Reviews look positive, but there are only a few so far.
It's at its lowest recorded price, $5.24.
- Story and characters: 146 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 37 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Audio: 34 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Bugs: 7 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 486 player reviews · updated 6 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
Traverse through the smartphone and solve puzzles, meet unique characters, find bunches of collectables, and save the phone from impending "doom".
This game is fantastic, the unforgiving nature of the story progression and inability to access or create backups within a game about backing up a phone is incredibly ironic.
Backfirewall_ is a comedic first-person puzzle/adventure game with a clever premise (you're inside a smartphone and trying to help the current version of the OS prevent himself from being overwritten by an OS update) and amusing writing and voice acting.
I enjoyed the humor and setting, as well as the minimalistic graphics compared to the more complex 3D games.
Optimization needs work.
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 4 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $5.24 (−65%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.
The data behind the verdict
For the players who want the receipts.
We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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