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Oct 26, 2026
AlejoHOST
Well, I quickly finished
AlejoHOST
playing Firewatch today, and I gotta say, that game is fine.
AlejoHOST
Like, it's just fine, but I would not recommend it to, like, anyone, you know? Everybody's got, uh, or at least from what I've seen on it, it's like mostly positive and all that.
AlejoHOST
Um, but, uh, I just thought it was like, okay, but it's like one of those really forgettable games,
Maddy MyersHOST
You're the Mighty Ducks or whatever.
Kirk HamiltonHOST
And I should mention a thing I did not know when I started this game is that Chris Remo, who's actually a friend of mine, former Idle Thumbs podcaster, worked on Firewatch and some games back in the day, now living in England.
Kirk HamiltonHOST
He and Duncan Fyfe, who also... has written for a lot of different outlets and they're kind of in that same circle.
Kirk HamiltonHOST
They're the two lead writers on this game, which is super interesting.
Kate HunterHOST
There's so many things to discuss just within gameplay alone because I really went into it thinking that this was going to be mostly a walking sim and there is a lot of different kinds of gameplay.
Kate HunterHOST
There are definitely lots of moments that feel sort of like Firewatch or What Remains of Edith Finch that do feel like a walking sim and I would definitely say that's a big part of how you could categorize this game in terms of genre, but there are also puzzles, there's combat, there's recording of sound effects, there's chopping stuff.
Kate HunterHOST
There's so much stuff.
Kate HunterHOST
Lots of puzzles.
Conner McCabeHOST
I know I've got recommendations for you at the end of the show, but this is unrelated to those.
Conner McCabeHOST
Check out Firewatch.
Conner McCabeHOST
This is
James LeightonGUEST
a bonus rec.
Conner McCabeHOST
I do a monthly bonus version of this show that lives on our Patreon and on YouTube.
Conner McCabeHOST
And both inside last October, we did an episode on it.
Conner McCabeHOST
And then Firewatch like three years ago, four of us discussed it.
Conner McCabeHOST
And I thought it was great.
Jess MorrissetteHOST
[laughs]
Ben VigeantHOST
He's later the director of Firewatch.
Jake RodkinGUEST
I guess.
Jake RodkinGUEST
I don't think that's accurate either.
Ben VigeantHOST
[laughs]
Jake RodkinGUEST
The, the, the names of the game are acc-, uh, are accurate, but I don't know if those were really the things I did on any of them.
Jess MorrissetteHOST
Firewatch was me.
Jake RodkinGUEST
Mm-hmm.
KodraHOST
Again, there might be some first-person camera problems, but some of the more classic walking simulators like...
ThalenHOST
Like Firewatch?
KodraHOST
Firewatch...
KodraHOST
Tacoma and Gangano
ThalenHOST
Tacoma was really good I did enjoy that That was one of our games of the month It was supposed to be It was supposed to be our last
Adam ParryHOST
And it's been a while since I've played one of these.
Adam ParryHOST
But it didn't hit me like the old school ones like Firewatch and...
Adam ParryHOST
Oh, what was it called? Edith Finch? Edith Finch, yeah.
Adam ParryHOST
Yeah, games like that I thought were better and a bit more concise.
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Go work at the refinery.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Go watch on Firewatch, bitch-ass nigga.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Go put a 12-hour shift doing that, bitch-ass nigga.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You want to stand around pouring drinks and shit.
AndrewHOST
I don't know if that name means anything to you, but he... worked, I think, at Gamasutra, when Gamasutra was big, like when we were at Silicon Knights.
AndrewHOST
And then he went and worked on, I think, Firewatch.
AndrewHOST
And then those are the guys that got bought out by Steam, by Valve, and then helped on Half-Life Alyx.
AndrewHOST
Or wait, is it Half-Life Alyx? Is that the name of that game? The VR...
AndrewHOST
I know they helped make Half-Life Alyx what it was, which makes sense.
AndrewHOST
But then, I don't know, why wouldn't you just keep throwing money at them and get them to keep making awesome stuff for you? Because
FrankHOST
the art for Firewatch was that other famous graphic designer, right?
AndrewHOST
Yeah.
KyleHOST
Oh.
Ray BarnholtGUEST
Or Firewatch.
Ray BarnholtGUEST
You could play Firewatch, but that skips ahead in the calendar, like, 90 days at one point in the story, isn't it?
KyleHOST
Mm.
KyleHOST
See, that...
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