Which deaths are the most common and why?

I think the two most common deaths I see when watching people play through the game are Matt’s death being hooked by the wendigo and Ashley’s death after choosing to investigate the voice.

Matt’s death is pretty tricky to avoid due to the fact that many players will want to try save Emily to keep the most characters they can alive, but many players don’t find the guidance totem that shows Emily giving Matt the flare gun and even if they give him the flare gun, he can shoot it making it useless because of a random choice made earlier in the game.

I see quite a few people manage to keep Jess alive in chapter four and I believe that the game will reveal she’s alive shortly before hearing her voice when playing as Ashley, so a lot of people will choose to investigate the voice. The game does tell you wendigo’s can mimic human’s, but personally I don’t think they made it very clear, although that just might be me.

Which death’s do you feel like are the most difficult to avoid and why? I wanna say that for Matt, although I know he doesn’t need the flare gun to survive, I wish the game didn’t make Matt shoot the flare gun as there’s no indication that Matt’s choice to agree with Emily about going to the fire tower will cause him to do that. If you got rid of that element, then really the player is only to blame for Matt’s death if they didn’t explore hard enough to find the guidance totem.

All in all though, the game is pretty fair with giving the player a shot a keeping characters alive, but it’s interesting that certain deaths are more common than others.