50 Fun Facts About Uncharted

Which studio developed the Uncharted games?

The series lifted the studio's reputation from Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter to one of the most admired developers in the business.

Who is credited as the creator of the Uncharted franchise?

Hennig wrote and directed the first three games and began the fourth before leaving Naughty Dog in 2014.

The series' hero claims to be a descendant of which Elizabethan explorer?

The first game opens with the discovery of the explorer's coffin, and the fourth reveals Nathan's real surname is Morgan.

What is Nathan Drake's real birth surname, revealed in A Thief's End?

He and his brother Sam adopted the Drake name as boys, believing themselves heirs to Sir Francis.

Which actor voices and motion-captures Nathan Drake?

North ad-libbed chunks of the dialogue and mixed his own personality into Drake's habit of thinking out loud.

The first game, Drake's Fortune, was released in 2007 for which console?

It sold a million copies in ten weeks and was named PS3 Game of the Year by IGN.

What lost treasure does Drake hunt in Drake's Fortune?

The 'treasure' turns out to be a cursed golden sarcophagus rather than a city of gold.

Elena Fisher, who eventually marries Drake, has what job?

The defunct 2007 browser game Drake's Trail had her hire a private detective to track Drake down.

Victor 'Sully' Sullivan is a former officer of which service?

He picked up Drake as a wandering orphan in Colombia, and is perpetually in debt.

In which country did Sullivan first meet the young Nathan Drake?

The meeting is shown in Drake's Deception, where a teenage Nate steals Sir Francis Drake's ring in Cartagena.

Which Farscape actress voices Chloe?

Chloe was written as a darker mirror of Drake; Black ad-libbed lines much as Nolan North did.

The second game sends Drake in search of the Cintamani Stone and which mythical city?

The team drew on Marco Polo's travels; the villain is Serbian war criminal Zoran Lazarevic.

Which explorer's expeditions inspired the team making the second game?

The game moves from a museum in Istanbul through Borneo and Nepal to the Tibetan plateau.

Which game was the first in the series to include online multiplayer?

It offered co-op for up to three players and competitive matches of five against five.

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception centres on the search for which lost city?

The 'Atlantis of the Sands' hunt took the team to the Rub' al Khali desert, with the plot inspired by the life of T. E. Lawrence.

Who is the villain of Drake's Deception, a former employer of Sullivan?

Her secret society hunts Drake from London to Yemen; her henchman Talbot does the dirty work.

The plot of Drake's Deception drew inspiration from the life of which real archaeologist and soldier?

Lawrence of Arabia's desert obsession maps onto Drake's, and the game quotes him directly.

In A Thief's End, Drake comes out of retirement to help which presumed-dead relative?

Sam is voiced by Troy Baker; the pair search for the pirate treasure of Henry Avery.

Whose long-lost treasure is the target in A Thief's End?

The trail leads to Libertalia, the legendary pirate colony, on an island near Madagascar.

Which two leads took over A Thief's End after the original directors left in 2014?

The pair had just made The Last of Us, and brought its focus on character to Nathan and Elena's marriage.

A Thief's End was the studio's first game built specifically for which console?

The team used the new hardware for larger, more dynamic levels with open-ended exploration.

Roughly how many copies has A Thief's End sold, making it the best-selling game in the series?

Among Thieves sold more than 6 million and Drake's Deception more than 9 million; the series passed 41 million by the end of 2017.

Who does the player control in the 2017 Uncharted expansion, the first without Nathan Drake?

She teams up with ex-mercenary Nadine Ross, who was the antagonist's enforcer in A Thief's End.

What artefact is the goal of the 2017 Chloe-led expansion?

The hunt runs through the Western Ghats of India, with a warlord trying to spark a civil war.

The 2017 Chloe-led expansion is set mainly in which country?

The locations include the Western Ghats mountains and a city in Tamil Nadu.

Uncharted: Golden Abyss was a launch title for which handheld?

It is still exclusive to the handheld, having been left out of the Nathan Drake Collection because its story stands alone.

Which developer made Golden Abyss?

The team behind Syphon Filter and later Days Gone worked under Naughty Dog's supervision, with Amy Hennig overseeing the script.

Golden Abyss follows Drake's search for which lost city?

The city of the Seven Cities of Gold legend was sought by Coronado; Drake is helped by fellow treasure hunter Marisa Chase.

Which studio handled the 2015 remaster known as The Nathan Drake Collection?

The collection filled the gap left when A Thief's End slipped from its planned summer 2015 release; it dropped the multiplayer modes.

The Nathan Drake Collection was given away free in 2020 as part of which Sony initiative?

The giveaway ran in April and May 2020 during the early COVID-19 lockdowns.

Which standalone expansion is bundled with A Thief's End in the 2022 remaster for PS5 and Windows?

It arrived on PS5 in January 2022 and on Windows that October, the series' first release outside PlayStation hardware apart from mobile.

Which studio collaborated on the 2022 Windows version of the Legacy of Thieves Collection?

The port arrived on October 19, 2022, nine months after the PS5 release.

Uncharted: Fight for Fortune, released in 2012, was what?

It was developed by One Loop Games for the Vita's touch controls.

The DC Comics Uncharted mini-series of 2011 sent Drake in search of which legendary treasure?

Written by Joshua Williamson, the six-issue series takes the hunt for the vanished Russian chamber all the way to the Hollow Earth.

The 2011 novel Uncharted: The Fourth Labyrinth involves the maze built to hold which mythical creature?

Christopher Golden wrote it for Del Rey; the labyrinth is Daedalus's, from the Cretan legend.

Who plays Nathan Drake in the 2022 Uncharted film?

Wahlberg had been attached to play Drake in early development before ending up as Sully.

Who directed the 2022 film?

All three of the others were attached to direct at some point during a development saga that began in 2008.

The film's treasure hunt is for the lost fortune of which expedition?

Drake and Sully race Antonio Banderas's billionaire Santiago Moncada and mercenary Jo Braddock to it.

Antonio Banderas plays which character in the film?

Tati Gabrielle, in her film debut, plays the mercenary Braddock and Sophia Ali plays Chloe.

The film premiered in February 2022 in which city?

Barcelona was also one of the shooting locations, along with Boston, New York and Kiamba in the Philippines.

The film grossed roughly how much worldwide against a budget of about $120m?

That made it the fourth-highest-grossing video game film at the time; a sequel was confirmed in 2024.

Which actor, long championed by fans for the role, played Drake in a well-received 2018 fan film?

Allan Ungar's 15-minute short co-starred Stephen Lang as Sully; Neil Druckmann tweeted a heart at it.

A 'storycoaster' ride based on the film opened in 2023 at which resort?

Uncharted: The Enigma of Penitence opened at the Spanish park on June 17, 2023.

Who plays Victor 'Sully' Sullivan opposite Tom Holland in the 2022 Uncharted film?

Holland also served as an executive producer, and Sony confirmed a sequel was in development by June 2024.

Which company published Uncharted: The Board Game in 2012?

Designed by Hayato Kisaragi, it lets two to four players compete for treasure and fight enemies.

What was the title of the 2009 four-part motion comic prequel to Drake's Fortune?

Sony released the first part on October 23, 2009, with the final two parts arriving together in December.

Which Indian state hosts the city setting of The Lost Legacy, alongside the Western Ghats?

The standalone expansion was the first in the series without Nathan Drake, pairing Chloe Frazer with Nadine Ross.

Which developer made the 2012 Vita card game Uncharted: Fight for Fortune?

The turn-based game used interactive features suited to the handheld.

Roughly how many copies had Drake's Fortune shipped when it joined the PlayStation Essentials range?

The first three games combined had sold more than 13 million copies by 2011.

Who played Victor Sullivan in Allan Ungar's 2018 fan film starring Nathan Fillion?

Mircea Monroe appeared as Elena Fisher, and the 15-minute short was praised for an over-the-shoulder action sequence echoing the games.