The game is primarily focused on exploring questions about human psyche, and as such is in many ways perfect for starting a conversation about dementia.
And the more you and Delilah attempt to figure out what is going on, the more sure you both become that someone is watching you. Everything in the forest seems normal until two teenage girls go missing, someone cuts the phone line to your stations, and your lookout tower is ransacked. The game falls under the unfortunately named walking-simulator genre, and is more psychologically oriented than it is action based. (If you haven’t played the game, prepare for spoilers.)įirewatch puts players in control of Henry, a middle-aged man who, in search of an escape, has taken an isolating job as a fire lookout in Shoshone National Forest after his wife, Julia, develops dementia. Your only human interaction during the summer is Delilah, another fire lookout whom you regularly talk to via walkie-talkie. Instead, I want to look at a central aspect of the game that the countless articles online fail to really discuss (or at least discuss well): loving someone with dementia.
(Wondering why it took me so long to play a game I was so desperate to dive into? Read this post from last week.) I know I am late to the party, and that tons of people have written about the game already, so I am not going to talk about all the reasons I loved the game (I did) or how visually stunning it is (it really is). After months of staring longingly at the trailer and all the gorgeous screenshots online, I finally got to play Firewatch this past weekend.
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