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!
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Very Positive (273) - 93% of the 273 user reviews for this game are positive.
Release Date:
Jan 30, 2023
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About This Game

~A tragicomedy in your smartphone.~




Backfirewall_ is a first-person tragicomic adventure that takes place inside a smartphone. As the update assistant, you hold the fate of the System in your hands. Will you counter the update and save the chatty operating system OS9 from deletion?

Begin a humorous escapade through various areas of the phone and solve clever puzzles. Meet colorful apps that inhabit the smartphone and have their own opinions about their boss, the update, and the godlike user.

Clever puzzles



👁️‍🗨️ Review terminal errors in RAM, party in the Speakers’ exclusive nightclub, navigate through the Wi-Fi bureaucracy, and explore other areas of a smartphone.

Cheat-codes to manipulate the environment



👁️‍🗨️ Hunt down or create bugs, trim binary trees, master music-controlled platforms, collect errors, and delete data using special cheat-codes.

A variety of app-characters



👁️‍🗨️ Gossip with quirky pieces of software—the sassy Photos, the insecure Social Media F, or the neglected Health, among others—and uncover their distinct side stories.

Numerous collectibles



👁️‍🗨️ Collect emails scattered about to discover a parallel story of the mysterious phone User.

Unproductive and useless humor



👁️‍🗨️ Enjoy meta satirical humor and breaking the fourth wall.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • 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
    Recommended:
    • OS *: 64-bit Windows 7/8.1/10
    • Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 / Intel i7-6700K or Equivalent
    • Memory: 16 GB RAM
    • Graphics: AMD RX Vega 56, NVIDIA GTX 1070/GTX 1660Ti or Equivalent
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 15 GB available space
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.

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