Games like Backfirewall_
If Backfirewall_ is your kind of game, the closest matches are Viewfinder, Hyperbolica and GlitchSPANKR — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its characters have distinct personalities, atmospheric and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Backfirewall_: 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!
Players who liked Backfirewall_ also play
Steam players who put hours into Backfirewall_ also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Viewfinder
WHY THIS
Top pick for Backfirewall_ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backfirewall_.
Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.
Hyperbolica
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Backfirewall_.
Second-strongest match for Backfirewall_ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backfirewall_.
Hyperbolica is a whimsical Non-Euclidean adventure with mind-bending worlds full of games, puzzles, mazes, and secrets! Immerse yourself in reality-warping geometries where lines can never be parallel, horizons are curved, and space grows exponentially.
GlitchSPANKR
WHY THIS
Shares dialogue choices, exploration and an atmospheric mood with Backfirewall_.
Third-strongest match for Backfirewall_ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Backfirewall_.
GlitchSPANKR is a comedy-driven narrative adventure full of secrets, chaos, minigames, and unexpected choices. Spank, spare, or smooch your way through a corrupted 90s game haunted by a lonely, unstable virus. Every level is different. Every choice matters. Your future is in your wiggly hand.
The Stanley Parable
WHY THIS
Shares exploration, achievement hunting and an atmospheric mood with Backfirewall_.
Ranked #4 for Backfirewall_ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backfirewall_.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Backfirewall_.
Ranked #5 for Backfirewall_ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backfirewall_.
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.
Henry Halfhead
WHY THIS
Shares achievement hunting and a whimsical mood with Backfirewall_.
Ranked #6 for Backfirewall_ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backfirewall_.
Meet Henry, merely half a head, yet with the peculiar ability to become any object within their reach! Discover every object’s unique abilities and cleverly combine them to take Henry through their not-so-ordinary everyday life.
Superliminal
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Backfirewall_.
Ranked #7 for Backfirewall_ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Backfirewall_.
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
Oneiros
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Backfirewall_.
Ranked #8 for Backfirewall_ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backfirewall_.
Will you be able to break the vicious circle? Can you regain control? Experience the surreal adventure filled with many puzzles and psychedelic visions.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Backfirewall_ at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Backfirewall_ on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Backfirewall_.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Backfirewall_ on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Backfirewall_.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Backfirewall_ on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backfirewall_.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Backfirewall_ on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Backfirewall_.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Backfirewall_ on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backfirewall_.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Backfirewall_ on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Backfirewall_.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Backfirewall_ on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Backfirewall_.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Backfirewall_ on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backfirewall_.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Backfirewall_.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Backfirewall_.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Backfirewall_.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Backfirewall_.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backfirewall_.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Backfirewall_.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backfirewall_.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Viewfinder
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backfirewall_.
Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.
Hyperbolica
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Backfirewall_.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backfirewall_.
Hyperbolica is a whimsical Non-Euclidean adventure with mind-bending worlds full of games, puzzles, mazes, and secrets! Immerse yourself in reality-warping geometries where lines can never be parallel, horizons are curved, and space grows exponentially.
The Stanley Parable
WHY THIS
Shares exploration, achievement hunting and an atmospheric mood with Backfirewall_.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backfirewall_.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Backfirewall_.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backfirewall_.
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.
Henry Halfhead
WHY THIS
Shares achievement hunting and a whimsical mood with Backfirewall_.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backfirewall_.
Meet Henry, merely half a head, yet with the peculiar ability to become any object within their reach! Discover every object’s unique abilities and cleverly combine them to take Henry through their not-so-ordinary everyday life.
Superliminal
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Backfirewall_.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Backfirewall_.
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
Frequently asked about Backfirewall_
- How much does Backfirewall_ cost?
- Backfirewall_ is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Backfirewall_?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Backfirewall_ are Viewfinder, Hyperbolica, GlitchSPANKR.
- Who developed Backfirewall_?
- Backfirewall_ was developed by Naraven Games and published by All in! Games, Untold Tales.
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