ONE IN THE BACK
Point-and-click horror puzzles connecting photographs and shifting viewpoints inside a car
Mr. Jingo · Released Oct 14, 2025
- 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
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
ONE IN THE BACK system requirements
Minimum: HD 4000, 4 GB RAM, 0.5 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run ONE IN THE BACK?
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- 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