She knows the area well, revealing its history and pointing you in the right direction if you get lost.
As you wander the wilderness and investigate, among other things, plumes of smoke and a couple of rowdy teenagers setting off fireworks, you can point at something-a landmark, an lost backpack, a cave, whatever-and bring up the walkie-talkie to ask her about it. The relationship is playful and a joy to eavesdrop on. Tomorrow, your new life begins.ĭelilah apologies the next day, and a friendship begins to bloom. Exhausted from the trip and caught off guard by her probing, you avoid the question and go to sleep. This is Delilah, a fellow lookout who introduces herself by brazenly, and slightly mischievously, asking what happened in your life that made you want to take a job all the way out here. As you enter, a walkie-talkie crackles to life and a warm, dulcet voice urges you to pick it up.
I won’t say what he’s escaping from, because it’s better if you find out yourself, but it’s enough to make a man in his forties leave the world behind and hike for two days into the middle of nowhere.Īfter a long trek through the woods, you finally reach the tower. Some people flee to Antarctica-the subject of Werner Herzog documentary Encounters at the End of the World-while others, like our hero, prefer the vast, forested wildernesses of North America. People who take jobs like this usually are. Henry, the protagonist of Firewatch, is running away. It’s a lonely job in a lonely place, but that’s exactly what you wanted. And as a newly hired fire watchman at Two Forks Lookout, it’s your job to spot these fires, report them, and stop them spreading. Over 60% of this rugged, alluring landscape is covered in fir, pine, and spruce trees, which makes the area prone to wildfires. Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming is a picturesque 2.5 million acre expanse of forests, canyons, lakes, mountains, and rivers. Reviewed on GeForce GTX 970, Intel i7-950, 16GB RAM What is it? A first-person adventure game about a fire watchman.