In a scene familiar to anyone who has ever watched a horror film, two young people are driving down a road at night, affectionately bickering about being lost. “We’re the L word,” Laura (Siobhan Williams) tells her boyfriend Max (Skyler Gisondo). “What, lesbians?” he says, but the banter comes to an abrupt end when Max runs into a large animal on the road. Or … was it? In the prologue alone, The Quarry offers up a buffet of horror staples, from eerie rustling in the woods to the sudden appearance of a shifty-looking policeman played by Ted Raimi.
The main story begins two months after Max and Laura’s accident: the counsellors at Hackett’s Quarry summer camp are just packing up the last of their belongings when an accident forces them to stay another night. Camp owner Chris Hackett (David Arquette) tells them not to leave the safety of the lodge under any circumstances, so of course the group immediately begins to plan a party. These preparations are our leisurely introduction to The Quarry’s cast, a familiar yet entertaining range of archetypes from jock to social-media-obsessed barbie doll to wallflower, as well as to the rhythm of play: exploration and dialogue choices interspersed with frantic button-pressing in moments of tension. We’re given several hours to really get to know them before the game unleashes its horrors. By developer Supermassive Games’s own admission, The Quarry is a game designed for people who don’t usually play video games. The action is simple and can be adjusted to suit the player’s individual accessibility needs, and gameplay never involves more than one button at a time. You can even pick what you want characters to do and just watch the whole game as one long movie. It is refreshingly unprecious of Supermassive to create a game that doesn’t have to be played like a game, but it does come at the expense of engagement. A lot of the tension in games such as this comes from accidentally flubbing a button press, and that is hardly possible here. Only rifle shooting offers room for error, thrilling sequences where the whole camera shakes with your character’s adrenaline while your target rapidly closes in.
The dialogue choices, too, feel inconsequential – you choose between sympathetic and rude responses, and though you’re shown how your conversation partner feels about your choice of words, it doesn’t seem to lead to any in-game consequences. But the relative lack of gameplay doesn’t mean that The Quarry lacks variety. There are no less than 186 different endings, and while most players won’t see more than a handful, it’s nice that no two people’s experience will be quite the same. There’s a little bit of everything, including chases, running and hiding, and splatter horror that’s as gruesome as it is unexpected.
Once it gets going, The Quarry is consistently engaging despite its lack of gameplay complexity, presenting itself not as a jump-scare-laden mystery, but as an exploration of its characters’ reactions to fear and danger. While horror influences abound, it still makes time to let teens be teens – in one scene Dylan (Miles Robbins) and Kaitlyn (Brenda Song) are making their way through a dark forest, always fearing a sudden attack, but still find the opportunity to talk about the stuff that really matters, namely Dylan’s camp crush. The dialogue in these moments is particularly strong, not only because the teenagers sound like actual teens, but because the characters are by turns quippy and bracingly honest.
You will probably leave with several favourite characters, having glimpsed their lives beyond that one night of supernatural threats. You’re never left in doubt about what the threat actually is, and that only serves to prove that classic monster and ghost stories still work despite all their tropes, or indeed precisely because of them. The Quarry’s charming writing and cinematic presentation make it an engrossing horror caper – even if this is, paradoxically, a game that’s often at its best when you’re not actively playing it.
About the series
This game was out in ten of June so many youtuber played it for example Jacksepticeye, TheRadBard, Faze Jav. Shub need to played this game because it is a choices same. It is developed by same people who developed Until Dawn .It game is based on a movie in 2020 called The Quarry the story is the same but the scene are not well Shub need to play it anyway because he need to keep his channel alive he can't wait for 2023 from RE4 .Right now Shub have two series he currently playing GT5 and The Quarry