Firewatch 2016

Released: February 9, 2016
Anniversary: Turned 10 on February 9
Genres: Adventure · Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4 · Linux · PC · Mac · Xbox One · Nintendo Switch
Developer: Campo Santo
Publisher: Panic
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Where to buy

Digital: GOG $3.99-80% Steam Nintendo PlayStation Xbox

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Is it still worth playing?

Henry takes a job as a fire lookout in the Shoshone National Forest in the spring of 1989, after his wife's early dementia, and the voice on the radio is Delilah, his supervisor. It is a 2016 game for the PC and PlayStation 4, with Xbox One and Switch versions after. You pick what to say to her with a clock running, or say nothing, and the summer's relationship is built out of those replies. It is first person with no combat and no puzzles, a map and a compass in the hand and no marker on the screen, through a forest built from a painting by Olly Moss, after the National Park posters of the New Deal, in oranges and purples at sunset. The radio still connects you to another character you never see, and the story is made of what you chose to tell her.