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Everything you find helps to shape an interesting narrative that explores some very relatable themes, too.

You’ll want to check every inch of each room to make sure you don’t miss anything that might give you some insight.

The house is completely empty, and something feels off.Īs you work your way through the house, you’ll have to search through draws and cupboards, read notes and messages, and listen to tapes and answering machines, to try to piece together just what has happened while you were away. Set in 1995, you return home after a year abroad to find that your family isn’t there. Instead of exploring the outdoor world, the entirety of the game takes place in a house, but with so many rooms to explore and secrets to uncover, it’s still just as intriguing. It creates what could be seen as an interactive movie, but the participatory nature of the game makes it stand apart from other media in a way that needs to be experienced first hand to fully appreciate.Firewatch is filled with mystery, exploration and an engaging story, and Gone Home packs all of these elements in its own unique way. This is paired with fully voiced story (including a role for Rich Sommer of Mad Man fame). It captures what it's like to be a forest lookout in real life. The game is beautiful to look at and explore. It's a theme that applies to the watchful role of the forest lookouts as well as our main character's relationship with his mentally ill wife. "Somethings we can't stop from happening," one of the characters says in the game.

While many games put you in powerful positions, Firewatch is about powerlessness and empathy.

You slowly uncover a story about loneliness, mental health and catharsis in a grand, sun-drenched landscape. A relationship evolves between the two of them through just these interactions. As you talk on the radio to your controller, you learn more about your character. It has a relational and conspiracy undertone similar to the podcast/radio drama and Netflix show Homecoming. Firewatch is an explorative adventure where you play a fire lookout in America’s Shoshone National Forest.