The Quarry

The Quarry’s charming cast and eye-watering visual splendour are worth the price of entry alone, but its strong, varying plot is where it truly pops.

Wearing every cliché on its sleeve, The Quarry is having a whale of a time with its setting. Sometimes it's satirising the slasher film, others it subverts them. With many endings and path-altering decisions to make, no two playthroughs are alike. Coupled with a heap of horror alumni, as well as up and comers, The Quarry is a veritable romp through jump scares, ghost stories and video nasties.

A true love letter to classic teen slasher flicks, The Quarry is a memorable mix of polish and tension let down by a few frustrating mechanics. A real treat and must-play for fans of the horror genre.

Sometimes ridiculously ridiculous, sometimes convincingly exciting; this interactive slasher film is a worthy spiritual successor to Until Dawn. Unfortunately, The Quarry has barely been modernized, with pretty much the exact same minimal gameplay, graphics, and story structure. But the plot, characters and kills are most likely exactly what Supermassive Games fans were hoping for.

Rewarding those who are restrained as well as those who are reckless, The Quarry is nerve-shredding as a single-player game - so who knows what chaos will ensue with its multiplayer modes? For fans of schlocky yet satirical horror games and films, The Quarry is not one to miss.

Quotation forthcoming.

Supermassive Games keeps giving us the same game every time and it’s simply not getting any better. The Quarry isn’t scary, isn’t thrilling and isn’t fun.

A great game if it's in offer. It has a great story and you can pick the decisions

Not so scary but a nice game. .............................................

Ryan pissed me off always when he's on screen! I wish they spend more time with the backstory though

Unlikable characters, bad writing and some unclear choices leaves this as a 5

Honestly I was expecting a lot more from this game. I loved Until Dawn (2015) and its rich lore, excellent scares and excellent balance between watching and playing. Sadly The Quarry isn't as good. It took me about 9 hours to get through it and it was a slow ten hours. Realistically they only had 90 minutes of content. The story is unimaginative and unoriginal. It's pretty much the same story as Howling VI: The Freaks (1991) but that is actually way better because it humanises the enemy and is scarier. Not good when you're getting compared unfavourably to a Howling sequel. Anyway ignoring the slow pacing and inconsistent tone the graphics are good with some technical issues involving the depth of field and water which can be a little distracting. Sound design and music is excellent. The acting is also excellent except for one miscast in the form of Ethan Suplee. The characters are actually really quite watchable but should be in a better game. I messed up in the final chapter and didn't get the good ending and much as I wanted to see it I really couldn't bring myself to play through it again, maybe in a few years. I tried the movie mode hoping it would just give me the core story but sadly it was the whole game without the walking around so was probably even more boring than the game. Watching movie mode made me realise that in my two times playing Until Dawn I had two quite different stories but my choices in The Quarry largely only really affected the ending. You know what I also hate, the werewolves don't look like wolves at all. Overall slow and tonally inconsistent with some entertainment within.