The job entails hiking out to a remote tower in the middle of a vast national park and… well, watching for fires. To get away from things and clear his mind, he takes the fire lookout gig for the summer. His wife Julia has been sick for years and has been put in a home near her parents, and despite his occasional visits Henry feels increasingly disconnected from her. You play as Henry, who takes a job with the National Park Service as a fire lookout in Wyoming. The game is about a schlubby, depressed, bearded guy in his late thirties and the friendship he forms with an alcoholic forty-something woman he only talks to over the radio.
It’s a rare thing, then, to find a game where no one really needs saving, and the protagonists are just flawed, normal people trying to cope and connect under difficult circumstances.Įnter Firewatch, the debut title from Campo Santo, a new indie studio founded by industry veterans from Telltale, Double Fine, and Klei. Players love a good hero’s journey where they’re the hero, but much of the time the stories skip right past the early stages of the journey and get right to the good stuff, the part where our hero is skilled, confident, and ready to save the world. Even our more mundane heroes rise to the occasion, pulled from their nondescript lives and thrust into conflict to achieve their hidden potential.
The chosen one, the detective with psychic powers, the genetically engineered superhuman. So often in games we play as someone special with an extraordinary task.
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