If it sounds like I’m highlighting how mundane Firewatch is, know that the story is just as captivating as the other games I’ve mentioned. There’s something very real about that dynamic, and I don’t think I’ve ever quite experienced it in a game before. The two aren’t speaking because the world is ending-they’re chatting because they’re bored and lonely. She can be genuinely annoying sometimes, and just as genuinely entertaining.
She jokes with Henry, flirts with him, pesters him. If Henry finds something interesting, you can call her and ask what it is. You never see another soul while you’re wandering the Wyoming National Forest, but Delilah is always right there with you. (I should note that I adore all four of these games-I’m not saying that Firewatch is better. That’s the “quest.” Even Gone Home, which ostensibly also takes place in an everyday setting, lacks the camaraderie and humor that I found in Firewatch. Until Dawn prepped me for atrocities around every corner, but in Firewatch when you have to go tell some teenagers to stop setting off fireworks…that’s it. It isn’t as intense and horrifying as SOMA, and it isn’t as mysterious and tragic as Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture. Gone Home, of course, also comes to mind.įirewatch isn’t as lonely as those other games, though. Until Dawn because, again, gorgeous wilderness, mysteries. Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture because you’re spending a lot of time wandering around in the gorgeous wilderness, looking for interesting things. SOMA, because the format is similar a woman over the intercom, a relationship being developed. The first thing she asks Henry is “so what’s wrong with you?” The idea being that nobody joins the fire service unless something is amiss.Īfter playing Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, SOMA, and Until Dawn this year, I find that it’s hard not to compare those games with Firewatch. Henry is running away from the situation-though it had gone beyond his control long before-by taking a job with the fire service.ĭelilah is the only other major character in the game, and we never see her face. Within the first ten minutes of the game, it becomes apparent that Henry’s wife is ill. The sketch is fully nude, sort of cartoony, and you can tell they were having fun when it was drawn. He’s got a pretty significant belly, which you see in sketch form only-a picture his wife had drawn of him. Your protagonist is in his forties, for one thing, and he’s married, and he’s not particularly cool. I don’t mean that it was filled with sex and violence and gore right off the bat-rather that the story it was telling was one that a kid really wouldn’t be interested in. The first thing that I noticed about Firewatch was that it was more adult than a lot of games I’ve played.
I sort of remembered that it would be a game with dialogue choices, which was enough to get me excited about it. I went into Firewatch knowing almost nothing about it.
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