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Firewatch

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.

Developer
Campo Santo
Publisher
Panic, Campo Santo
Franchise
Release date
Feb 9, 2016
Store page updated
Aug 21, 2025
Price
$19.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

83.0/ 100

Based on 451 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 88% of 388
All time 😄 Very Positive 91% of 99,453
“good little experience, happy to have tried it”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
-0.56
Freedom +1.13

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Story & World
+3.34
Story +2.68
“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)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
+3.33

Not enough data — only 1% of reviews mention this.

Playing together +3.33

🔒 1 more indicators

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
50%60%70%80%90%100%
Feb 2016Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 384 reviews, peak 24/day
02550
Aug 19Sep 16

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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