The Quarry interview: chatting horror and relationships with the game’s director

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“I've watched a lot of horror. I mean, a lot of horror,” The Quarry’s creative director Will Byles says. “Probably way too much, and I have done since I was a kid. My sister used to make me watch horror films with her [laughs].”

The Quarry is the latest big-budget horror game from Supermassive Games, the team behind Until Dawn and The Dark Pictures anthology, two games that found huge audiences, but The Quarry is the developer’s finest work yet.

Not only does the game look brilliant, capturing the fantastic performances of its Hollywood cast, but it makes your choices in the story feel like they have real impact, with decisions you make early in the game playing out deep into the late-game. A ton of effort was clearly put into making The Quarry close to the best game it could possibly be.

It’s clear from speaking with Byles, The Quarry is born from the team’s deep love of all things horror. The Quarry might not be the scariest horror game, but it’s one of the most ambitious and creative I’ve played in years.

“So basically it's a playable teen horror,” Byles says, giving me The Quarry’s elevator pitch. “It's a traditional teen horror, in fact actually quite an archetypal or cliched teen horror. Everyone can live, everyone can die, as you play them through the game. If you die, you stay dead. You don't get better.”

The double meaning of the title also hints at what you’re getting into. “The quarry itself is a place called Hackett's Quarry,” he states, “and it's a really evocative place to set a horror. Quarry also means 'the hunted' or that which is hunted, is the prey, so once the game gets going, you realize they are also the quarry.”

Supermassive Games might be best known for Until Dawn, but it’s also behind The Dark Pictures