The Last Campfire Reviews

The Last Campfire is ranked in the 75th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
9 / 10.0
Sep 17, 2020

The Last Campfire is a charming puzzler with gorgeous visuals and a poignant message, told throughout worlds ripe for exploring.

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9 / 10.0
Aug 31, 2020

In a world of heavy, AAA titles, games as service titles and bloated RPGs, The Last Campfire is a beacon of hope that small, wonderful, single-player experiences will carry on. Well done Hello games, I loved it.

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9 / 10.0
Oct 8, 2020

World full of puzzle offers attractive locations with melancholiac ambience.

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9 / 10.0
Sep 3, 2020

The Last Campfire’s journey is one that’s both enchanting and touching, with its wonderful world and fun puzzles making for a memorable adventure throughout. There were a few oddities to encounter as far as performance is concerned and players might feel some sense of familiarity with the puzzle-design, but they’re minor issues in what is otherwise a creatively delightful experience.

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9 / 10
Dec 28, 2021

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.

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8.5 / 10.0
Aug 30, 2020

Beyond its narrative value is an excellently designed puzzle adventure that manipulates a few simple mechanics in an incredible variety of ways. The Switch version does have some performance issues and wasn't without an odd glitch or two, but these were momentary setbacks in a wonderful journey. While the entirety of the Last Campfire only lasts around five hours, it is an adventure you're unlikely to forget anytime soon.

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8.5 / 10.0
Sep 8, 2020

The Last Campfire may not have a lot of innovative puzzles in it but it makes up for that with a emotional, thoughtful story, solid mechanics, and a beautiful art style.

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8.5 / 10.0
Sep 13, 2020

The Last Campfire is a pleasant surprise and a radiant interactive fable about the light and goodness that exist in each one of us. It is a title with adorable characters that warm our hearts and an unforgettable journey through a magical, vibrant and contemplative world. Although it has some slight performance and gameplay problems, in addition to the lack of Portuguese dubbing, this beautiful and comforting story about empathy, loss and hope contextualizes each puzzle brilliantly, delivering a simple, sensitive and joyful experience for all ages.

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8 / 10
Sep 4, 2020

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

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TheSixthAxis
Steve C
Top Critic
8 / 10
Aug 28, 2020

The Last Campfire is a delightful little game that succeeds on both an emotional and a mechanical level, combining  tried  and tested environmental puzzles with an intimate and personal story.

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Wccftech
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
Sep 9, 2020

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.

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8 / 10
Sep 11, 2020

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.

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Spaziogames
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
Sep 2, 2020

The Last Campfire is a meaningful journey totally worth making.

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8 / 10.0
Sep 7, 2020

An adorable and gorgeously designed puzzle game that, depsite minor techincal issues it a joy to play.

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8 / 10.0
Jun 30, 2021

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.

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7.5 / 10.0
Aug 29, 2020

The Last Campfire is a simple yet heartfelt story that really anyone can pick up and play, my biggest gripe with it all is that it is far too short and would have really liked to have spent more time in the world with the game barely clocking in at 8 hours.

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7 / 10.0
Sep 4, 2020

If hope is truly the main theme of the story, there are better ways to tell it without vagueness and without subtle hints. Stories are meant to enthrall you, and they come first before gameplay. When one tells a story that can be remembered for weeks after the game has ended, then that’s an amazing game. The Last Campfire, to me, is an okay game — one that can do better.

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6.5 / 10.0
Sep 18, 2020

This colorful adventure brings a unique style, while some problems with the framerate this alone is worth the Price of admission, the puzles are a struggle to enjoy, the simplified gameplay invites creativity.

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6 / 10
Sep 3, 2020

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.

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6 / 10
Aug 31, 2020

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

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