Trivia / The Quarry

• Billing Displacement: The announce trailer gets hit with this HARD, especially after the game came out. This lists David Arquette first, followed by the 9 playable counselors, then the supporting cast, and is seems to based more on fame than the actual importance to the story. This was remedied in the game proper, where the opening credits listed the 15 main actors in alphabetical order, and the closing credits list all characters in order of appearance.
  • David Arquette is first, and ALL over the marketing, as he's the game's biggest star. His role is very limited and only appears in 3 to 4 of the chapters, 2 of which are in werewolf form, and 1 of which is determinant.
  • Ariel Winter, fresh off of her decade-long stint on Modern Family, goes second. She IS a playable character, but is not very central, and falls out of focus quickly after her first possible death in Chapter 6.
  • Justice Smith, billed third, is the closest thing this game has to a main character.
  • Brenda Song is next, who is the main character of the secondary group of survivors.
  • Halston Sage is fifth, but spends a lot of the game out of focus, and doesn't have any playable segments past Chapter 6 if Abi and Jacob are both alive. Given that she's more well known than other actors, however, it would probably explain her placement here.
  • Siobhan Williams' placement in sixth is somewhat justified given that she disappears for the first half of the game shortly after being introduced. However, once she returns, she becomes the main character. This was possibly done to avoid spoiling that she comes back, as Supermassive Games' prologue characters typically don't fare too well...
  • Skyler Gisondo, in seventh, is more well-known than a large chunk of the cast, but is BARELY in the game. He has a single playable segment in the final chapter, which may not even happen if the wrong choice is made.
  • Evan Evagora's placement as eighth is justified, given he's relatively unknown (unless you're a big Star Trek fan) and only appears in werewolf form after Chapter 6, regardless of choice.
  • Miles Robbins' placement as ninth is probably the most galling, considering he has a large number of playable segments and receives quite a bit of characterization and development.
  • Zach Tinker, in tenth, is difficult to place. He also has quite a few playable segments and character development, but many of his segments are determinant, as he can be killed off early and frequently.
  • Ted Raimi is the first of the supporting cast to be billed, and arguably has a more central role than a good chunk of the counselors, and certainly more than David Arquette's character.
  • Lance Henriksen and Lin Shaye are next, followed by Grace Zabriskie and Ethan Suplee. Zabriskie appears in every single chapter, albeit not as a part of the main narrative, while Suplee appears far more frequently than either Henriksen and Shaye.
• Dawson Casting: While not as pronounced as in Until Dawn, most of the actors are at least a few years older than their presumably 18-to-20 (ish) year-old characters. The most classic example has to be Brenda Song, who was 34 when the game released and played one of the college-aged camp counsellors.
• Fan Nickname: Many players independently nickname Bobby "Blood Man", as while it is possible to hear his name fairly early on, it can be a little while before it's a hundred percent clear that it's his, while his most distinguishing trait right out of the gate is that he is a man who walks around covered in blood.
• Lying Creator:
  • Supermassive boasted in interviews how “anyone could be the hero of the story”. Come the game’s release, it was revealed that only around 2 characters could be the hero. Those being the two characters who fit the Final Girl archetype the most: Laura and Kaitlyn. In addition to this, both of them have a male partner who will almost always be with them at their climax. The only part of Supermassive's statement that could be considered slightly true is the idea that both of those climax's can be missed if a set of extremely specific circumstances are met causing chapter ten to simply not occur.
  • Supermassive claimed that no one would have Plot Armor in the game and that there would be around 10 deaths per character. However, Ryan, Laura, Kaitlyn, and even Dylan all can’t die until late in the game.
• Playing Against Type: Ted Raimi usually plays cowardly comic relief characters, so his role here as a genuinely unsettling (and very competent) character is pretty unheard of in his filmography. He's surprisingly great at it.
• Real-Life Relative: Grace and Anton, hosts of the Bizarre Yet Bonafide podcast that recurs throughout the game, are played by Emily Axford and Brian Murphy, a real-life married couple known for appearing together in various CollegeHumor sketches and other related media. Ironically, though they often portray couples when working together, it's made clear that Grace and Anton aren't romantically involved, though Grace hints she enjoys that their audience apparently contains a number of people who ship them together.
• Teasing Creator:
  • It's common for Supermassive Game's first playable character to meet a grisly fate in the Prologue before the game starts. It happens when Beth goes out to find Hannah, Joe's terrible fate on the Ourang Medan, Anthony rushing into the fire, Even if the ending changes up the narrative, and Balathu's ordeal against the creatures. So it's not a strange thing to have Laura tranquilized and Max brutally beaten by some creature in the storm shelter and disappearing as the game starts. Laura comes back in Chapter 7 and is a major protagonist in the last third of the game. Max's role is minor, but he comes back as well.
  • It's easy to see Emma's first potential death in Chapter 4 as this. There is a trapdoor that is banging ominously, and Emma will outright say that opening it (before investigating the bag that will give her weapons) will lead to her "horrifying and gruesome death." Which it does. Compare this to Until Dawn, where Ashley's most famous death is being decapitated right after opening an ominously banging trapdoor. Supermassive Games may have gone out of their way here to tease players for such an obvious blunder.
• Word of Saint Paul:
  • According to Zach Tinker, the counselors' constant ribbing towards each other is almost entirely playful, rather than out of dislike for one another.
  • Nick inherits Evan Evagora's strong Melburnian accent. It's never commented on in game, so it may be unclear to some players if Nick is Australian or if he's meant to be American but his actor just couldn't be bothered to do an American accent. Evagora himself, however, has commented in interviews that the game's director, Will Byles, didn't know Evagora was Australian until after he was cast, but he still opted to not have Evagora do an American accent for the character as he felt it was fitting that given that Hackett's Quarry attracted potential counselors from all over the world. It's also worth noting that regardless of Nick Furcillo's nationality, Evagora is indeed capable of the American accent and has used it in other projects, notably in Fantasy Island (2020) as another young man named Nick.

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