Firewatch
Fair · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$3.9980% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $4.88/hr
- ReviewsA
- 91% of 100,143
- Critics
- 81 players 10 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 16% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 4.1h
- To 100%
- 5.2h 1.3x the story
- Achievements
- 10
Price and sales
- Sales
- 48 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 January 2024
- Sale every
- 69d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 121 now
- Recent reviews
- 92% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 92% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
79% start to 8% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 48 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 16 percent. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, INFRA ($29.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats The Vanishing of Ethan Carter ($19.99, scores 52).
More about Firewatch
The press gave it 81; the people who bought it give it 91 percent. A 10-point gap in the buyer's favour.
3 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 4,455 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
100,143 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $3.99 (80% off). Predictions like this were right 91% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Firewatching? Naw, I was nature-watching. Jokes aside, this is actually a really well-rounded, story-driven game. The characters are likeable, the humor enjoyable, the music pleasant. The views- wow, stunning! But I'm biased and love nature. It's definitely heavy on the walking- the whole game is just that: a walking stimulator, and relies on the ambience of the scenery, music and dialogue happening. I thoroughly...
2 more reviews
its a beautiful experience from the first minute of the game to the last and the VA's are super good they feel so genuine , imo i think the ending is just perfect
Great story game - for people having issues with the movement engine and getting stuck on supposedly nothing, use nvidia control panel or other external software to cap framerate at 120 or below
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 450 or higher with 1GB Memory, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Firewatch scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/383870/firewatchReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.