The Quarry

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Keep nine camp counselors alive through one night in the woods.

Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox
Stores: Steam
Price: Paid
Rated: Very Positive on Steam (82% of 25,625 reviews); Metascore 79 on Metacritic (PC, 87 critics)
Length: about 10 hours
Players: 1 to 8
Made by: Supermassive Games
Released: 2022

No. 21 of the party horror games · No. 9 of the summer camp horror games · No. 11 of the werewolf horror games

What frightens On the last night of summer camp in upstate New York, nine teenage counselors are hunted through the woods by blood-drenched locals and something far worse howling in the dark; any of them can die for good from one wrong choice.
Content: gore, violence, strong language, mild sexual themes, death of characters, optional in-game purchases.

A cinematic horror game from Supermassive Games, makers of Until Dawn. On the last night at Hackett's Quarry summer camp in upstate New York, nine counselors throw a party and end up hunted by armed locals and something much worse. You play each of them, and every choice decides who sees the morning; friends can share the couch or watch and vote online. A free trial includes the Prologue.

About The Quarry

The Quarry was made by Supermassive Games and published by 2K in June 2022, for PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, and Xbox One and Series X|S. It was planned as a spiritual successor to Until Dawn and draws on teen slasher and monster films. The ensemble cast includes David Arquette, Ariel Winter, Justice Smith, Brenda Song, Lance Henriksen, Lin Shaye, Ted Raimi and Grace Zabriskie.

Camp is over and the kids have gone home, but the counselors are stuck one more night in the remote forests of upstate New York. Their party becomes a night of horror as they are hunted by blood-drenched locals and something sinister in the woods. You switch between all nine, exploring the camp and the forest, searching for clues, evidence and tarot cards, and making the choices that set the story's course. Between chapters a fortune teller reads the cards you have found.

Play is cinematic: you walk, look and pick up objects, choose between lines and actions in tense moments, react to quick-time prompts, aim and shoot when a character has a gun, and hold your breath to stay hidden. Difficulty can be adjusted for every gameplay element, and button mashing, quick-time events and aiming can be turned off. Choices large and small change relationships and who lives, and the endings range from everyone surviving to everyone dying.

It plays like a teen horror film you control, with jokes and gore. It is at its best with friends: in couch co-op each person picks counselors and plays their scenes, and online up to seven friends can watch and vote on decisions. Movie Mode lets you set how the characters behave and watch the story play out. After a first playthrough, Death Rewind lets you undo three deaths per run.

The Deluxe Edition adds 1980s outfits, Death Rewind from the start, a Gorefest Movie Mode and visual filters styled after 8mm indie horror, 80s VHS and black-and-white classic horror. A free trial contains the Prologue; trial players can be invited to vote online, and their progress carries over if they buy the game. Critics gave it a Metascore of 79 on PC, and it is rated Very Positive on Steam.

How to play The Quarry

Pick a mode: play alone, with friends on one couch taking counselors, or online with friends voting.
Explore each scene, picking up clues, evidence and tarot cards.
Choose between two paths in conversations and dangerous moments; your choices shape the night.
React to quick-time prompts, aim when given a gun, and hold your breath to stay hidden.
Between chapters, see a fortune teller who shows visions from the tarot cards you found.

Screenshots

The Quarry screenshot: a young counselor looks up at night under a full moon

The Quarry screenshot: a counselor in a cap watches another hold up a phone light beside a car with its trunk open in the misty woods

The Quarry screenshot: frightened counselors, one of them bloodied, stand in the dark before a red-lit wall

The Quarry screenshot: the camp owner, wearing a C. Hackett name tag, talks before a window glowing with firelight

The Quarry screenshot: a police officer seen from behind holds a pistol before open yellow metal doors in a dark concrete room

Tips

Collect tarot cards: each lets the fortune teller show you a glimpse of a possible future.
Read evidence and clues; some change what the characters know and can do later.
If reactions are not your strength, lower the difficulty or turn off button mashing, quick-time events and aiming in the options.
Death Rewind unlocks after your first playthrough and undoes three character deaths per run; the Deluxe Edition gives it from the start.
Try the free trial first: it contains the Prologue, and your progress carries over if you buy.

Questions

Is The Quarry multiplayer?

Yes. In couch co-op up to eight players each pick counselors and play their scenes, and online up to seven friends can watch and vote on choices. Trial players can be invited to the online vote too.

How long is The Quarry?

Its director has said a single playthrough takes about ten hours. With 186 endings, many players go back for more runs.

Is The Quarry connected to Until Dawn?

Not in story. It is a new tale from the same studio, planned as a spiritual successor and built the same way.

Can everyone survive?

Yes, any of the nine counselors can live or die depending on what you do.

Is there a free version?

There is a free trial that contains the Prologue. If you buy the game, your progress carries over.