Firewatch

absolutely boring and bad gameplay

A must play for any story fans. Just play it, you won't be sorry.

This game is something you don't get to experience often. It's linear, pretty, mysterious... Overall a satisfying piece of art

amazing story telling the twists and the end had me at the end of my seat

Firewatch is not meant to be played, but experienced, which isn't necessarily a bad thing if it wasn't for the extreme limited nature of the scope of the game. You hike through an oversaturated, very fake looking scenery, while listening to well acted conversations, which is the driving force of the game - the interactions and deepening relationship between you and your boss on the other end of the line. It's all well written and the story is very good at setting up mysteries, but quickly starts falling apart once you realise the extreme limitations that the game is capable of and that the story is not going to reach great heights because of it. Firewatch is very short and because your choices don't carry weight or have an influence on the story other than some minuscule details, there's very little reason, if any, to ever replay this experience, which for a full price, is a very expensive experience, indeed. This is not a choose your own adventure. It's also a little buggy, which was surprising considering how very simple the game is. Personally, I think this could be a stand out among mobile games, something you get for your iPad to kill a few hours, but despite not being strictly bad in any sense, there are just far, far better adventure games out there, especially for the PC.