Question 1

True or false: You can actually encounter other hikers in the game besides Delilah and the main characters.

Accepted Answer

False. The entire game is designed so Henry never meets another person face-to-face, reinforcing the theme of isolation.

Question 2

True or false: The player character Henry's wife Julia has early-onset Alzheimer's disease.

Accepted Answer

True. Julia's diagnosis is revealed in the opening prologue, driving Henry's retreat to the fire lookout tower to escape his failing marriage.

Question 3

True or false: Firewatch was developed by a team of only 12 people over the course of two years.

Accepted Answer

True. Campo Santo, the indie studio, consisted of about a dozen developers and released the game in February 2016 after roughly two years of work.

Question 4

True or false: The game's dialogue system was inspired by the developers' own experience as park rangers.

Accepted Answer

False. The developers never worked as park rangers. The dialogue was inspired by their love of witty, natural banter from films like 'My Dinner with Andre.'

Question 5

True or false: The entire game map is based on a real national park in Wyoming called Shoshone National Forest.

Accepted Answer

False. Shoshone National Forest is real, but Firewatch's setting is entirely fictional, inspired by several Western U.S. wilderness areas.

Question 6

True or false: The game features a fully voiced protagonist, which was a last-minute addition during development.

Accepted Answer

False. Henry was voiced from early on, as the team knew the story relied on two-way radio conversations with Delilah.

Question 7

True or false: Firewatch was originally conceived as a zombie survival game set in the same Wyoming wilderness.

Accepted Answer

True. Early prototypes featured supernatural and zombie elements, but the team pivoted to a grounded story about isolation and human connection.

Question 8

True or false: The voice actor for Delilah also voiced a character in the game 'The Walking Dead' series.

Accepted Answer

True. Cissy Jones, who voices Delilah, also played Katjaa in Telltale's 'The Walking Dead' Season 1 and other roles in the series.

Firewatch Trivia Questions