AdventureFit check
Is Backfirewall_ worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players who enjoy first-person puzzle adventures set in unusual environments
- Fans of satirical stories involving talking software and fourth-wall breaks
- Players who want collectible emails alongside a central adventure
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking combat-focused gameplay rather than environmental puzzles and exploration
- Players looking for an open-ended or highly replayable structure instead of a directed story adventure
- Players seeking a conventional fantasy, science-fiction, or real-world setting rather than a smartphone interior
Our take on Backfirewall_
The defining premise is that the entire adventure takes place inside a smartphone, with the player acting as an update assistant trying to stop OS9 from being deleted.
What is Backfirewall_?
Backfirewall_ is a first-person adventure set inside a smartphone, where the player acts as an update assistant trying to stop an update from deleting the operating system OS9.
Progress involves exploring phone areas such as RAM, speakers, and Wi-Fi systems while solving puzzles involving errors, binary trees, music-based platforms, and data. Special cheat-codes allow changes to the environment, including creating or tracking bugs and removing data. Software characters inhabit the device, including Photos, Social Media F, and Health, each with separate perspectives and side stories. Emails found throughout the phone reveal another narrative about its User. The game also uses satirical humor and fourth-wall breaks.
How Backfirewall_ plays
- 01Smartphone setting
- The adventure moves through internal phone spaces, including memory, audio, and wireless-network areas.
- 02Environment manipulation
- Cheat-codes can alter surroundings through actions such as generating bugs, gathering errors, and removing data.
- 03App characters
- Personified software characters offer opinions about the update, their administrator, and the phone's User.
- 04Email collectibles
- Collected messages reveal a parallel account connected to the mysterious User.
- 05Fourth-wall humor
- The game uses meta satire as part of its comedic tone.
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Backfirewall_: platforms & release
Is Backfirewall_ worth it?
It is worth it if: players who enjoy first-person puzzle adventures set in unusual environments. Skip it if: players seeking combat-focused gameplay rather than environmental puzzles and exploration.
Where can I download Backfirewall_?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Backfirewall_'s store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Backfirewall_ on?
Windows only.
