Underplayed Gems

BackfireWall (2023)

BackfireWall cover
Developer
Naraven Games
Publisher
All In! Games
Platforms
Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Genres
Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Rating
3.8 of 5, 2 player ratings
Where to get it
PlayStation Store

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How it feels

A quirky, lightly melancholic puzzle adventure where you navigate a smartphone's internal world to preserve its old operating system.

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It is a first-person tragicomic narrative adventure game that’s set inside a smartphone. You are the update assistant – solve puzzles to counter the update and save the previous operating system from deletion.

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