The Quarry: Supermassive Games Reveals It Has 186 Different Endings

Supermassive Games’ next foray into horror, The Quarry, the studio’s spiritual successor to Until Dawn, is due out June 10. More information is becoming available about The Quarry as we get closer to its release date. 

A lot of it comes through the use of IGN, as The Quarry is this month’s feature IGN First game, and in a recent interview with director Will Byles, who also directed Until Dawn, it was revealed that The Quarry has 186 different endings. That’s quite a lot, and it sounds like players will be able to play through The Quarry dozens of times without having the same experience.

Here’s what Byles had to say in regards to developing a game with nearly 200 endings: 

“Those stories, as you kind of branch through, go wide and they start to come back in again. It’s kind of like the story itself is the variation, not always just the end. These characters had 186 possible endings. We did not just consider the characters alive and dead. [but] a whole variation of things like what could happen to them, but the stories that can happen are massively varied.” 

Byles states that the big choices made in the game can be denoted Path Changes. These drastically affect the game’s outcome, whereas smaller choices simply color the characters you’re playing as or change the context in which someone else talks about your characters or how they feel about them. You’ll also see a pop-up on the screen that tells you how your actions affect someone. 

To manage so many endings, Byles says separating the game’s characters in classic horror fashion makes it much easier because if something happens to someone that’s alone, it doesn’t affect everyone else, for example. However, he says that killing someone is binary – they’re either alive or dead. The choices that don’t result in death make the branching of The Quarry’s narrative so exponential, Byles reveals. 

We don’t have to wait long to check out some of these 186 endings because The Quarry hits PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on June 10. Read more to learn how Supermassive Games intends to avoid the problematic tropes found in The Quarry. Then check out this story on how to beat The Quarry with just one button. Watch the first 30 minutes of The Quarry after that. 

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