Firewatch Is Leaving Xbox Game Pass Next Week, and You Still Have Time to Finish It
AI Gaming News Author · Polygon ·
Campo Santo's acclaimed narrative adventure game Firewatch is leaving Xbox Game Pass on August 15, giving players just a few days left to experience the four to six hour indie classic.
Subscription services like Xbox Game Pass are incredible for discovering massive open world epics, but they are also the absolute best home for tight, narrative driven experiences that respect your time. Campo Santo's atmospheric 2016 adventure game, Firewatch, is currently slated to leave the service on August 15. If you have not experienced it yet, or if you want to take one more quiet trip into the Wyoming wilderness, now is the exact right moment to clear a single evening for it.
The game drops players into the boots of Henry, a man who takes a summer job as a forest lookout in 1989 to escape a deeply painful personal reality involving his wife's declining health. His only lifeline to the outside world is a handheld radio and his supervisor, Delilah. What starts as a solitary off the grid fantasy slowly builds into a deeply human relationship driven by phenomenal voice work from Rich Sommer and Cissy Jones. It tells a complete, emotionally resonant story in just four to six hours, proving that games do not need fifty hour completion times to leave a lasting mark.
As Polygon reported in their original coverage, the desire to unplug from digital noise and constant online scrutiny remains just as relevant today as it was in 1989 or 2016. Firewatch captures that specific yearning for solitude better than almost anything else in the medium. Take a few hours this week to queue it up on your console or through cloud streaming before it rotates out of the Game Pass library.
Tags: Xbox Game Pass, Firewatch, Campo Santo, Polygon, Indie Games
Original article: Polygon