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Backfire

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Backfire

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A single-player arcade shooter where your bullets ricochet against enemies and walls. It's a bullet hell game too, if you shoot enough.

Year
2020
Developer
Eathams
Publisher
Eathams

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STORY

Backfire has an arcade-inspired art style, complete with rudimentary sound effects. Using either a keyboard/mouse or a gamepad, you'll traverse through the mothership fighting not only enemies, but yourself.

Take control of Spike (or Sotira, if that's your taste) to fight against the aliens and space robots threatening humanity.

Every bullet you fire will ricochet off walls. The more you shoot, the deeper you descend into the depths of bullet hell. While keeping your shooting to a minimum, you'll have to dodge enemy bullets that are equally dangerous (and bouncy).

You're not alone, though! Through a mysterious transmission, you can buy upgrades for your ship using chips acquired from enemies you defeat.

1CC RUNS

One-credit clears we point to as the benchmark for this game.

STORES

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Price
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Lowest ever
No buy option

Prices are cached from each storefront and may be out of date. Last checked 24 Sept 2026. We checked Steam and found no way to buy it there right now.

RELEASES 3 systems

System
Platform
Year
Notes
PC
Windows
2020
Original release
IOS
iOS
2019
AND
Android
2019

GAME DATA

Danmaku
Yes
Wanted by
13 on ITAD waitlists

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