Firewatch
Firewatch is a single-player first-person video game where you, as a man named Henry, explore the Wyoming wilderness after taking a summer job as a fire lookout. What is supposed to be a peaceful respite from…
Firewatch is an adventure developed by Campo Santo, released 9 February 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux. It currently starts at $3.99 at GOG. The main story takes about 4.7 hrs to finish.
What Firewatch is
Firewatch is an adventure game developed by Campo Santo and released in 2016. It was published by Panic. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The year is 1989. You are a man named Henry who has retreated from your messy life to work as a fire lookout in the Wyoming wilderness. Perched atop a mountain, it's your job to find smoke and keep the wilderness safe. An especially hot, dry summer has everyone on edge. Your supervisor, a woman named Delilah, is available to you at all times over a small, handheld radio—and is your only contact with the world you've left behind. But when something strange draws you out of your lookout tower and into the world below, you'll explore a wild and unknown environment, facing questions and making interpersonal choices that can build or destroy the only meaningful relationship you have.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are drama, mystery and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 10 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Firewatch holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 11 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 1,223 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 4.7 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $3.99, that works out to about $0.85 per hour of the main story, or $0.69 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3 2.00 GHz or AMD equivalent, 6 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 450 or higher with 1GB Memory. An 6GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 4GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $3.99 at GOG, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Firewatch launched on 9 February 2016, within three weeks of Stardew Valley, The Witness, SuperHot and XCOM 2. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Stardew Valley, The Witness, SuperHot, XCOM 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Firewatch yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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