Backpack Battles in IOS

★★★★★ OK port with bad controls

I’ve been waiting excitedly for this game ever since it was announced. I belated hundreds of hours of Backpack battle on Steam and to have it available mobile was exciting. Overall the port is pretty well done. But there’s a few issues. I’ve played the mobile version for about 3 hours at the time of writing. Text is very small and some symbols are almost impossible to differentiate. Not sure how this could be addressed since the screen is obviously smaller. The worst issue is the touch controls. For game who’s whole mechanic is organizing and setting up items precisely the movement of items is literally the only interaction we have with the game. It’s frustrating at best. Items will lock (preventing combinations) seemingly randomly and will do it whether the manual movement tab is open or not. Other times if you place an item on top of another item you’ll have to move the old one, makes sense. But sometimes that old item will be moving off the screen and you have to figure out how to get it back on screen. This can cause you to misplace items and ruin your entire build. Finally seeing where the stars for each item will lineup is also impossible. Since the items are so small they get covered by your fingers. I truly hope these control issues get addressed soon because what is a very hyped up app for people that love this game has turned out to be initially very disappointing.