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ONE IN THE BACK

Point-and-click horror puzzles connecting photographs and shifting viewpoints inside a car

Mr. Jingo · Released Oct 14, 2025

CasualIndieFree To Play

Reviews
Very Positive
96% of 260
Recent reviews
Not enough recent
Players
0
daily peak, Oct 28, 2026
Steam Deck
Untested
Last update on Steam
1 year ago
Sep 17, 2025
Minimum PC
HD 4000
4 GB RAM · 0.5 GB disk
Full requirements

What is ONE IN THE BACK?

A free, single-player 2D puzzle game set in a car, where a wordless story traces the occupants' past events. You examine photographs for clues, switch between characters' viewpoints, and solve escape-room-style puzzles in sequence to progress.

For you if...

  • +you prefer short games you can finish in an evening
  • +you enjoy surreal mysteries with an ominous mood

Not for you if...

  • −you dislike searching images closely for puzzle clues

What players say

96% of 260 reviews are positive

Players praise the artwork and generally approachable puzzles. Some find the story hard to follow, while others report progression problems tied to the display's aspect ratio.

Screenshots and trailer

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ONE IN THE BACK system requirements

Minimum: HD 4000, 4 GB RAM, 0.5 GB of disk space.

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Minimum

OS
Windows 10
Processor
Intel i3
Graphics
Intel HD 4000
Memory
4 GB RAM
Storage
500 MB available space
DirectX
Version 11

Recommended

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

Does ONE IN THE BACK have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Does ONE IN THE BACK run on Steam Deck?

Untested Not yet tested by Valve on Steam Deck.

PC version details

DRM
None declared on Steam
Controller
Keyboard and mouse
Platforms
Windows
Achievements
3
Steam features
Family Sharing
Languages
Text only: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Catalan, Cherokee, Croatian, Dari, Estonian, Filipino, Galician, Georgian, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Igbo, Irish, K'iche', Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Konkani, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Odia, Persian, Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Quechua, Scots, Serbian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorani, Sotho, Swahili, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Tigrinya, Tswana, Turkmen, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Valencian, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu.

Does ONE IN THE BACK use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam

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