The DeanBeat: The wonderful tropes of horror in The Quarry

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Supermassive Games‘ The Quarry is another one of those wonderful interactive movie horror games that drive you mad with choices as you try to make the right decisions to save a group of teenagers at a summer camp.

The creators have come a long way in the past seven years with five horror titles since 2015’s Until Dawn. I was predisposed to like The Quarry, which was published by 2K and feels almost like a remake of 2015’s Until Dawn because that title was my favorite game of that year.

This time, the Supermassive Games team stole a setting from itself, as The Quarry’s summer camp setting with a lodge full of teenagers isn’t so different from its original interactive horror game Until Dawn. In that way, The Quarry is kind of a redo of Until Dawn.

In the 2015 story, eight young adult friends are trapped on a remote mountain getaway after they find that a killer is loose among them. Your job as the player is to make snap life-or-death decisions and save as many of them as you can as dawn approaches.

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But the multiple games that followed the successful Until Dawn until The Quarry were much more than just horror stories. They were morality plays, where you had to make decisions about who to save and who to let die. You had to pay attention to the relationships between characters, like whether they should fall in love or not. It made you feel like