Firewatch was meant to spark a subgenre but its influence didn't spread. A decade on, we ask why Roblox and Minecraft are ...

The smallest action in Firewatch, putting down an item, speaks volumes. It was a small evolution, but one you can trace ...

These days I tend to enjoy games that are similar to a good book: a solitary, escapist experience I can get completely lost in without any interruptions from the outside world. Firewatch, then – on ...

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 ...

The most gripping part of my six-hour Firewatch playthrough was running for an evacuation chopper through a storm of dirt and smoke as a massive forest fire threatened to engulf me. It also provided a ...

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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 ...