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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.
👁️🗨️ Review terminal errors in RAM, party in the Speakers’ exclusive nightclub, navigate through the Wi-Fi bureaucracy, and explore other areas of a smartphone.
👁️🗨️ Hunt down or create bugs, trim binary trees, master music-controlled platforms, collect errors, and delete data using special cheat-codes.
👁️🗨️ 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.
👁️🗨️ Collect emails scattered about to discover a parallel story of the mysterious phone User.
👁️🗨️ Enjoy meta satirical humor and breaking the fourth wall.
Backfirewall_
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!
Reviews
355
Very Positive
Positive
90.4%
321 positive
Followers
2.4K
Est. WishlistsestiProxy: followers × 12 (industry heuristic)
28.8K
Est. OwnersestiBoxleiter method: reviews × 32
11.4K
Est. RevenueestiEst. owners × ~62% of list price
$105.6K
Price (US)
$14.99
Release
Jan 30, 2023
About
~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.
Estimates — owners use the Boxleiter method (reviews × 32), wishlists proxy followers × 12, revenue uses ~62% of list price × est. owners. These are rough industry heuristics, not official data.
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