Backfirewall_

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~A tragicomedy in your smartphone. ~ Backfirewall_ is a first-person tragicomic adventure that takes place inside a smartphone.

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Developer:
Naraven Games
Publisher:
All In! Games
Release date:
30 January 2023
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Recent Steam reviews:
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All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (349)

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Description

~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.

Recommended 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

User reviews

PC Bleater
Recommended | 13 Jan 2026
10.9h played

A fully narrated first-person puzzle-adventure - think The Stanley Parable or Dear Esther, but with considerably more actual gameplay. The game takes place in the world of an anthropomorphized phone, where the operating

Helpful: 5
booboostew
Recommended | 16 May 2026
10.8h played

played the demo before the game came out and enjoyed it so much i picked up the game when it released! took me a few years to actually get around to playing it, but it was a really fun experience. plan to pick it up

Helpful: 0
forestsandtea
Recommended | 12 Jun 2025
10.4h played

Love this little game. The story is so fun, and characters are all hilarious, and overall I enjoyed it immensely. It does have some major bugs though. I had the game crash a few times, the bgm would suddenly stop, and

Helpful: 0
LeKnuth
Not recommended | 04 Jan 2026
5.0h played

This one was just not for me. The idea is great and the game has some very clever moments (especially towards the end), but the gameplay just didn't engage me much. I forced myself to finish it because I knew it would

Helpful: 2
AntonyMo
Recommended | 04 Mar 2026
6.2h played

A lovely puzzle-adventure game with charming presentation. The style either works for you or it doesn't, and oh boy I sure adore these little processes None of the puzzles were anything remotely hard but they were

Helpful: 2
jtopia
Recommended | 02 Apr 2026
10.0h played

the quality. the premise, the gameplay, everything this game has to offer makes it an amazing contender for a huge indie title, though its still so unknown and underappreceated its mindboggling. play this game

Helpful: 0