Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
All comments (25)
M0nk3h
9 Feb 171#1
An exceptional game to play... if you've got a few hours. Don't get me wrong, it's a game that is astoundly great but the fact it's short let's it down for me. Hot for the price though.
nomisco to M0nk3h
9 Feb 17#2
Am I to understand that it's quite short and linear, with little replay value?
fuzzle3
9 Feb 172#3
Yeah those exact three things. But it's good, very charming little game.
crazygoog
10 Feb 17#4
My favourite game of last year. It's short, but felt the pacing was about perfect. Compare this price against the cost of going to the cinema. Similar price, but for me this feels far better value.
clonereeco
10 Feb 17#5
Just finished this on ps4 and I enjoyed it but I don't think it's for everyone , all about the dialogue and story , I was a little disappointed by the ending but I was impressed with the voice acting and care that went in to making this game
gsusx to clonereeco
10 Feb 17#6
Yeah really agree with this. It's good and the acting is brilliant but for me the story let me down in the end. Worth the money at that price
dai.bonehead
10 Feb 17#7
It's ok. But if you want an engaging story and characters you'd better of spending the cash on a good book.
dai.bonehead
10 Feb 171#8
Oh! Play life is strange instead or as well as this.
aj_nu to dai.bonehead
10 Feb 17#11
Life Is Strange was SO good! Is this quite similar then?
propagandapanda
10 Feb 17#9
Such a boring game. It was the most dissapointing game in 2016 for me.
Reading reviews, the hype and all....maybe it's just me. The game had no climax at all.
bloooo to propagandapanda
10 Feb 17#10
I really enjoyed the game right up until the end, I agree it was very anticlimactic
M0nk3h to propagandapanda
10 Feb 17#18
It is certainly just you.
callum84 to propagandapanda
10 Feb 17#20
You clicked on the wrong thread mate.
No mans sky is on next page.
prettejohn
10 Feb 171#12
Great game. If you like a story and atmosphere then it's worth it. Quite short but we need more games like this
crazygoog to prettejohn
10 Feb 17#13
Couldn't agree more. It obviously divides opinion and everyone wanting the big blockbuster ending. But that isn't real life. This feels real.
ollie87
10 Feb 17#14
Firewatch is great.
Wouldn't really call it a 'game' though, more a hiking simulator.
hjkiu789
10 Feb 17#15
great find ,thx
azual
10 Feb 17#16
crap ending
olivermills6
10 Feb 171#17
The comments on here don't do the game justice. It's a game, not a hiking simulator at all. Its focus is the story, characters and acting, but it doesn't feel like you aren't in control at all, the conversation flows freely and you can choose to do or not do things. It's beautiful, and the ending was pretty good I thought. It's not too short, you shouldn't extend a story for the sake of it. People would say a 4 hour film is far too long even though it costs more than this game. The gaming market is full of needlessly long games that become drab quite quickly, that's why people expect this game to be longer. It's strange because as attention spans get shorter, people seem to be able to do the same thing over and over again for more hours than ever before.
bobmorley
10 Feb 17#19
Sounds like one to pirate then
Helgrr
10 Feb 17#21
Honestly clicked this cos I need to replace my smoke alarm, eventhough I actually saw it on steam sale earlier DOH!
hotukmeats
10 Feb 17#22
Heat added.
It's the same price on gog.com if you prefer to buy from there.
Spookydarren
10 Feb 17#23
Or wait for it on PS+? (if you have a PS4 of course)
I've been holding off as been burn't too many times, also cos trying to work my way through backlog and resisting sales.
iwo
10 Feb 17#24
How is optimisation on the PC version? I'm AMD. Is there more gameplay in this as opposed to something like Ethan Carter, or Gone to the Rapture?
olivermills6 to iwo
10 Feb 17#25
Runs really smoothly on my GTX 970, sorry that's the best I can offer. It's about on par in terms of length with those two games. I slightly preferred it over both of them.
Opening post
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
All comments (25)
Reading reviews, the hype and all....maybe it's just me. The game had no climax at all.
No mans sky is on next page.
Wouldn't really call it a 'game' though, more a hiking simulator.
It's the same price on gog.com if you prefer to buy from there.
I've been holding off as been burn't too many times, also cos trying to work my way through backlog and resisting sales.