The Quarry is the latest horror-adventure experience from Supermassive Games, which is well known for The Dark Pictures Anthology and Until Dawn. Their latest game follows a group of camp counselors as they survive a night full of surprises and terror.
Throughout your journey in Hackett's Quarry, you will witness a series of mysterious events and strange situations. While many of your questions will be answered after a playthrough or two, there are still some unresolved conundrums in every possible ending. You might not lose sleep over the monsters from The Quarry, but these lingering questions may keep you up instead.
This article contains major spoilers for The Quarry. It is highly recommended that you complete at least one playthrough of the game before reading further.
8 Where Does Chris Go During Full Moons During Camp?
Chris Hackett seems like a wonderful leader for his summer camp. Based on his interactions with Ryan and the other counselors, Chris is looked up to and respected. No one knows that he is a werewolf though, so it's surprising that no one questions his absence during full moons while camp is in session.
It's incredibly unlikely that he hides in the cellar below the camp lodge with kids around, so maybe he goes to his family's house in the woods to be contained? Regardless, Chris appears to be the only real adult at Hackett's Quarry, so it's odd that no one noticed his absence at any point. If any of the kids got sick or if there was any kind of emergency, it would be up to Jacob and Dylan to restore peace and honestly, Chris in werewolf form is likely more capable than they are.
7 Where Did Laura's Eyepatch Come From?
One of the few inevitable events in every playthrough is the loss of Laura's eye. After being held prisoner by Travis Hackett for nearly a month, he finally shows Laura the truth about Max's bite by handcuffing her to a pipe outside his cell. Despite her distance from the bars, he is still able to reach out after his transformation and claw her eye out.
Laura then uses her limited medical knowledge to patch herself up. When the couple eventually escape the police station, she is last seen in bloodied bandages. Later that night when she meets up with the counselors, Laura suddenly has a nice leather eyepatch to complete her badass aesthetic. Did she find it on the side of the road? Maybe it's a free prize from a bag of Peanut Butter Butter Pops?
6 Why Weren't Caleb and Kaylee Locked Up?
It's roughly 6:30pm when everyone realizes that they are staying one more night at camp. Whether you stole the rotor arm or broke the fuel line, your ride is kaput and won't be able to take the counselors to safety until the morning. This should have been plenty of time for Chris to gather Caleb and Kaylee and ensure they are locked up to protect his employees for one more night.
Chris has a no cellphone policy during camp, but it surely couldn't have hurt him to send his kids a "Hey, home before dark tonight please." text. It could have prevented a lot of bloodshed and may have even protected both siblings from harm. It wouldn't have prevented the events of The Quarry, though - Silas would still be out hunting and would still attack Nick and the others.
5 How Come Max And Laura's Parents Didn't Reach Out?
Laura and Max are held prisoners by Travis for 58 days before they break free to spend the night with werewolves and their long-lost co-workers. Some parents may rejoice at the idea of having a summer away from their kids, but wouldn't you be worried if you didn't hear a peep from them in nearly two months?
Chris has a stern "no cellphone" policy at camp - every counselor must hand in their phone on the first day of camp, and gets it back before leaving. Even if the parents knew this, shouldn't they still expect a letter or some other kind of update? Writing home is an essential camp activity, so it's certainly surprising that neither Laura nor Max's parents started sniffing around after the first month or so. There is always the chance that Travis sent fake letters full of youthful soliloquies and the latest gossip.
4 How Are Everyone's Relationships After The Game?
The first few chapters of The Quarry are spent forging friendships and flirting with other counselors. From watching Jacob and Emma confront the end of their summer fling to witnessing Abi and Nick's last-minute confessions to each other, the game does an excellent job engaging you with the characters and investing in their relationships with each other.
At a certain point, once everyone is split up and fighting for survival against werewolves, all of that kind of seems to disappear. There are conversations about how everyone feels throughout the game, but it never offers closure on anything it sets up earlier. After beating The Quarry, you see who survived and who didn't, but it would have been nice to include more information in these clips. Did Ryan ultimately end up seeing Dylan or Kaitlyn after camp? Did Abi convince Nick to stop telling her awful jokes about painting?
3 Where Are The Rest Of The Cops?
The Quarry never reveals how big the town outside of Hackett's Quarry - North Kill - is. After Travis helps Laura and Max in the prologue, he insists that they travel to the local hotel for the night. If North Kill is big enough to have a hotel, shouldn't there be more than one police officer on staff?
Travis' legitimacy as a cop is questioned earlier in the game, but he clearly has access to a police station and wears an official badge. Even the smallest of towns typically have at least two or three officers on duty, so it doesn't make sense that Travis is the only one. Plus, he spends so much of his time hunting down Silas that there is no way he is also handing out parking tickets and investigating noise complaints on the side.
2 Why Can't The Werewolves Smell Abi And Others Without Blood On Them?
Aside from holding your breath for a ridiculously long time, one of the few things you can do to avoid werewolves is cover yourself in some of their blood. Jedediah and Bobby Hackett are often seen covered in blood for protection, and they even try to cover the counselors with the disgusting stuff to help keep them safe. Despite the game's emphasis on the importance of wolf blood, there are still multiple moments where a counselor evades a werewolf attack without it.
The earliest example is when Abi runs off after Nick is attacked in chapter three. Abi is chased through the woods by Silas before eventually hiding behind a rock. The werewolf comes within feet of Abi and doesn't seem to catch a whiff of her even though she isn't covered in blood. This inconsistency is present throughout The Quarry and makes you wonder if the Hackett family misread a fortune from a cookie and just decided to start pouring blood on each other.
1 Do Peanut Butter Butter Pops Exist?
One of the most whimsical moments in The Quarry happens when Jacob discovers a certain treat from his childhood known as Peanut Butter Butter Pops. Many of the other counselors are unfamiliar with the sugary product, but once Nick sees them he breaks out into a dance with Jacob as they sing the snack's jingle together. Based on their reaction to something that is "its own subgenre of food snack" we would like to eat some as soon as possible.
If one snack has the power to make these two sing and dance, there must be something special about them. Months after you roll credits in the game you may forget about The Hacketts, but you will never forget the snack that offered two men the highlight of their day. Peanut Butter Butter Pops may or may not exist, but they certainly sound like the perfect snack for your next playthrough of The Quarry.