Henry and Delilah are well-written and well-acted, by Mad Men’s Rich Sommer and Cissy Jones of Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead: Season One. Moment-to-moment, these interactions are the game’s best stuff. And that’s pretty much the whole game.įirewatch doesn’t quite have the writing chops to be a strong mystery, and it doesn’t bring the gameplay chops to make you feel like you’re an integral part of it. You navigate the forest with your map and compass, you radio Delilah with your findings along the way, and you choose dialogue options to respond to her questions. On Henry’s first day, he’s sent to stop someone lighting off fireworks in the dry-as-kindling woods and winds up getting into a yelling match with a couple of drunk teens. For the player, that aspect of his personality is somewhat distant, however - when the player picks up with Henry, it’s at the start of his relationship with Delilah, another fire lookout in the national forest and his supervisor.Īll of Firewatch is conversations between Henry and Delilah, and hiking around the forest. Henry’s summer away comes after his wife develops early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, and his life crumbles under the weight of her affliction. It’s a summer of being alone, hiking, drinking, and (apparently) trying to write something. His job: sit in a lookout tower and watch for smoke, in hopes of identifying and stopping wildfires before they rage out of control. After an intense, text-only opening that’s designed to pull sharply at the heart-strings, he takes a job as a fire lookout in Wyoming for a summer. Protagonist Henry is having some troubles at the outset of Firewatch.

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