15 Essential Video Games Worth Buying A PlayStation 4 For

12. Firewatch

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Camp Santo

Firewatch's greatest strength, without the slightest doubt in my mind, is how 'normal' its entire world is. Campo Santo set out to craft a focused, real and relatable story about escapism and the futility of trying to run away from responsibility, and that's exactly what they did. No compromises.

There's no traditional quests to beat, worldwide threat to conquer or levelling up to trudge through here - this is just a story about a man who will one day have to return to his past life, no matter how much he tries to avoid it.

Through clever misdirection and playing on established tropes, you're led to believe there's some sort of grander adventure awaiting Henry out there in the wilderness but, like all seemingly complex mysteries, the most logical answer is usually the correct one.

Firewatch's ending has been criticised for not having some marvellous revolutionary ending, but I'm glad it doesn't, as it was never supposed to be that type of game in the first place.

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