Firewatch

XBox Game

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A very linear, but absorbing story. You are cast as a student isolated in a watch tower for the summer with your only contact a fellow watcher on your portable radio. Other characters move in the periphery and there is clearly a mystery to be solved here, which the games play moves you through. There was something I failed to find in the tent (got scared about being caught!) and went back to the cabin on stilts, but had to do it all again the next day before I could move on. Quite a lonely experience (deliberately), but beautifully rendered and I for one could lose my bearings within 50 feet of the watch tower so perhaps I’m not the woodsman I thought I was. Would like to try more games like this.

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