ONE IN THE BACK
Mr. Jingo · 2025 · Puzzle, Point & Click, Story Rich, 2D, Third Person
PC
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About ONE IN THE BACK
✦ AI summary
Explore a mysterious car and uncover its dark secrets by solving challenging escape room-style puzzles while piecing together clues from photographs and the vehicle's inhabitants. This text-less psychological horror experience weaves together multiple perspectives and past events through atmospheric 2D visuals and an haunting soundtrack.
Try to piece together clues from various photos as you traverse a car and it's inhabitants - from the trunk to the front seat to the --- -- --- ----.
MAIN FEATURES:
- Escape room-like puzzle system in which several different types of medium to hard difficult puzzles will need to be solved sequentially to progress.
- Text-less narrative with a mysterious cast of characters and portrayal of past events.
- Psychological horror elements from the point of view of multiple characters
- 2D drawn style portraying the main cabin of the car and other areas.
- Ethereal and ominous soundtrack ambience.
CONTROLS:
- Mouse point and click
- Escape to open pause menu
- Space to open photograph UI
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
The music and art are gorgeous! The puzzles weren't too difficult, but also weren't so easy that I was bored. I did encounter an issue during the circuit puzzle where the wrench sometimes refused to turn the nob I needed it to turn. But after a few seconds it would start to work again, so it was only really a problem when trying to get the 'under 10 minutes' achievement. Maybe I was doing something wrong, though.
Neat little game with some mid-level challenging puzzles. I was able to work them out without a walkthrough, without them all being super easy. There are some issues with the sizing of the screen, though: if the aspect ration isn't correct, important parts of the screen end up cut off.
What a bizarre, yet enjoyable little puzzle game. The shifting perspective and a narrative that is completely up for interpretation yet conveyed very well through zero dialogue is really interesting too. It feels like it could be a setup for a deeper storyline or absolutely nothing more than a short story and I think that's perfectly fine. Give One in the Back a shot!
i like art also its easy short game! its also really good that there is a music
A tad confusing at times but overall a fun experience and a cool premise as well. Always love the lore put into these. I will say though that the right hand side of the screen is cut off a bit, so this could use some fixes. Other than that, amazing game!
very cool, and its clear theres lore here even if you don't get too much of it. Leaves lots of room for speculation and hopefully future games! The puzzles are nice, and not so hard that you end up raging at them. Not very long but great for a free game.
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