Ever since we announced our first-person mystery, we here at Campo Santo have had one question put to us more than any other:“Why aren’t there any guns in your game?”Well, we talked it over, but we figured we’d stick to our lack of guns. In Firewatch, you play as a man named Henry, who’s retreated from his messy life for the summer to take a job as a Wyoming forest fire lookout. You are in constant radio communication with your supervisor Delilah — your only remaining link to the outside world.
Firewatch is the debut title from the independent studio Campo Santo. It officially began development in January of 2014 and was released on PC, Mac, Linux and Playstation 4 in February 2016. It later came to the Xbox One on September 2016. Get Firewatch, Mystery, Adventure game for PS4™ console from the official PlayStation® website. Know more about Firewatch Game. Firewatch is a mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio. Firewatch Game PS4 - PlayStation.
But as the hot, dry summer progresses, increasingly strange events draw you out of your tower and into the wilderness to explore an unknown environment, facing questions and making interpersonal choices that can build or destroy the only meaningful relationship you have.Anyway, it just doesn’t really work with guns.So, that’s sorted. The next most common question we get is this one:“Are you going to bring Firewatch to PS4?”We are reminded of this daily. For example:Gentlemen, here is your daily reminder to try and bring to PS4. Cc:— David Ryan (@TheDavidRyan)See?if you could bring please bring Firewatch to the ps4, that would be exquisite. Henry's story seems really cool.!!!— Jean-Luc Clark (@JeanBazing97)I mean, we could use a new wallet or two.PLEASE PLEASE PUT THIS ON OR. I will pay mega money for this.— Isosceles Kramer (@JackChapman117)Especially if those wallets are filled with mega money. Everyone loves mega money.please ps4 please ps4 please ps4— daniel28 (@fuiapraia123)Alright, we get it.We are extremely pleased to announce that Firewatch is currently in development as a console exclusive for PS4, and we’re planning on a 2015 launch.If you aren’t already familiar with Firewatch, we hope you’ll check it out.And if you have been keeping up with the game and politely requesting a PS4 launch — well, it worked.
It’s no exaggeration to say that the flood of PS4 fan support across Twitter, Facebook, email, telegraph, and carrier pigeon was the single biggest factor that led to our decision to support the platform.As a small independent team, we don’t have a lot of resources to spare, so we have to be sure we’re putting our game where people really want to play it. We’re pretty sure we made the right decision on this one, and we’re happy to be aboard.Let us know what you think or ask us any questions below.
We’ll be around to answer them! Firewatch is a game I’ve been interested in for a while but, because I don’t have a great PC, I was holding out hope for something like this. Turns out that hope wasn’t entirely unwarranted and seeing this today was a pleasant surprise. Good luck on the rest of the development cycle, this game seems like it has a lot going for it.PS: Idle Thumbs is one of the highlights of my week and it’s always nice to get more information on just what it is you’ve been working on outside of that. Keep up the good work, on all fronts. We’re trying to make a game in which players make their own different choices, as opposed to “right” or “wrong” choices. There is no fail state in that sense—although you could end up regretting or questioning a choice you have made.There are systemic elements to the world itself—we want it to feel responsive and interactive and alive.
What happened to kaneva. And the dialogue paths are highly complex; any given player is likely to see a minority of the total content. But it is all authored by us, not randomly generated or procedural.