There Are 186 Endings in 'The Quarry' and Only a Few That Save Everyone

April 2024 · 5 minute read

'The Quarry' is the newest horror game from Supermassive Games, but is there a way to save everyone in it? How to make sure all characters survive.

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Horror games are some of the most popular for many gamers, as the thrill of truly immersing yourself in a scary experience does more than any horror movie could do. There are plenty out there already that will give you a thrill, and Supermassive Games has released another title that's bound to keep you on the edge of your seat.

The Quarry, the newest title from the developer, capitalizes on many of the tropes of classic teen slasher movies, following nine teenagers on a summer trip to Hackett's Quarry gone wrong.

As in most horror games, as you progress through the title and make decisions, certain characters may meet their end. But is there a way to save everyone in the game? Here are some tips on how to.

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How many endings are there in 'The Quarry'?

A video game having multiple endings is not a new idea — there are plenty of big-name games that have multiple endings players can unlock. Elden Ring has hundreds of hours worth of content to work through, with six different endings players can unlock. If you're playing a game that relies heavily on the butterfly effect, like the Life Is Strange games do, then you're likely to have even more possible endings (meaning more reasons to play through the game again and again).

Until Dawn, which was developer Supermassive Games' predecessor to The Quarry, has six different endings that ultimately affect which characters live and die.

In The Quarry, though, there are significantly more endings than the developer's previous game has. According to Supermassive Games, The Quarry has 186 different endings you can unlock — an impressive number considering there are only nine playable characters in the game.

Director of The Quarry and Until Dawn, Will Byles from Supermassive Games, tells us how exactly you go about writing a story with 186 unique endings and how the choices you make along the way impact everything. pic.twitter.com/mAIwJ81FrC

— IGN (@IGN) April 27, 2022

Director Will Byles revealed in an interview with IGN that the script for the game was over 1,000 pages long, creating multiple branches for each character's storyline.

"We worked out 186 different endings for those characters, not just alive or dead ... the stories that they have on the way through are massively varied," he told the outlet.

"Branches really are a mathematical nightmare. It's just exponential," he also said.

"The smaller choices that affect the story that you're actually playing, like relationships and stuff — we really like the idea of giving you context, so you can have the exact same conversation, but know that that person has just killed someone, and the context changes everything," he added.

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How to save everyone in 'The Quarry.'

Of the 186 endings, there is one good ending where you can save all of the characters that could potentially meet their untimely death in The Quarry — but given how many different possible branches the game has, this is, understandably, a difficult feat to accomplish. There are a couple of different ways to achieve an ending where everyone lives, but ultimately surviving the duration of the story will depend on both decisions and nailing your reactions during quick time events.

To provide the least amount of spoilers for the game, we've provided a list of key decisions based on chapter that you'll have to make if you want the characters to make it. Remember, though, these are not the only decisions that will help you get everyone to the end, but this is definitely one way to achieve that.

In the prologue and Chapters 1 and 2, while there are decisions you can make that make things easier down the line, there aren't bad decisions that will stop you from saving everyone.

In Chapter 3:

In Chapter 4:

In Chapter 5:

In Chapter 6:

In Chapter 7:

In Chapter 8:

In Chapter 9:

In Chapter 10:

If you follow these, you should be able to make it to the end of The Quarry with all of your characters still alive — but it's bound to still be quite the experience to get there.

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