History VideoGame / TheQuarry

* SchmuckBait: Just as Emma predicts, [[spoiler:opening the banging trapdoor leads to a gory and horrible death at the hands of a werewolf]].

* GuideDangIt: The game has a gargantuan number of branches/scenes that a player can experience in a given playthrough, at least as much, if not more, than Supermassive's last game VideoGame/UntilDawn. The "problem" in layman's terms, however, is that many of these scenes can only be seen if certain characters or combinations thereof are alive, dead, [[spoiler:infected]], or in certain locations at certain times, and many of these criteria can only be set through failing certain quicktime events and/or making choices that no "sensible" player would make. Most players will try their best (and succeed) to complete any [=QTEs=] that they come across in their first playthrough and will be mostly sensible about the choices they make, and so the result is that many of the game's more intricate and heavy scenes will not be found until subsequent playthroughs.

* DrunkOnTheDarkside: [[spoiler: Laura starts to really enjoy her transformation into a werewolf, even though she by that point would have been stabbed, shot at least once, dropped of a cliff, and seen for herself the horrors of the transformation. It creeps Ryan out when she mentions how good she feels.]]

* {{Expy}}: Eliza the fortuneteller plays a role not dissimilar to the Dr Hill in ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'' or The Curator of VideoGame/TheDarkPicturesAnthology, acting as a HorrorHost who occasionally turns up in the game. [[spoiler:However, she's also an actual character within the backstory, though she's dead by the time the game starts and you're talking to her ghost. If the player has been listening to her advice and pushing the characters into making certain choices however, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero they will have fulfilled]] Eliza's {{Curse}} against the Hackett family and desire to see them all dead so they will stop hunting her son Silas, as well as {{Revenge}} on the two youngest, Caleb and Kaylee, for her AccidentalMurder during a fire set as a distraction that got out of control, in essence [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou making the player her instrument of vengeance]] throughout the game.]]

* ZombieInfectee: Nick [[spoiler:gets bitten by a werewolf early in the story and transforms about halfway through. Uniquely it is entirely possible for everyone to get infected at one point, though Ryan and Laura won't survive the night infected. Chris, Caleb, and Kaylee are also infected and have been for years]].

** Early in the prologue, there is a tutorial sequence in which the tutorial character catches on fire whilst sitting near a firepit. Not long after, Max tells Laura to "imaging herself curling up in front of a big old firepit singing campfire singalongs", to which Laura remarks that no one does that because they would catch on fire.

* WhamShot: A possible death in early on. Kaitlyn, Dylan, and Ryan hear strange noises from the woods and Ryan can optionally fire two blind shots into the foliage. As Kaitlyn chides him for firing at nothing, the camera pans down to shown Jacob lying dead in the bushes, half of his face blown off.

** [[spoiler:If Ryan isn't careful with the shotgun at the firepit, he can kill Jacob randomly with it.]]

* SoleSurvivor: Entirely possible for all the counselors, especially if the counselor you want to be the last one standing [[spoiler:gets and stays infected until Laura kills Silas with her dying breath.]] Although some deaths and [[spoiler:infections void the possibility of certain other characters dying, there is a way to play the game where everybody dies in an "independent" way; that is, if you wanted to make any given counselor the sole survivor you would only have to change decisions that directly lead to the death of the counselor in question, rather than "re-doing" the death of another counselor because it got in the way of that outcome.]] Even though this possibility exists for all counselors, only Kaitlyn and Ryan have achievements for it, which differs from VideoGame/UntilDawn in that there are no gender-specific survival achievements.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: [[spoiler:Laura. Once Chapter 7 rolls around, she completely steals the show. For the remaining 3 chapters, Kaitlyn, Dylan, and Ryan are the only characters who get any sort of major roles for the rest of the game. Previously important characters, such as Jacob, Abigail, Emma, and especially Nick, are pushed out of the limelight and only given a handful of scenes.]]

* DawsonCasting: In true horror movie fashion, the "teens" are played by actors in their late 20's or early 30's.

* RunningGag: Tying anything that happens to bears. Emma grabbing the gun in Chapter 1? Protection from bears. The trail cams? Detecting bears. [[spoiler:The SOS message Dylan sends from the radio hut? He states how they're being attacked by bears. Trailcam footage of a werewolf being reviewed as evidence? Probably a really skinny bear]].

* RunningGag: Tying anything that happens to bears. Emma grabbing the gun in Chapter 1? Protection from bears. The trail cams? Detecting bears. [[spoiler:The SOS message Dylan sends from the radio house? He states how they're being attacked by bears. Trailcam footage of a werewolf being reveiwed as evidence? Probably a really skinny bear]].

** [[spoiler: The Bloated Corpse Clue is a clear ShoutOut to Jason from Series/FridayThe13th. In the series Jason is depicted as sleeping in a similar manner at the bottom of his lake. Additionally, his body is tied to a heavy object to prevent him from leaving the bottom of the lake. However, in Jason's case it is with chains, rather than razor-wire, and it also doesn't work. For the Corpse however, it was a FateWorseThenDeath. Every time he reanimated he would be submerged in water, which is already agonizing for a werewolf, but covered in razor-wire as well. Presumably he would then trash relentlessly while either his skin burned like Acid or was sliced to brisket. Eventually, the pain would be enough that he would go into shock and "die" again. Evidently this was able to kill him as the corpse eventually stopped reanimating as it had begun to decompose when Jacob found it.]]

* WhamLine: We get TheReveal during Laura’s chapter, via a confrontation between Chris and Travis at the police station.
-->'''Chris:''' [[spoiler:Jesus, Travis. [Laura and Max] are still here? [[WhatTheHellHero That’s fucked up!]]]]\\

-->'''Laura:''' [[spoiler:So...what now, everyone's back to normal?]]
-->'''Travis:''' [[spoiler:What? Oh...You think this is over? This isn't over.]]

** A severed and piked pig's head can be found in chapter 4 of the game, the same chapter it was introduced in Lord of The Flies.