The Quarry Hands-on Preview: Until Dawn's Formula Is Unchanged But Still Works

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A group of teenaged camp counselors play truth or dare--and the game almost immediately turns to dares that send one member of the group to kiss another. After all, it's well known at this point that Abi likes Nick and that Emma and Jacob have a thing going. It's the last night of camp and the counselors are stranded until the morning, making this the last opportunity to make any sparks fly.

So Kaitlyn gets the ball rolling, daring Emma to kiss Jacob. But then she throws in a caveat: Emma can choose to kiss Jacob or Nick. Emma opts for the drama, kissing Nick and sending Jacob into a jealous rage. He stalks off in one direction; Abi silently disappears into the darkness in another.

When Nick finds Abi in the woods a few minutes later, they share a moment and, maybe, even a kiss of their own. After a summer of pining over Nick, finally, things are working out for Abi. That's when they hear the growling--and before they can run, something monstrous appears from the shadows, attacking Nick and chasing Abi deeper into the forest. Like nearly every teen horror movie, just as soon as relationships start to form and the kids start to get comfortable, the screaming begins.

For The Quarry, the latest story-driven horror title from Supermassive Games, the somewhat-predictable setup is partially an homage to '80s horror and teen slasher films like A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, and of course, Friday the 13th. It's also partially a case of not fixing something that isn't broken. In fact, a lot of The Quarry will be familiar to anyone who's played Supermassive's other games; the developer previously described it as a spiritual successor to 2015's Until Dawn, and it has a similar vibe to the three games of the ongoing Dark