Six and a half hours — the completionist playthrough where every character survives, the game demonstrating the full scope of what the butterfly effect can produce when guided toward the best outcome. The secrets buried alive in the Quarry's woods are the Hackett family's history, the curse, the generations of management of something that should have been ended. Buried alive rather than simply buried is the game's distinction: the secret is not dead, it is merely underground, still capable of action, still requiring the specific pressure of the night's events to surface.

Everyone living is the ideal outcome that the mechanics make possible and the tone makes feel genuinely earned — the game knows how many choices could have gone differently, and the survival of all nine counselors is the record of every one of them going right.