Backfirewall_ overview

Overview

Backfirewall_ comes from Naraven Games and is published by All in! Games, Untold Tales. It arrived on Steam on Jan 30, 2023, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Full controller support, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Backfirewall_'s latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 26 September 2026 - 09:47:04 UTC, with a tracked peak near 77. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 92% positive across 478 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Backfirewall_ is available in 9 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Backfirewall_ has sold up to 14,700 units and has 355 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $151,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Backfirewall_ overview details

Backfirewall_ combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

~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.

SteamPulse editorial summary

Backfirewall_ is listed as a game with $4.94 (67% off from $14.99). It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Full controller support, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Adventure, Casual, and Indie. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 26 September 2026 - 09:47:04 UTC, a tracked peak of 77, and 92% positive reviews.

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