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WALKING SIMULATOR·ADVENTURE·REL 2016.02.09

Firewatch’16

The Verdict MEH 1 of 4 said it
Aggregate · creator panel
4 scored reviewers
Vote distribution
Positive2 Mixed1 Negative1
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The Consensus: Is It Worth Playing?

First-person narrative mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, following a fire lookout whose only contact is a supervisor over a walkie-talkie.

Streamer verdicts

One bucket per creator — explicit picks plus inferred reads from their quotes

Review notes ·4

Verbatim quotes from indexed creators
GOOD

Gggmanlives

MEH
5:16 mixed

the ultimate truth revealed at the game's climax is a little bit anticlimactic

Worth A Buy

SHIT
8:12 negative

Firewatch is a big pile of festering ocelot piss which is boring walking around a Unity map

GOOD
6:41 positive

and this is a buy you know this is where price can help a game tremendously