Several hours into Firewatch, a character told me over my radio that she is “as real as the sky is blue.” I looked up. The sky was orange and obscured by smoke. It was at this point that I didn’t ...

When developer Campo Santo released Firewatch in 2016, it was an unexpected hit. A debut title launching from a tiny indie studio with zero combat and doing really well is usually the stuff of fantasy ...

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Firewatch takes place at a "a very specific time at a very specific place," Ng said: the Wyoming wilderness of 1989. Players will take on the role of Henry, a portly, middle-aged man alone in the wild ...

Firewatch is full of excellent dialogue, breathtaking moments, and stunning vistas, but ultimately amounts to nothing much at all. It’s 1989. Summer. Wyoming. Channeling your inner Kerouac, you’ve ...

How a small team set out to tell an intimate personal drama within the vastness of the Yellowstone National Park The outdoors in Firewatch isn’t like the outdoors in most games. It feels somehow ...

Gorgeous and clever, Campo Santo's debut is a triumph of craft - but it may keep you at arm's length. Her first question is: what's wrong with you? That's Delilah, Henry's new boss, talking to him ...

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Firewatch is a story of a lonely man in a big country, presented as a series of prettily frescoed spaces, strung together for the player to explore in exacting chronology. The player strolls along ...

A fire burns in the distance. With the sun having long since disappeared below the horizon and endless acres of forest warding off the artificial light of civilization, its flames flood the night sky ...