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 383 reviews of which 359 were positive and 24 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 5.99€ on Steam and has a 60% discount.

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

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

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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Nov. 2024

Overall a pretty enjoyable game. If you like The Stanley Parable and Portal, this is very much in line with that level of humor. Voice acting is good and gameplay is fun. I ended up hitting a bug in my play through but it's still a interesting concept.

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!

Jan. 2024

A wonderful game that I can't describe the depths of my emotions for without giving spoilers! Love the characters, loved the world, it was fun to play, the voice acting was great, everything that there is nice to say about this game, I'd say it! (P.S. If there's ever merch of the adorable in-game toys, I'd buy them in a heartbeat!)

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