Backfirewall_

Released Jan 2023

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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All announced content has been released

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Evaluation

Backfirewall_ launched on January 30, 2023 as a self-contained first-person adventure game. In the more than three years since release, the developer has posted 49 news items, none of which contain any major content releases, feature patches, bug fixes, or announcements of upcoming content. The one relevant post (March 20, 2026) is a publisher anniversary bundle promotion that includes Backfirewall_ as part of a catalog sale — it contains no indication of new or planned content for the game itself. There are no unreleased DLC entries, no roadmaps, and no developer statements about future additions. The game appears to have launched as a complete, finished product and has received no post-launch content updates.

Evidence

Store description presents Backfirewall_ as a self-contained adventure with a defined story and puzzle structure — no mention of post-launch content, seasons, or expansions.

description source content shipped

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Publisher anniversary post promoting a bundle that includes Backfirewall_ at a discount. No mention of new or upcoming content for the game.

news post · Mar 20, 2026 source ambiguous

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Details

Developer

Naraven

Publisher

All in! Games

Achievements

Platform

Windows

Controller

full support

Steam Deck

Verified

Players

Single-player

Adventure Comedy Casual First-Person Story Rich Puzzle Exploration Funny Indie 3D Physics Minimalist

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.