Press kit
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Fact sheet
| Game | Scrap Heap: Backpack Roguelike |
|---|---|
| Developer and publisher | The Next Beacon, an independent studio |
| Genre | Backpack roguelike, auto battler, inventory puzzle |
| Platforms | Android (Google Play), iPhone and iPad (App Store, coming soon) |
| Release | Google Play: 23 October 2026 |
| Price | Free to try. One in-app purchase (€4.99 / $4.99) unlocks the full game. No ads, no subscription, no loot boxes. |
| Languages | English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Polish, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified and Traditional Chinese |
| Content | 12 heroes, 95 items, 20 relics, 35 abilities, a daily run, endless mode and an ascension ladder |
| Play | Single player, fully offline |
| Website | scrapheap.thenextbeacon.com |
| Store | Google Play |
In one line
A backpack roguelike where your bag is the build: buy junk, weld it into better junk, then try to make it fit.
Description
Scrap Heap is a backpack roguelike auto battler built on one problem: everything you own takes up real space, and there is never enough of it. Between fights you shop a salvage yard, merge duplicate items into higher tiers and rearrange your bag until it clicks. Then you hit Fight and the battle plays itself out. All the tension is in the packing.
A run is fifteen rounds through the Furnace Spine to a boss. Beat it and cash out, or push into endless mode while the pressure climbs and the payouts get ridiculous. Each of the twelve heroes has a kit and a doctrine that change how you draft from round one. A daily run gives every player in the world the same seed: same shops, same route, same boss.
The first hero and a complete run are free. One purchase unlocks the rest. Runs are simulated on the phone, so it plays anywhere, with no connection.
Features
- Spatial inventory where shape and position matter as much as stats
- Item merging into higher tiers, and synergy tags that reward committing to a build
- Twelve heroes with their own kits, signature abilities and starting rigs
- Branching route with elites, markets, caches and repair bays
- Endless mode and an ascension ladder after the boss
- One shared daily seed for every player
- Offline, no ads, no energy timers, one purchase
Screenshots
Captured in game at 1080×2160. Click one for the full-size PNG.
Logo and icon
The logo is a transparent PNG. The icon is 1024×1024.
About The Next Beacon
The Next Beacon is a small independent studio making mobile games. It also makes Ten Million Cells and Mahjong Sanctuary.
Contact: info@thenextbeacon.com · thenextbeacon.com