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The Last Campfire
D
escribed by No Man’s Sky
developer Hello Games as a
“short”, this next project
couldn’t be more different from
the huge, open world space
exploration game with which the
team made its mark.
There’s no arguing that No
Man’s Sky is a beautiful game with
an endless supply of bizarre alien
vistas, so it’s with great interest
that we find ourselves entranced by
this smaller, much more focussed
journey. If the same attention to
detail and tender love and care is
applied to a smaller-scale
experience, the tale of a ‘lostember’ trying to find its way home
and find meaning, just what will
the team manage to pull off? The
answer seems to be ‘something
pretty special indeed’.LIGHT IT UP
On your quest to find and light
the last campfire of the title
you journey through a strange
wilderness. Largely a dark,
foreboding forest, we’ve seen our
little robed character (who we
can’t help but want to protect and
hug) make their way down rivers
in a boat, find paths in darkness
lit only by torches, and encountersome of the wildlife. Other lost
folk also lurk in the forest, and
other strange creatures besides.
Despite the somewhat lonely-
looking quest, there will be plenty
of others to meet along the way,
for better or worse.
Ruins also abound in the
mysterious forest, and it looks as
though you need to activate them
to progress towards lighting that
last campfire. But just why is this
final bastion so deep within such a
dark place, and why are its
surroundings so dangerous? Hello
Games has us hankering to explore
again, but in a tighter space.FORMATPS4/PLAYERS 1 /DEV HELLOGAMESAn ember still burns
Ember
Lost Folk
Tor c he s
The EndDeep Woods
Wildlife
Exploration
Ancient Ruins
“HELLO GAMES HAS
US HANKERING TO
EXPLORE AGAIN,
BUT IN A MUCH
TIGHTER SPACE.”
We want to wrap up our
adorable little ember
and protect him from the
forest’s dangers.