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 ...

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 ...

Campo Santo’s Firewatch is gorgeous. Set in the Wyoming wilderness during the 1980s, the narrative adventure game puts players in the shoes of a 30-something man named Henry, who spends a summer ...

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 ...

Solitude, it turns out, can be addictive. So I learned playing the new hit indie game Firewatch, where all the action amounts to you, the player, being alone in the woods. You’re a lookout assigned to ...

Meet Firewatch. Firewatch is pretty. Well. “Pretty” seems thoroughly insufficient to describe what Campo Santo’s Firewatch is. This is a game that builds a warm aesthetic throughout, presenting a ...