greed knows no bounds.
We love this game but find it impossible to make any progress without watching ads to get extra space. Theres a pass to purchase ad skips but its 15 a week. Please offer an ad-free version for a one-time fee so we can keep playing forever.
Dont bother wasting money on the ad skip as the backpack space that comes in a fight is still locked behind an ad. How does that make sense? Double rewards and such should be locked behind ads after purchase but not items during a fight. Would be a 4/5 star if it wasnt that way.
Im irritated. Our finger gets sweaty and when we try to drag an item it glitches out and we cant move the item anymore. Then when we reload the game its different items than we had previously. Back to back had double new squares, glitched out and had to reload and lost them. We watch enough ads as is to help us out with free tiles. Our items seem to just disappear off the screen and cant bring them back. Makes us want to uninstall could also easily be abused if you get items you dont like just reload the game over and over until you get what you want. Why even watch the ads or spend money.
Now this game is decent after first play through but you took this mechanics straight out of a game we play on pc annually. There is one thing this game is missing that is absolutely crucial. The items you have work better next to certain items. You have to implement that. Like for instance the gloves will make the shurikens fire faster. We know there are perks and what not. But you gotta implement this if youre gonna take that mechanic. The thing. We like the most about this game though we: the fact it is a roguelike. And the play is nice. We got it because of our girl. Please look further into adding that we beg of you. You have a long term player as of now.
Game is insanely fun until you get about three reigns in. Then you can expect an ad every minute youre in game. Was loving it, now deleting it.
Its a fun game just way to many adds.
We started play this game and follow up with the graphics in the whole concept and we were really enjoying it. We even bought a $10 pack of ad skippers. But not even a day all of our ad skippers were gone, and we were barely past the third level. The game just really isnt playable unless you spend a lot of money to get rid of the ads. Or you can watch the ads, but some of them are 90 seconds.
Youll play 3-5 levels before getting an ad and there is no way to play offline however the game itself is decently made and fun.
We personally love the game and we haven't gotten any ads yet that we didn't choose to get. It's really fun the only thing that we didn't expect was not being able to keep everything in your bag in the next round. Still overall a really fun game.
Sadly, no soundtrack but you can listen to music while you play so you can listen to anything you want so we will give this four stars.
This could be better. Im guessing the first level was the tutorial, because we got backpack slots and a small assortment of weapons to choose from. Money or silver drops were decent. No adsperfect. Then we reached level 2 and backpack slots had ads, the refresh no longer had one free try. Level up gearads. No option to pay for an ad free experience, which we only do if we enjoy the game, and we were enjoying it. Its getting deleted. Im not going to hope for developers to fix, because Im moving on. Theres too much out there to recheck on this game for improvements. Maybe itll get better for someone else.
It could be better we think it needs more upgrades.
This game is honestly one of the most fun games we have ever played. We see a lot of people complaining about the ads but we think they are honestly very reasonable compared to most free mobile games. You are not forced to watch more than 3 per each level, which the levels last about 15 minutes and the ads are usually never longer than 30 seconds. We love this game because it has so many different parts to it and its not so difficult that you cant play it but its also not too easy. The problem we do have with the ads is the content. Even when we have tailored ads apparently turned off we get the same three ads every time advertising apps to read werewolf books which are very much adult books, which we have no interest in reading. The worst part is anytime we report the ad for adult content, the game proceeds to ONLY give us that specific ad. It is definitely not based off of personal data because we accidentally deleted the app and ALL of our data/progress from our iCloud, then reinstalled it and still got the same ads. Please fix this because we dont want to play it anymore when we keep getting ads for werewolf books, its embarrassing to have them pop up in public.
Game has mandatory ads mid run that you need to hit 3 different buttons to close out of, multiple times per stage. Might have been a 3 or 4 star game without, but too annoying to want to keep playing through, uninstalled within a day.
The design of the game itself is actually quite good. HOWEVER, there are far too many ads to make this an enjoyable experience. Want a good upgrade? Watch an ad. Want to claim all your rewards? Watch an ad. Want to use an ability you unlocked and earned? Watch an ad. Want to just play the game without taking any good abilities? Watch a forced random ad break. We understand including ads for people that dont want to engage in microtransactions, but this type of aggressive ad placement causes this game to be nearly unplayable, which is sad because it has so much potential to actually be fun.
Its good just needs a faster was to claim the completed levels.
Its amazing but we think you should have more skins or costume skins. Also we got a 110 second long ad Its a great game.
Just barely enjoyable. Typical freemium ad based game. Decent game to pass time when bored waiting somewhere.
We love the game. Its just for another game super similar to it called the rumble bag and Im not sure if its copyright.
We do love the game. Its super addictive, but when you have 3 upgrades per wave, there should never be an advertisement forced on us for one of the upgrades. You already have ads interspersed in the gameplay, ads placed for spaces in gameplay, ads in the menu It feels a little overzealous to take one of our upgrade slots occasionally to offer spaces for an ad. Its intrusive to gameplay, especially with no option to pay for no ads permanently (which is a massive missed opportunity, youd get a lot more OTP that way. Id easily pay $10-15 for complete ad-free). We understand wanting to monetize your game, its very fun, but youre verging on predatory ad placement, really. Compared to a certain game on Desktop that is very cheap to buy and contains no ads, we actually prefer this game, but the stolen upgrade slot is sort of frustrating without the option to have no ads via a purchase permanently.
We really enjoy the concept and gameplay of this game, but the only problem we have is how ads are basically required to make any meaningful progress in levels. Ill usually be ok with it if the ads are less than 30 seconds or so, but since all ads are usually more than 1-2 minutes, the gameplay starts to feel more like an ad watching simulator over all else. If possible, we would reccomend making ads for level up rewards and spaces shorter, and either reduce the frequency, or increase the silver reward from ad breaks throughout waves, as they are very game distracting with a reward thats basically meaningless. Overall a very enjoyable game, that would be even better with less ads.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.852.219
- Size: 222.23 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: AR, EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, FA, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH, ZH, VI
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Noodle Games Limited
Last updated: 19th December 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Adventure | Developer: Noodle Games Limited