

Despite Ned's confession, Delilah blames him for Brian's death and leaves on the helicopter. The government camp was studying wildlife Ned had been using its radio equipment to ensure no one was looking for him and creating transcripts to scare Henry away. Henry finds Ned's makeshift bunker, along with items stolen from the government camp, the lookout towers, and the teenage girls, whom Delilah confirms has been found safe. Choosing to venture deeper into the wilderness, Ned warns Henry not to look for him. Unwilling to return to society after Brian's death, Ned has secretly lived in the area ever since. Ned claims that Brian's death was accidental and that the boy fell due to climbing inexperience. He follows the signal and discovers a tape from Ned. The wildfire that Henry had spotted and named earlier has grown out of control.Īs Henry prepares to leave, the tracking device begins beeping. The next day, an evacuation order is given for all the lookouts. Deep in the cave, he discovers Brian's body before escaping the cave. Henry uses the found key to enter the cave but is suddenly locked inside by an unseen figure. The next day, someone impersonating Henry calls another lookout and claims that Delilah knows the cause of the station fire, putting her and Henry more on edge. Delilah reports a figure in Henry's tower when Henry arrives, he finds a Walkman taped to the door with an incriminating recording of Henry and Delilah's discussion about destroying the government camp. The next day, Henry uses the tracking device to find a backpack with a key to the locked cave. As Henry hikes home, however, someone sets fire to the camp. Henry and Delilah discuss destroying the government camp but decide against it. He also discovers a tracking device, which he takes with him. He breaks in and discovers surveillance equipment and typewritten reports detailing his and Delilah's conversations and private lives. In a meadow referred to on the clipboard letterhead, he finds a fenced-off government research area. He is knocked unconscious by an unseen assailant and wakes up to find the clipboard and radio gone. Two weeks later, Henry discovers a radio and a clipboard while fishing, with notes including transcripts of his conversations with Delilah. Two months after Henry started his job, a small wildfire breaks out south of his tower. Fearing an inquiry, Delilah falsifies reports to say that neither she nor Henry encountered the girls. He and Ned left abruptly and never returned. Though it is against the rules for employees to bring their children to the towers, Delilah was fond of Brian and lied about his presence. Ned was an outdoorsman who drank heavily due to his traumatic experiences in the Vietnam War, while his son, Brian, enjoyed fantasy novels and role-playing games.

Henry finds an old backpack, and a disposable camera belonging to a boy named Brian Goodwin, whom Delilah explains was the son of Ned, a former lookout. He and Delilah plot to scare the girls off, but when he finds the girls' campsite ransacked and abandoned, they begin to worry. He finds it cut, with a note signed by the teens. The next day, Delilah asks Henry to investigate a downed communication line. He returns to his watchtower to find it ransacked. He comes across a locked cave on his way home and spots a shadowy figure watching him before disappearing. Henry discovers a pair of teenage girls, who accuse him of leering. On his first day, Delilah, a lookout in another watchtower, contacts him via walkie-talkie and asks him to investigate illegal fireworks by the lake. In the spring of 1989, after his wife develops early-onset dementia, Henry takes a job as a fire lookout in Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming. The game is a story-based first-person exploration title which follows a Shoshone National Forest fire lookout named Henry and his supervisor Delilah as mysterious events begin to occur one month into Henry's tenure. It later came to the Xbox One on September 2016. It officially began development in January 2014 and was released on PC, Mac, Linux and Playstation 4 in February 2016. Firewatch is the debut title from the independent studio Campo Santo.
