The game's setting, Bright Falls, draws much inspiration from the early 1990s TV show "Twin Peaks", which was set in the titular town; both fictional small towns in the state of Washington. To research the Pacific Northwest setting for the game, a Remedy team travelled to the area and drove about 2,000 miles between Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, Canada, over two weeks, bringing back over 6,000 photographs and videos of various natural settings and Americana of the small towns in the area. These included Astoria, Oregon and North Bend, Washington, the latter where "Twin Peaks" was filmed, as well as locations used around Seattle for the film "The Ring". Even after returning to Finland, the Remedy team contacted Microsoft, based in Washington, for help with additional photographs.