The Last Campfire

The Last Campfire is a cozy puzzle game with impressive variety to its satisfying, bite-sized conundrums.

More sweet puzzley charm from the people behind LostWinds.

Despite not doing anything new, The Last Campfire is a lovely palate cleanser in between the bigger games this year.

The Last Campfire is an unusually freeform puzzle adventure that stuffs its six-hour playtime with conundrums of every kind. While a few puzzle designs deserve more time in the spotlight – or could support whole games by themselves – the game's commitment to new ideas makes for a refreshing change of pace. This is proof that Hello Games don't have to build a universe from scratch to entertain. More of this, please.

While the narrative does take a few beats to get started, the real problem lies in the overly simple puzzles that the game is built on. It’s a lovely experience that is quickly forgotten.

While The Last Campfire might not be bristling with new ideas for the genre, it packs more or less every kind of puzzle you could expect and embellishes the package with immerse charm and creative ingenuity.

The Last Campfire is an indie puzzle game developed by Hello Games and released in 2020 by the same company as No Man’s Sky (winner of Best Independent Game at the Game Awards in 2015). The Last Campfire has been released on Playstation 4, Xbox, Windows, Nintendo Switch and iOS platforms.

The Last Campfire is a short experience, but it's all the more beautiful. Great music, excellent graphics, and fun playability are handled great. This title deserves your attention even more than a year after its release.

The Last Campfire is relatively easy to complete, and while the story is fairly surface-level when it comes to exploring meaning, loss, and frustration, it is easy for everyone to understand and that is good enough. The visuals are dark and the sun rarely strikes through, but its art style and music are cohesive in that they are pleasing to the eye and kept me interested until the end.

World full of puzzle offers attractive locations with melancholiac ambience.