20 Best Video Game Storylines Of The Decade (So Far)
8. Firewatch
Firewatch, weirdly, is one of the most divisive games of the past few years. For some, its incredibly atmospheric and isolating contemplation of loss and responsibility was exactly what they needed after an overblown year of bombastic shooters, yet others expected some kind of last-minute twist that would take what's ostensibly two characters talking for four hours into Twin Peaks territory.
Thankfully however, the game clicks much more as an understated personal experience, and like Gone Home before it, works entirely because it gets you into the heads of the characters as they overthink their situation and become paranoid about the strange events that are happening to them.
Although the eventual reveal of what's going on isn't a mind-blowing twist, it doesn't matter in the long run because the campfire mystery was never what Firewatch was about in the first place. Instead, if you place your focus on the characters and the way they deal with their issues and how their relationship changes as the game goes on then you're in for one of the best indie narratives of the past few years.