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Firewatch Will Burn Bright on Nintendo Switch

Campo Santo's acclaimed 2016 adventure is now set to find a home on Nintendo Switch.

Ozzie Mejia

April 5, 2018 11:35 AM

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There's a fire that's been raging for quite a while. That fire comes from Nintendo Switch owners, who have been aching to catch up with some great games. The latest game set to hit the Switch is Campo Santo's Firewatch, which originally released on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 to critical acclaim (including from Shacknews) in 2016.

The Firewatch website made the announcement on Thursday morning. For those unfamiliar, this first-person narrative adventure follows a park ranger as he's sent to investigate a local Wyoming forest. The only contact with the outside world is supervisor Delilah, as players explore something strange deep within the wilderness.

"When will it be out? All we can say is 'soon!'" Campo Santo's Jake Rodkin said on the Campo Santo blog. "Reengineering the sprawling meadows and towering trees of Firewatch's wilderness to play perfectly on new hardware is no small engineering task. We've been hard at work stripping much of Firewatch's tech down to the studs and rebuilding it to render the world more quickly, to stream and load faster, and to generally be more responsive. Nearly everyone in the Campo Santo office has a Nintendo Switch (and the rest want one). We know what a good Switch game feels like, and want to make sure Firewatch feels like one too."

Those who own other versions of Firewatch should also expect to see their versions get optimized in the near future. Firewatch is set to arrive on the Nintendo Switch sometime this Spring.

Ozzie Mejia

Senior Editor

Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?