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50 free Until Dawn trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Until Dawn turned the teen slasher film into something you play. Eight friends return to a remote mountain lodge a year after a tragedy, and every decision, from an overlooked clue to a split-second button press, can decide which of them sees the morning. This quiz covers the whole night: the characters and the actors behind them, the masked killer in the lodge and the creatures in the mines, the sessions with Dr. Hill that probe what frightens you, and how the game was made. It also takes in the virtual reality spin-off Rush of Blood, the prequel, the remake and the 2025 film. The questions run from easy plot points for anyone who has finished the story once to deep cuts for players who have chased every ending. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so you pick up something new even when you guess.
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Q 01Which of the friends is unmasked as the Psycho terrorising the lodge in Until Dawn?
Josh
Josh staged the attacks to avenge his sisters, whom he believed had died on the mountain a year earlier. He even faked being sawn in half to sell the act.
Q 02According to the Stranger in Until Dawn, what turns a person on Blackwood Mountain into a wendigo?
Eating human flesh
Eating human flesh on the mountain lets a wendigo spirit possess the eater. A bite or scratch does nothing, whatever the frightened survivors believe.
Q 03Which future Best Actor Oscar winner plays the Washington twins' brother in Until Dawn?
Rami Malek
Rami Malek lent his voice and likeness and was fully motion-captured for the role. The game arrived the same summer that Mr. Robot gave him his breakout part on television.
Q 04What name does Until Dawn give its system of story-changing choices?
Butterfly effect
Butterfly effect choices run from picking up a book to deciding who lives. The game's hundreds of endings grow out of 22 critical decisions.
Q 05Which Heroes actress plays Sam Giddings in Until Dawn?
Hayden Panettiere
Hayden Panettiere was no stranger to games, having voiced Kairi and Xion in the Kingdom Hearts series before taking on the role of Sam.
Q 06What must players physically do to pass the tense hiding sequences in Until Dawn?
Hold the controller still
Hold the controller still and its motion sensor decides whether the character stays hidden. The 2024 remake added a Stay Calm option for pads without a gyroscope.
Q 07Which collectibles in Until Dawn show players a brief vision of a possible future event?
Totems
Totems come in five colours in the original game, and each colour warns of a different kind of future: death, danger, loss, guidance or fortune.
Q 08What kind of test did the developers of Until Dawn run on playtesters to measure their fear?
Galvanic skin response
Galvanic skin response readings showed the team whether a scare was landing. The studio favoured terror, which its director defined as the dread of an unseen threat.
Q 09Which Fargo actor plays Dr. Alan Hill in both the Until Dawn game and the 2025 film adaptation?
Peter Stormare
Peter Stormare voiced and motion-captured the psychiatrist for the 2015 game, then returned to play him on screen ten years later.
Q 10Which animal can Mike befriend in the sanatorium of Until Dawn by choosing not to kick it?
A wolf
A wolf that Mike nicknames Wolfie will guide him through the building later if he treats it kindly. The animal's movements were motion captured from a dog named Saxon.
Q 11In the prologue of Until Dawn, what sends one of the Washington twins running into the snowy woods?
A cruel prank
A cruel prank lured her to a guest room with a note signed in Mike's name while friends hid to watch. Her sister followed her out into the snow.
Q 12How do the friends travel up to the Washington lodge at the start of Until Dawn?
By cable car
By cable car is how each of them arrives, so when the car is later found locked the whole group is stranded on the mountain.
Q 13In Until Dawn, what prevents rescuers from reaching Blackwood Mountain before morning?
A storm
A storm means no rescue can set out until dawn. The friends learn this over the radio from a tower that soon collapses into the mines.
Q 21Which British studio, based in Guildford in Surrey, developed Until Dawn for Sony?
Supermassive Games
Supermassive Games was founded in 2008 and started out making downloadable content for LittleBigPlanet before this unexpected horror hit became its breakout title.
Q 22Which 2022 horror game, set at a summer camp, is regarded as the spiritual successor to Until Dawn?
The Quarry
The Quarry came from the same developer and swaps the snowy mountain for Hackett's Quarry, where nine teenage counsellors must survive their last night.
Q 23In the VR spin-off Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, what kind of ride carries the player through each level?
A roller coaster
Q 14What weapon does the mysterious Stranger carry to fight the wendigos of Until Dawn?
A flamethrower
A flamethrower suits the job because fire is the main weakness of a wendigo. The Stranger has spent his life hunting and trapping the creatures on the mountain.
Q 15Which character is revealed as the lead wendigo stalking the friends in the mines of Until Dawn?
Hannah
Hannah survived the fall that killed her twin, and a tattoo still visible on the creature's arm gives her identity away.
Q 16How do Sam and Mike destroy the lodge full of wendigos at the climax of Until Dawn?
A gas explosion
A gas explosion is set off by the spark from a broken light bulb once the survivors have fled. Flipping the switch too early kills anyone still inside.
Q 17What is Sam wearing when the Psycho chases her through the lodge in Until Dawn?
Only a towel
Only a towel covers Sam because her clothes vanished while she was in the bath. Red balloons marked with arrows then lure her towards the lodge's cinema room.
Q 18In Until Dawn, what do Chris and Ashley use in the lodge to try to reach the dead?
A spirit board
A spirit board session is led by Ashley, who comes to believe that one of the twins is answering. Chris, a sceptic of the occult, treats the whole thing as a joke.
Q 19Which Until Dawn character can Mike shoot in the lodge basement after a wendigo bite is found on her?
Emily
Emily can avoid the bite altogether if she keeps the flare gun found at the radio tower and fires it at the creature chasing her.
Q 20In the sanatorium of Until Dawn, what can cost Mike his fingers?
A bear trap
A bear trap snaps shut on Mike's hand and leaves a grim choice: cut the fingers off, or pry the jaws open with his machete, which breaks in the attempt.
A roller coaster cart carries the player along seven horror-themed tracks, shooting at targets and enemies on the way.
Q 24Until Dawn: Rush of Blood launched in 2016 as a shooter for which virtual reality headset?
PlayStation VR
PlayStation VR was brand new at the time: the spin-off came out on 13 October 2016, the very day the headset itself went on sale.
Q 25What plot device, absent from the game, traps the friends in the 2025 Until Dawn film?
A time loop
A time loop restarts the night whenever the group dies, each time with a new threat. The director felt a straight retelling would only be a cut-down, non-interactive version of the game.
Q 26Which Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. actor plays class president Mike Munroe in Until Dawn?
Brett Dalton
Brett Dalton was one of the few actors kept on when most of the cast was replaced as the game was rebuilt for a newer console.
Q 27Until Dawn was first designed as a first-person PS3 game built around which Sony motion controller?
PlayStation Move
PlayStation Move wands would have steered the characters' flashlight in the early version shown in 2012. Complaints about having to buy the accessory helped prompt a rethink.
Q 28In which country did Until Dawn go on sale with the death scenes censored?
Japan
Japan received a toned-down version of the game. Elsewhere the uncut release became a sleeper hit, even though Sony had done little to market it.
Q 29Which subplot for a female character was cut from Until Dawn for distracting from the main story?
A pregnancy
A pregnancy storyline was dropped along the way, though the team avoided substantial rewrites once motion capture filming had begun.
Q 30Which Quantic Dream game inspired the team behind Until Dawn to make an interactive movie?
Heavy Rain
Heavy Rain pointed the way after the original design, built around aiming a flashlight, proved dull once motion controls were dropped.