The Quarry is a really weird game, it’s kinda hard to even consider it a game. The Quarry is an odd experience that plays homage to both old 80’s horror movies and old school PS1 and PS2 survival horror games, as well as being a modern horror experience. Despite the dark tones and murders in the game, it also still is able to be a really funny game at times. The plot of The Quarry follows nine camp counselors, who have to stay for one more night after one of them, Jacob, breaks the car so he can try to get back together with his ex-girlfriend, Emma. However, they don’t know the dangers that are waiting for them in Hackett’s Quarry. Gameplay is mostly cutscenes with QTEs and choices changing the outcome of the story, but there are still some pets where you walk around, which switch between over the shoulder cameras and fixed camera angles. The graphics in the game are extremely realistic, each of the characters were modeled to look like their voice actor, and motion capture is used to help bring this world together even more. Pretty much every single character in this game has a way to live, and at least one way to die, if not more. Going through the game, trying to have all your characters live can be stressful but fun. The game also has multiplayer which goes up to eight players, so there’s a ton of replayability. The only lackluster things in the game is the lack in ending, the majority of them are pretty boring and don’t lead to much of an interesting ending, but these do lead into a funny credits sequence so that makes up for most of it.

Reviewed on Mar 30, 2024


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