Backfirewall_

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Backfirewall_

Short description

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!

Developer
Naraven
Publisher
All in! Games, Untold Tales
Release
Mon, Jan 30, 2023
Price
$14.99
Reviews
358
Positive
91%
Followers
2,355
Owners (estimated)
50K – 100K
Concurrent players
n/a
Genres
Adventure, Casual, Indie
Features
Full controller support
Tags
Adventure Narration Comedy Casual First-Person Story Rich Puzzle Exploration Funny Singleplayer Indie 3D Physics Minimalist
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$220ksomewhere between $98k and $1.4m · roughly 7K–100K copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $13.67, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $14.99 launch price. That is 9% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

13 data points since Jul 27, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$217k → ~$220k
Reviews 353 → 358
Followers 2,356 → 2,355
Price $5.24 → $14.99
Positive reviews 90.4% → 90.8%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 113 further data points reach back to Jan 1, 2023 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

The dashed line marks Jul 28, 2026, when steamlense started measuring. Everything to its left was backfilled from public sources — monthly review counts from Steam, price changes from IsThereAnyDeal, monthly player averages from SteamCharts. Those are monthly figures, so the curve is coarser there — one point a month instead of one a day.

Lowest recorded price: $4.94 on Sep 16, 2026.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around Backfirewall_ is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Adventure + Narration + Comedy

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Similar games that found an audience

Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with Backfirewall_. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.

Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
Maize Maize Finish Line Games 4 titles 4 − Narration − Casual + Indie + Puzzle $9.99 791 88% Thu, Dec 01, 2016 $335k
$149k – $4.7m
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$50k – $201k
night nite night nite LuuuLuuuL 29 titles 4 − Narration − First-Person + Cute + Walking Simulator $2.99 77 87% Fri, Dec 22, 2023 $9k
$4k – $17k
My Klutzy Cupid My Klutzy Cupid Hulotte 3 titles 4 − Narration − First-Person + Visual Novel + Romance $29.99 58 86% Fri, Jul 21, 2023 $75k
$33k – $133k

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