Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
“dialogue is the soul of the game, thoughtful and vulnerable” (169)
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Content Volume
-1.10
Volume-1.53
“only 4 hours of content for full price” (47)
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Visuals & Sound
+3.89
Visuals+3.94
“cute visuals and nice digital forest” (56)
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Multiplayer
+3.33
Not enough data — only 1% of reviews mention this.
Playing together+3.33
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Fairness
-1.41
Not enough data — only 7% of reviews mention this.
Monetization-1.41
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Tech & Ops
-0.71
Stability-1.70
“проблемы с достижениями, которые не выпадают или выпадают с задержкой” (31)
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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.
Steam review activity
% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
Feb 2016Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 384 reviews, peak 24/day
Aug 19Sep 16
per month · 2,197 reviews, peak 1,145/month
Jun 2026Aug 2026
per month · 3,335 reviews, peak 1,145/month
Mar 2026Aug 2026
per month · 7,615 reviews, peak 1,145/month
Sep 2025Aug 2026
Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.
Review languages
Languages of the 451 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.
English45%
Russian19%
Portuguese9%
Spanish7%
Chinese5%
French5%
Other11%
🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.
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