Adventure-comedy game in a smartphone Backfirewall_ launches this month

Backfirewall_

Publisher All in! Games and developer Naraven Games announced a release date for Backfirewall_.

The “first-person tragicomic adventure” is launching on January 30th across Windows PC (via Steam), Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5.


Here’s a rundown on the game, plus a new trailer:

Backfirewall_

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

Features

  • 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.
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