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Backfirewall_

Naraven · All in! Games · 2023-01-30

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AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 30, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S), Jan 30, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 30, 2023 (PlayStation 4), Jan 30, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Jan 30, 2023 (Xbox One), TBD (Nintendo Switch)

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!

0
playing now
91%
positive of 487 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
77/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Backfirewall is a 2023 video game developed by Swiss independent studio Naraven and published by All in! Games. Described as a "tragicomedy set inside your smartphone", the game is a puzzle adventure game in which players traverse levels to sabotage a smartphone to prevent its operating system from updating. Upon release, Backfirewall received positive reviews from critics, with praise directed to the game's narrative, puzzle design, and setting.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 29 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 9% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (91 reviews).
  • · Top 41% of 11,486 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.7k–22k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 487 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.99 at IndieGala Store (2026-04-27) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 36 of 65 observed days · $11.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
828220232026Week of 2023-01-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-08-11 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 20:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$3.972023-01-302026-08-272023-01-30 — best price $7.732023-02-09 — best price $12.442023-04-19 — best price $13.492023-06-27 — best price $12.442023-07-25 — best price $12.442023-09-04 — best price $14.992023-10-12 — best price $9.152023-11-20 — best price $8.992023-12-11 — best price $7.492023-12-24 — best price $9.992024-02-08 — best price $7.492024-02-25 — best price $14.992024-03-14 — best price $7.492024-03-22 — best price $14.992024-03-31 — best price $14.992024-04-29 — best price $7.492024-05-09 — best price $10.252024-06-12 — best price $14.992024-07-08 — best price $10.252024-08-01 — best price $13.052024-09-15 — best price $13.052024-11-27 — best price $5.992025-03-08 — best price $5.992025-07-28 — best price $5.992025-10-22 — best price $5.992025-11-24 — best price $6.002026-01-17 — best price $5.992026-03-04 — best price $5.992026-04-03 — best price $6.002026-04-24 — best price $6.002026-05-06 — best price $4.922026-05-22 — best price $14.992026-06-25 — best price $5.992026-07-27 — best price $5.242026-08-27 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

5902026-06-01 — 7 pageviews2026-06-04 — 9 pageviews2026-06-07 — 8 pageviews2026-06-10 — 8 pageviews2026-06-13 — 3 pageviews2026-06-16 — 8 pageviews2026-06-19 — 1 pageviews2026-06-22 — 6 pageviews2026-06-25 — 5 pageviews2026-06-28 — 3 pageviews2026-07-01 — 5 pageviews2026-07-04 — 3 pageviews2026-07-07 — 2 pageviews2026-07-10 — 6 pageviews2026-07-13 — 2 pageviews2026-07-16 — 2 pageviews2026-07-19 — 4 pageviews2026-07-22 — 7 pageviews2026-07-25 — 4 pageviews2026-07-28 — 1 pageviews2026-07-31 — 5 pageviews2026-08-03 — 0 pageviews2026-08-06 — 2 pageviews2026-08-09 — 6 pageviews2026-08-12 — 12 pageviews2026-08-15 — 11 pageviews2026-08-18 — 4 pageviews2026-08-21 — 6 pageviews2026-08-25 — 8 pageviews2026-08-28 — 2 pageviews2026-08-29 — 1 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

35
achievements tracked
94.1%
earned "GOT IT MEMORIZED?"
33.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)5509%35
PS5 (PlayStation)810%36
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)691%35
PS4 (PlayStation)119%36
PS4 (PlayStation)80%36

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DFunnyIndieCasualComedyPuzzlePhysicsAdventureNarrationMinimalist

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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