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The Quarry

“There’s an enjoyable tension in figuring out who is on your side.”

Supermassive Games loves horror movies. The studio’s first attempt to express that passion was 2015’s Until Dawn – a chilly, QTE-laden rendition of I Know What You Did Last Summer set on a mountain inhabited by flesh-hungry monsters and, even worse, teenagers. Met with critical acclaim at the time, each successive project has felt like an attempt to rebottle the lightning of that first choose-your-own-death-adventure.

While we’ve been less warm towards The Dark Pictures Anthology, it’s clear that summer camp slasher The Quarry would not exist without that series either. Supermassive always had the fire and now, if the best-looking

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