The Quarry’s adult characters are what make the game great

polygon.com:

When The Quarry starts, the player is locked into their journey via the truly terrible decisions of a bunch of hormone-riddled teens. Hackett’s Quarry is the site of a summer camp, and the young Hacketteers have all packed up and gone home. Now, it’s night, and the counselors are stranded in the quarry along with gore-soaked monsters, ominous hunters, and mysterious dead bodies. It’s a great formula for a campy horror story full of chills and thrills. But the real draw isn’t the teen counselors — it’s the much more interesting adult cast.

Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Quarry.

The Quarry starts with a series of very silly decisions. It’s quite similar to watching a protagonist slowly descend into the dark basement in a horror movie; you know it’s a bad call, but you can’t stop any of it. One of the camp counselors, an insecure himbo named Jacob, decides to sabotage their ride out of there in the hope of using an extra night with no adult supervision to romance a girl. Things quickly go horribly wrong.

The player controls the teens as they start their epic bonfire, survive a few initial attacks, and then make a plan to escape the quarry and get to safety. But there’s more to the foreboding monster attacks than it first appears. As it turns out, the Hackett family are at the heart of it all. And these characters — brothers Chris (David Arquette) and Travis (Ted Raimi) and the family’s matriarch Constance (Lin Shaye) and patriarch Jedediah (Lance Henriksen) — are the best part of the game.

Hackett’s Quarry, you see, is cursed. The family is hiding a big werewolf problem, and the Hacketts don’t particularly want anyone else to get hurt. The summer camp isn’t a trick or trap; it was established as a legitimate