A lookout tower, a Wyoming forest, and a voice on the radio that becomes your whole world.

Picked on instinct, Firewatch hits the absolute top, ahead of every other game. As high as it goes. Then the detail reveals a profile split in two. Up top: art style ahead of 94% of titles, the wish to rediscover it fresh ahead of 91%, soundtrack ahead of 85%, on few votes so take it as an early read. At the bottom, no debate: controller feel dead last, ahead of barely 2% of games, and the desert-island game way down in the depths, ahead of 9%. There's the whole truth of Firewatch: you love it for what it tells and what it shows, not for what you do with your fingers. Walk, talk, feel.

Against other first-person adventure games, it's the short intense experience you keep in memory, not the gameplay loop you tinker with.

So, who's it for? For you if you love a mood-driven story, a bond that forms in fragments, a landscape that breathes. Much less if you're after controller joy or replay value.