BackfireWall is an adventure developed by Naraven Games, released 30 January 2023 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What BackfireWall is
BackfireWall is an adventure game developed by Naraven Games and released in 2023. It was published by All In! Games. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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!
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
BackfireWall holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
BackfireWall launched on 30 January 2023, within three weeks of Hogwarts Legacy, Dead Space, Metroid Prime Remastered and Hi-Fi Rush. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Hogwarts Legacy, Dead Space, Metroid Prime Remastered, Hi-Fi Rush.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for BackfireWall yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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