Packmates
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Gear up your animal hero in this 1–3 player co-op survivor roguelite. Master tactical inventory arrangement to unleash devastating combos. Obliterate enemies and battle bosses to overcome the corruption infiltrating your forest!
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Packmates: Your Backpack is your BuildYou have a backpack. Good. You’re going to need it.Packmates is a survivor roguelite about turning inventory management into a weapon. The monsters brought claws, spells, ghosts, and slime royalty. You brought a bag full of junk and a dangerous willingness to sort it properly.Backpack Inventory SystemEvery run starts with a backpack, a handful of items, and the false belief that this will stay manageable. It will not. You will be stuffing weapons beside trinkets, and armor into whatever corners remain while trying to squeeze every last adjacency effect out of the layout.Need more room? Get a Pocket. Place it on a locked inventory slot to unlock it. Congratulations. Your organizational problem is now larger and somehow worse.The right arrangement turns a decent build into a disaster for everything on screen. The wrong arrangement turns your backpack into an expensive grave marker.Item Leveling and InfusionPower does not come from items and their synergies alone, it also comes from upgrading what you already have. Forge matching items together to increase item level and carry them deeper into your run.Then utilize Infusion to merge items with Trinkets, transferring powerful adjacency effects onto the item. With item leveling and infusion, you'll get gear that does more, hits harder, and opens up new layouts that were not possible on the previous Floor.Gamemodes: Standard and Endless AdventureStandard Adventure — Fight through 3 Acts, defeating elite enemies & bosses to earn Hero Gems which you can spend on permanent hero upgrades.Endless Adventure — Keep looping through the Acts as long as you can stay alive. Enemies get harder and faster, and you're now rewarded with Legendary Shards for unlocking powerful Legendary items.Objectives — Head to objectives on each floor to find extra fights that ask more of your build. Objectives provide additional rewards, giving you more reason to push beyond surviving the floor. If you want bigger rewards, you’ll have to earn them.Boss FightsEvery Act ends with a boss, and every boss asks different questions of your build. Bring enough damage to dethrone the Slime Queen in Act 1. Survive the split pressure of Frost and Ignis in Act 2. Make it to Act 3 and bring down the final boss before your adventure comes to an end.Boss levels are where weak layouts get exposed and strong ones get a chance to show off.Unlockable Heroes, Classes, Progression Trees, and Legendary ItemsWinning a run is nice. Building for a future of stronger runs is nicer.Unlock new Packmates (heroes) and alternate classes to discover new playstylesUnlock new items to expand your build optionsPlay Standard Adventure to get hero gems for spending on permanent hero upgradesPlay Endless Adventure to unlock Legendary ItemsRelics and Camp MerchantsRelics are equipped before you start your adventure and change the rules of the run. Boon Relics make things easier. Curse Relics make things more difficult. Naturally, you will eventually equip the dangerous curses on purpose because that’s where the interesting stories live.Complete challenges to unlock Merchants for the camp who help you on your adventure with new shops and new ways to combine your items.Co-op and LeaderboardsPlay solo or online co-op with up to 2 friends. Drop items for your party to share, and build around each other's strengths. When you’re ready to chase glory, play Endless Adventure to get ranked on the leaderboards.
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1.0 launches with Endless Mode on April 16th
Packmates launches on April 16th, 2026 with a huge wave of new content, systems, and replayability that goes far beyond what you’ve played in any demo so far.Make sure you wishlist Packmates to get no
Packmates - Balance Improvements and Other Goodies!
Hi Packmates! A few changes have been packed into this update. The main goal here is to address some of the feedback we have received by improving the feeling of melee while also reducing the sudden s
Packmates Demo - Small Update and Boss Fight Changes
Hello Packmates!A small update has gone live that includes fixes for a few issues from the previous update as well as some balance adjustments for enemy abilities, including bosses. As an added bonus,
Packmates - New patch coming later this week!
Hey Packmates! First of all, a huge thank you to those of you who played the Packmates Demo through Steam NextFest and an extra thank you to those of you who posted feedback in Steam Discussions, Revi
Packmates Demo - Hotfix (14 Oct)
A small hotfix to address the following:Fixed a bug where creatures spawned from Summon items would spawn as invisible and unresponsive.Language dropdown in Game settings now also displays language na
Packmates Demo - New Main Menu and Map Objective!
Today we have another update. This update includes a new main menu upgrade, a new map objective, some other UI visual improvements, and some fixes for reported issues.Main MenuNew and improved 2.5D ma
Packmates - Demo now available!
The Packmates Demo is now available to play, and will be part of the upcoming Steam Next Fest! Recruit your friends to join your pack and and see how you fare as a team with the online co-op mode incl
Packmates Playtest: Act 2 Is Live - More Levels & Items!
Packmates Playtest has been updated to include Act 2! After beating the boss in Act 1, you can keep playing longer and push your build deeper in Act 2 which features 2 more maps followed by the Act 2
Packmates Playtest Live – Bring Two Friends Along
The first wave of Packmates Playtest invites has been sent out! If you requested access on the store page make sure to check your Steam library for 'Packmates Playtest'. More invites will be sent out
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