The Quarry is a video game version of a fun slasher flick

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The Quarry is the next game coming from Supermassive, the studio behind Until Dawn and the Dark Pictures Anthology. I got to play a short bit of the game in a preview this week. Superficially, it’s very similar to those games, but it’s got some fun, campy (no pun intended) vibes that its predecessors lacked.

The game is a summer camp horror flick in video game form, set in the fictional Hackett’s Quarry. You play a handful of teenaged camp counselors having one more night of fun at the end of summer. During their night of fun, some human hunters and something supernatural crash the party. It’s up to the player to keep as many of them alive as possible, and the choices you make as you play will determine their fates. Yeah, it’s Until Dawn-meets-Friday the 13th.

I didn’t get to play a huge amount of the game, but I did get to play as a few of the kids during my preview period. Well, I say “kids” — they’re all played by actors ranging in age from mid-20s to early 30s. And yet I get a more kid-like feeling from them than I did from the characters in Until Dawn. They finagle a way to stay one more night at the camp alone and are explicitly told to stay inside where it’s safe. So what do they do? Go outside to have a big party. Sounds about right.

The characters fit the usual teenager archetypes that Supermassive used in Until Dawn. You’ve got the bro, the shy girl, the pretty blonde, and of course one character who’s the de facto leader. None of them have a lot of depth, at least not from what I saw. You’ll probably be able to spot the murder victims and the possible final girl/guy as soon as you see them. If you’re a real