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~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.
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.
Ways to play
Modes
Single player
Perspective
First person
Languages (10)
| Language | audio | subtitles | interface |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese (Simplified) | — | ||
| English | |||
| Finnish | — | ||
| French | — | ||
| German | — | ||
| Japanese | — | ||
| Polish | — | ||
| Portuguese (Brazil) | — | ||
| Russian | — | ||
| Spanish (Spain) | — |
Also known as
backfireWall_ — Stylized title
Backfirewall_.exe — Windows Executable
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Facts
Developer
Publisher
All in! Games, Untold Tales
Released
30 January 2023
Platforms
PCWindowsPlayStationPS4XboxXbox OnePS5
Age ratings
ESRBTPEGI12GRAC12+ACBPG
Standing
Top 94% by 24hr peak players
Tags
1st-personReal-timePuzzle elementsDirect controlSci-fi / futuristic
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