Among the most engrossing story-driven indie games from the past decade is "Firewatch," which was released in 2016. Set in the late '80s, the game has players stationed at a lookout tower in a ...

Several hours into Firewatch, a character told me over my radio that she is “as real as the sky is blue.” I looked up. The sky was orange and obscured by smoke. It was at this point that I didn’t ...

A couple of weeks back, I was wrestling with an article on why I don’t see myself diving into many 2016 video games. The reason: what’s yet to come out in 2015, particularly Fallout 4 and No Man’s Sky ...

Firewatch is an adventure game published by Panic that follows a young man who finds himself deep in the forest. You'll have ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Firewatch celebrated its 10-year anniversary on February 9, 2025.

Xbox recently revealed the next wave of games coming to Xbox Game Pass over the next few weeks. Besides Sea of Stars and Texas Chain Saw Massacre, we're also getting two award-winning indie titles: ...

It started with memories of a lookout tower and the Shoshone National Forest. Memories grew into words, napkin sketches and full-fledged illustrations. Finally computer screens shone with a world both ...

What makes a game a game? That question has arisen around some of the most popular independent video games of the last few years — titles like “Gone Home,” “Her Story” and “That Dragon, Cancer” that ...

A whole bunch of talented game developers have shared the hidden mechanics they implemented in their games to evoke a “certain feeling” from their players, with the creative minds behind Firewatch, ...

“Recommending Firewatch, a four hour game,” reads one popular post on the Xbox Game Pass Reddit page right now. “The power of this game is in the story and the choices you make along the way. It is ...