Backfirewall_

Hello and welcome to Backfirewall_, a first-person tragicomic adventure set inside a smartphone. You are the update assistant. Solve wacky puzzles to counter the update and save the previous operating system from deletion. The fate of the System is in your hands!

Backfirewall_ is a adventure, narration and comedy game developed by Naraven Games and published by All in! Games and Untold Tales.
Released on January 30th 2023 is available only on Windows in 9 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 393 reviews of which 365 were positive and 28 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Backfirewall_ into these genres:

Adventure Narration Comedy Casual First-Person Story Rich Exploration Puzzle Funny Singleplayer Indie 3D Physics Minimalist

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: 64-bit Windows 7/8.1/10
Processor: AMD FX-6100 / Intel i3-3220 or Equivalent
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD7750, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 or Equivalent
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 15 GB available space

Reviews

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Jan. 2025

A quirky exploration/minor-puzzler in a virtual environment. Pros: * Pretty environment. * An amusingly narcissistic "buddy" you quickly learn to love to hate. * Lots of NPCs w/ distinct personalities. * Decent plot twists about 1/2-way through, and near the end. Cons: * Kiss goodbye to the idea of getting even "most" of the achievements in a single run, w/o a walkthrough. * Likewise, no "chapter select", to re-do levels you missed stuff on. TL;DR: If you either aren't obsessed with 100%'ing an exploration game, or have loads of spare time, 9/10; else, skip.

Sept. 2024

Had the game on my radar for some time and finally played it. I liked the game and overall story and characters. And generally, I will still recommend the game. There is a lot of fun stuff to get from this. Some fun jokes and stuff but.. BIG BUT.. be warned! There is no free roam post-game, no chapter selection, and no manual saving. Noting. And quite a lot of missable stuff. Also, there is no skip option for cutscenes and stuff.. so replayability is kinda not there and not fun at all. Which is quite sad. I would love to replay the game and make some different choices and find more secrets. Also, it seems like the devs behind the game don't really do updates on the game. The game is very polished but I did encounter some really annoying bugs in the endgame. To conclude this: The game is fun for a one-time experience. No replayability. 8-10 hours for a full playthrough. And I want to add that I thought that there were some weird choices for the story sometimes. Stuff that just leaves me a bit in confusion and maybe even sadness. I feel like this game is an almost polished gem that got abandoned in the last 10%.

Aug. 2024

Good game. Not amazing, but enjoyable with a decent runtime (5-6 hours). "Tragicomic" is a good description for the mood, which balances meta-humor and snark with impending existential doom. Game also gets a cookie because I only broke out of the map once in the course of normal play, and a well-developed autosave/checkpoint system meant recovery was smooth. Bravo, devs. Two technical quibbles: -This game takes up nearly 35 GB of harddrive space, I'm not sure why. -There was one level (The Art Gallery) with very bad graphics stutter (AMD Ryzen 5900X, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080), but the rest of the game was fine. Not sure what was happening there.

March 2024

Great game, loved the story and the puzzles especially the great endings!

Feb. 2024

Fun, quirky and challenging puzzle game. Has a charming story told in a perspective I've never seen before and many references to Computer Science topics so if you're in that area, you should most definetly give it a try!

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Steam reviews	21 January 2025 23:56

14.99€

8.6

365

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Developer

Naraven Games

Publisher

All in! Games, Untold Tales

Release 30 Jan 2023

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