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There's a lot of tension in the game, and as the days tick forward towards the end of summer, players will constantly have more questions than answers, and Firewatch does a great job of keeping the mystery engaging until roughly the last hour. The conversations between the pair, which happen via radio, involved a lot of topics, but the two characters quickly discover that they share a connection and that the events happening around them are more interesting than simply looking around the forest for signs of fire. Main character Henry has a past, revealed in the first few minutes of Firewatch and referenced after that a few times and his dominant interact for the entire summer is with his sort of supervisor Delilah. It's a spoiler to mention almost anything else about the game, and much of its quality comes from the way the narrative draws players in and keeps them engaged for four to five hours, constantly giving them something new to look forward to while playing with their emotions in interesting ways. The game is developed by Campo Santo and can be played on the PC, the PlayStation 4 from Sony and the Xbox One from Microsoft.įirewatch asks gamers to inhabit the body and, to some extent, the mind of Henry, a man who decides to take a job as a fire lookout in a remote park somewhere in Wyoming during the final year of the '80s. The pace of the game picks up soon after, and by the end of the four-hour story, players will have experienced a wide array of emotions, linked to both the main characters and the situation that develops inside the park.įirewatch manages to create a mix of narrative, gameplay, and style that made me want to spend time in the middle of this virtual natural park, both to take in the sights and to explore the increasing feeling of dread and otherworldliness that the game creates as summer progresses. At one point during the first day of Firewatch, I was moving through a canyon, thinking about the way fireworks can cause a major forest fire and I was eager to see another beer can that I could scoop up to keep the environment as pristine as possible.