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Can you see the forest for the trees?



<span class="bold">Firewatch</span>, an engrossing first-person mystery about adult relationships under stress, is now available DRM-free on GOG.com for Windows, Mac, and Linux, with GOG Galaxy support for achievements and a 10% launch discount.

Isolation. Suffocating temperatures. The impenetrable Wyoming wilderness. It's one of those risky summer days when Henry's firewatch duty seems refreshingly important but a permeating sense of dread hangs in the atmosphere. Against his better judgement, he will soon find himself out into the wild, aiming to investigate a potential threat to the forest. Strange happenings will soon cause him to start questioning everything, including Delilah, his supervisor that accompanies him through this ordeal via a walkie-talkie.

Not unlike its beautiful setting, Firewatch is better experienced than described. This emotionally-charged mystery turns the untamed 1989 Wyoming setting into the perfect stage for an intense, surreal journey of an isolated man that struggles to stay connected with the outside world. The choices you make and the secrets you uncover will feed into Henry's narrative and ultimately determine how this curious story plays out.



Explore the temperamental human nature as revealed during one man's eventful <span class="bold">Firewatch</span> duty, DRM-free on GOG.com. The 10% launch discount will last until April 15, 1:59 PM UTC.


In the press :
"Gorgeous and clever, Campo Santo's debut is a triumph of craft" - Eurogamer
"Easily one of my favorite and most memorable game experiences of this decade" - IGN
"A rare and beautiful creation, that expands the possibilities for how a narrative game can be presented" - Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Watched Odd's let's play and enjoyed it but feel like I've already played it. Prolly pick it up when it's $5 next year. By then I'll have forgotten the play through. Really enjoyed the art style and voice acting.
Nice to see it released here. As someone who does not likes this genre i got to say that this one definitely stands out, i played it to completion when it first came out like a 2 months ago or so, and got to say that i love it!
Its a nice game, its only flaw is that it uses unity with its integrated phone home feature...
Wishlisted for now
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sixsixfive: Its a nice game, its only flaw is that it uses unity with its integrated phone home feature...
An foil lined umbrella, old Speak-n-Spell with a portable record player, some gears and a rope tied to a tree blowing in the wind?
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Zoidberg: If it wasn't for the regional price difference I would have bought it right away.
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tfishell: What is the price where you are? It's $18 USD.
Same but in euros. 1,80€ store credit. Bah it's OK maybe it'll drop the regional price at one point or I'll get it at the lowest price possible on a sale. :/
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tinyE: The whole game looks like it was designed around and about where I live! XD
Maybe Firewatch developer dedicated this game to you (Life of tinyE). :P
Does the game support gog achievements ?
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Minmataro: Does the game support gog achievements ?
Yeah it does. This is the first time I've seen them in Galaxy.
After Gone Heme, another great walking sim.
Very happy to see this here, and glad I didn't already pick it up on Steam!

Still, it would be nice if publishers decided to do simultaneous releases more often. It happened to me several times already that I ended up with a Steam copy of a game that I didn't expect to be released in a clean version anytime soon.
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CharlesGrey: I'll give it some time and wait for some actual useful, unbiased reviews ( and possibly a sale/discount ).
Impossible. All reviews are biased. Well, except for this one by Jim Sterling. It is a review and it is 100% objective. ;-)
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CharlesGrey: I'll give it some time and wait for some actual useful, unbiased reviews ( and possibly a sale/discount ).
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Nesoo: Impossible. All reviews are biased. Well, except for this one by Jim Sterling. It is a review and it is 100% objective. ;-)
I suppose what I meant was: some reviews which aren't extremely biased, one way or another. Basically, a fair review, which talks about the game's positive and negative aspects, perhaps mentions some similar titles for comparison, and generally provides some useful info for people still "on the fence" about the game. Too many "reviewers" primarily use the review section as a platform to shout out their opinions and personal preferences, without making any serious efforts to actually help other customers.
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Nesoo: Impossible. All reviews are biased.
"- Make sure innocent people don't get hurt.
- Impossible. No person is innocent."
This can unpack into sorites paradox / perfect solution fallacy, so be careful. Just because no review can be COMPLETELY objective according to a PARTICULAR definition of the term, it doesn't mean that we should give up on the idea of preferring more objective ones in any sense. There's a huge distance between "completely subjective" and "completely objective"; The most subjective of things cannot even be communicated and understood by others. I get it that between the descendants of Hegelian Left and Analytical Philosophy people's faith in certain branches of philosophy has been greatly shaken, but complete subjectivism is patently ridiculous. "I like strawberries" is a subjective judgement of taste, but even "I like strawberries BECAUSE they are sweet" tells us something about strawberries. Whether sweetness is a positive or negative quality aside, complex compounds of ideas, intuitions, and comparisons can be used to give people a decent idea of what a given piece of art is. There is taste, but the is also quality that transcends taste, I believe. This can be seem most clearly when people across the board agree on how atrociously BAD amateurish art is, be it crude scribbles, false notes, words haphazardly tossed together, or a buggy mess. What a GOOD game is can be difficult to answer outright, and the question might be better posed in terms of genres, sub-genres or realizations of mechanics, but some agreement can be reached. If it couldn't, reviews would tell us NOTHING "true" about the game, which sounds blatantly false.

tl;dr: Subjectivism is a neat approach, but it fails to account for much of reality.
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tl:dr dont purchase this non-game, just watch a yt of it. It'll be exactly that. Gog, quit putting more walking sims in your catalog, and get real games, can't hope to beat steam that way.