40 Fun Facts About Night in the Woods

In Night in the Woods, what kind of animal is Mae Borowski, the college dropout the player controls?

A cat with the full name Margaret Borowski, Mae is 20 when she comes home, and the developers have said she is pansexual.

Which animal is Bea Santello, the cigarette-smoking childhood friend of Mae in Night in the Woods?

A crocodile with a goth wardrobe, Bea wears an ankh on her dress and was valedictorian of her high school class.

Which instrument does Mae Borowski play at practice with her friends' band in Night in the Woods?

Bass guitar is Mae's part, though her friends make her play songs she has never learned, having been away at college.

In Night in the Woods, which god-like entity does the hooded cult beneath Possum Springs make sacrifices to?

The Black Goat is said to live at the bottom of a deep pit, and its followers claim it never speaks but sings.

What is the name of the Halloween festival where Mae sees a teenager kidnapped in Night in the Woods?

Harfest is the town's take on Halloween, and shops such as the Ol' Pickaxe hang decorations and run harvest sales for it.

Which crowdfunding site paid for Night in the Woods, where the game hit its goal in just 26 hours?

Kickstarter backers ended up pledging more than four times the goal, which paid for extra animation and a playable game within the game.

In Night in the Woods, what did Mae Borowski hit a fellow student with during a dissociative episode years earlier?

A softball bat was the weapon, and the attack left the town wary of Mae and put her family under financial strain.

In Night in the Woods, Mae says she left college because people and the world began to look like what?

Shapes is how Mae describes her dissociation, which first struck years before college and grew worse once she was away from home.

Which old friend of Mae and Gregg has mysteriously vanished from Possum Springs when Night in the Woods begins?

Casey Hartley drummed in the friends' band, and while they assume he hopped a train out of town, his parents have put up missing posters.

What is the expanded edition of Night in the Woods called, sharing its title with a song by Mae's band?

Weird Autumn arrived in the December after launch, adding new scenes and bundling both of the earlier companion games.

At which Possum Springs convenience store does Gregg Lee work the counter in Night in the Woods?

Snack Falcon is one of the few businesses doing well in the struggling town, and Gregg has nicknamed it the Snalcon.

Which Possum Springs business does Bea Santello run in place of her father in Night in the Woods?

Ol' Pickaxe is a hardware store owned by her father, and it became Bea's to run after her mother's death, which kept her from going to college.

Which animal is Angus Delaney, Gregg's quiet boyfriend in the glasses and fedora, in Night in the Woods?

A bear who trusts science over anything spooky, Angus cooks to calm himself down and carries an inhaler for his asthma.

Which nickname does the bicycle-riding bird who lives out in the woods go by in Night in the Woods?

Germ Warfare, usually just Germ, is really Jeremy Warton, and he keeps a wild possum he named Rabies.

In Night in the Woods, what nickname do the young people of Possum Springs, especially Lori Meyers, use for Mae?

Killer is what the town's kids call her, while Mae's own name for herself is Nightmare Eyes.

In Night in the Woods, what job does Aunt Molly, sister of Mae's mother Candy, hold in Possum Springs?

Police officer Molly is the first relative Mae runs into on her night back in town, and Mae mockingly calls her Aunt Mall-Cop.

What did the town doctor give Mae Borowski to record her feelings in, years before the events of Night in the Woods?

A journal was Dr. Hank's entire prescription, and it now fills with Mae's doodles of whatever happens to her in the game.

To which big city are Gregg and Angus saving up to move in Night in the Woods?

Bright Harbor is a port city where Gregg's cousin Jen already lives, and Mae promises to visit once the couple have moved.

Which former teacher of Mae hunts for dusk stars with a telescope from a neighbour's roof in Night in the Woods?

Mr. Chazokov counted Mae among his favourite students for her love of astronomy, despite her poor behaviour in class.

Where does Candy Borowski, Mae's mother, work as a front desk receptionist in Night in the Woods?

A church, the Church of the First Coalescence, employs Candy at its front desk, and Mae has nicknamed her Church Mom.

Which industry's collapse left Possum Springs short of work years before the events of Night in the Woods?

Coal mining turned the place into a boomtown, and a mural of four miners still decorates its old trolley tunnel.

In which part of her parents' house does Mae Borowski live after moving back to Possum Springs in Night in the Woods?

The attic holds Mae's laptop, which runs a dungeon-crawling minigame once Angus has repaired it.

In Night in the Woods, what does Mae believe she saw carrying off a teenager at the town's Halloween festival?

A ghost is Mae's theory, and her sceptical friends only come round after they run into cloaked figures out in the forest.

Which companion game to Night in the Woods is a bedtime story told to young Mae by her grandfather?

Lost Constellation follows an astronomer called Adina Astra, and Mae keeps interrupting her grandfather's tale with comments of her own.

What is the dungeon-crawling game that Mae can play on her laptop in Night in the Woods called?

Demontower stars a sword-swinging hero in a pointed red hat and exists because the crowdfunding campaign overshot its target.

Possum Springs in Night in the Woods is modelled mostly on declining industrial towns in which US state?

Pennsylvania's small towns were the model for a place the game says fur trappers settled in the 1790s for its fresh springs.

What does Mae's neighbour Selmers recite from her front stoop each day in Night in the Woods?

Poems became Selmers' calling after rehab, and listening to every one unlocks the Poets of Possum Springs achievement.

Which animal is tattooed on Gregg Lee's bicep in Night in the Woods, a reminder of his uncle's farm?

A sheep marks the day young Gregg opened his uncle's pen and the flock bolted, and to him it stands for escaping his home town.

What kind of business employs Angus Delaney on the day shift in Possum Springs in Night in the Woods?

A video store named Video Outpost "Too" is where Angus works, under a red rocket-ship logo, with shelves that are mostly DVDs.

Which film genre does rooftop-loving teenager Lori Meyers hope to write and direct in Night in the Woods?

Horror is Lori's obsession: she skips the town festival to watch scary films alone and sketches her own monster make-up designs.

Which indie label, run by Adam and Rebekah Saltsman, published Night in the Woods?

Finji is a family studio in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and its co-founder had earlier made the viral endless runner Canabalt.

Which studio, nominated for Best Debut at the 2018 Game Developers Choice Awards, developed Night in the Woods?

Infinite Fall spent its surplus crowdfunding on hiring animator Charles Huettner, and capped its stretch goals to keep the project manageable.

Which Canadian developer, earlier known for the underwater game Aquaria, composed the Night in the Woods soundtrack?

Alec Holowka also programmed the game, and its music was released on Bandcamp as three separate albums.

Which animator and co-writer of Night in the Woods named Richard Scarry and Mike Mignola among his influences?

Scott Benson was an independent animator before the game, and Game Informer's adventure awards named his creation Mae the best character of 2017.

Which band's 1997 album opens with the song that gave Night in the Woods its title?

The World/Inferno Friendship Society, a sprawling Brooklyn punk collective, also inspired some of the game's themes.

Which game engine's own 2017 awards handed Night in the Woods both Best 2D Visuals and the overall Golden Cube?

Unity is the engine the game runs on, with its conversations handled by a dialogue tool built by a studio in Hobart, Australia.

Which console received Night in the Woods on launch day in February 2017, alongside Windows, Mac and Linux?

PlayStation 4 was the only console at launch, after the release slipped from January; the others followed within a year.

Night in the Woods won which category at the 2018 British Academy Games Awards, where it had four nominations?

Narrative was the win, and the script also took a comedy-writing prize from America's game trade reviewers.

Which game from Night in the Woods creators at The Glory Society was announced in 2023 but cancelled months later?

Revenant Hill was shelved after its lead developer became seriously ill with heart disease, and the studio suspended operations.

What pet name does Angus Delaney use for his boyfriend Gregg in Night in the Woods?

Bug is what Angus calls Gregg, who returns the favour by calling him Cap'n.