Until Dawnis an intense experience, especially the first time around. As you’re fighting to try to make everyone survive, it’s easy to overlook the cool little secrets trickled throughout the game.
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Easter eggs are always some of the most fun extra features for fans to hunt down. It encourages multiple playthroughs (beyond the fact that Until Dawn has several endings). So, get your game ready. You’ll want to go through the ordeal all over again to find these secret scenes, dialogues, and Easter Eggs
8Finding Emily’s Heart
A Special Location
Until Dawn features some slightly bittersweet secret dialogue in chapter two, depending on how you look at it. When Matt and Emily are out searching together, Matt can wipe the snow off a picnic table. It’ll trigger a cutscene where Emily wants to keep looking for a better spot.
Don’tfollow her just yet. Wipe the snow off the picnic table again. There’s a heart etched into the wood along with Emily and Mike’s names. Charming? Maybe. Hurtful for Matt to find? Of course.
7The TV is Alive
A Quick and Unexpected Jumpscare
As a horror game, it’s no surprise Until Dawn features jumpscares. But one that some players might not notice, since it’s kind of hidden, is with Sam wandering the lodge after her bath. While she’s downstairs, the TV abruptly cuts on with nothing but static. You don’thave togo to it, but you should.
When you turn it off, give it a few seconds. The TV will cut back on and reveal a brief jumpscare before turning itself back off before Sam can notice what’s going on. It’s a nice way to ease into everything that’s about to happen.
6Making Fun of Chris
Take the Shot or Don’t
In chapter one, Sam and Chris check out the shooting range. Shooting can lead to consequences later on, depending on what you shoot. However, we’re more interested in shooting nothing at all. Simply stand there and Sam will have quite the time making fun of Chris.
There are a handful of different lines she has mocking him in a wayonly a friend could. Afterward, feel free to shoot at whatever you’d like and simply see what may or may not happen down the line.
5Movie Posters
Someone’s a Film Buff
These charming Easter eggs come courtesy of Larry Fessenden, one of Until Dawn’s writers. This man is no stranger to horror. Ironically enough, he wrote a film titled Wendigo back in 2001. But what we love is how the game paid homage to his other works via movie posters.
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Fessenden also produced the films Stake Land, Bitter Feast, The House of the Devil, and The Innkeepers. You can find posters of all these movies in the cinema room inside the lodge. It’s a sweet shout-out to the man who clearly adores horror.
The Most Accurate Song
O’ Death is the perfect song choice in any horror or supernatural-related piece of media. And this version by Amy Van Roekel didn’t disappoint. It gave us a chilling intro that set the scene for the rest of the game (even though the remake took that away from us). But did you know you can hear it beyond the intro?
When you jump into Sam’s shoes fresh from the bath, she leaves her MP3 player on the tub. Idle around there for a minute. You should hear O’ Death playing through the headphones in an ironic foreshadowing of her and her friends’ potential demise.
3Mike Doesn’t Know What He’s Doing
He Has Terrible Reaction Time
This is one of the funnier secret dialogues in Until Dawn. When Mike and Jess are running to the cabin, I implore you to miss every single QTE. Cue Jess screaming at Mike and Mike screaming out, “I don’t know!” Fits the character quite well, in fact.
Paired with Brett Dalton’s incredible performance, you can’t help but laugh at the situation, no matter how tense it is. Finally, there’s a reason to do absolutely nothing during QTEs.
2Every Trophy Name
A Love Letter to Horror Films
Until Dawn feels like one giant love letter to all things horror, so it’s fitting there are Easter eggs even in the trophies. The names of the trophies are related to classic or otherwise famous horror films. And since it’s possible to finish the game withoutanytrophies, you’re able to find them all in the table below along with the related movie:
A Symphony of Horror Trophies
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)
Fatal Grudge
The Grudge (2004)
The Exorcism of Emily
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
Ashley Snaps
Ginger Snaps (2000)
You Let The Wrong One In!
Let the Right One In (2008)
Let Me In (2010)
Instant Inferno
Inferno (1980)
The Tale of Two Sisters
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
The Fateful Descent
The Descent (2005)
You Opened Their Eyes
Open Your Eyes (1997)
Four Daughters Of Darkness
Daughters of Darkness (1971)
They All Live
They Live (1988)
This is THE End
This is the End (2013)
Don’t Scare Jessica To Death
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
The Skillful Wolf Man
The Wolf Man (1941)
Scream Too!
Scream 2 (1997)
The Psycho Path
Psycho (1960)
The Quicker Man
The Wicker Man (1973)
Night of the Totem Hunter
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
1Chris 4 Josh
A Callback for Shippers
If some fans were ever worried about whether the devs listened, this little detail for Chris and Josh should soothe that concern. Climbing Class, the ship name for Chris and Josh, became quite popular. And although the two were ever just best friends, the devs paid attention to the fan ship in the remake.
In the remake, stop at the pick-up truck when you play as Sam goes up to the lodge. Written in the snow on the truck hood is a handprint and a giant heart with “Chris 4 Josh” in the middle. It’s a charming way to throw a bone at the shippers out there.
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