93% | Very Positive
93% of the 372 user reviews on Steam are positive.
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.
| 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 |
| 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 |
