Publisher All in! Games and female-led developer Naraven Games announced their debut commercial title, Backfirewall_, which is now available on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, with a Nintendo Switch platform following later this year. Backfirewall_ is a unique and quirky puzzle game that takes the player on a tragicomic adventure with the sassy self-aware Operating System, OS9, facing replacement by the far-better-optimized OS10. The game depicts the torment of programs whose code is regularly erased and replaced in the cause of technological progress. In this case, OS9’s goal is simple: stop the phone from updating, and stay alive.
Taking on the role of the Update Assistant inside the smartphone’s inner workings, players will explore a weird and wonderful technological setting, brimming with life, telltale conversations, and quirky characters. Players maneuver through an amazing nano-journey where they can manipulate their surroundings to solve puzzles, hunt down bugs, and use cheat codes in an attempt to disrupt the update.
Backfirewall_ launches today with a 10% launch discount available for 10 days on Steam and Xbox storefronts and is priced $14.99 / €14.99 / £11.49.
