Review: The Quarry – PS5
Hello dear friends! The Quarry is the brand new interactive drama horror video game developed by Supermassive Games and published by 2K Games. Everyone can now enjoy this entertaining adventure on PlayStation 4, PlayStation5, Xbox series X/S, Xbox One, and PC as The Quarry has been released last Friday.
For those of you who are not familiar with this game, The Quarry is the long-awaited spiritual successor to the excellent action horror game Until Dawn from Supermassive Games. We received our review code for The Quarry on release day and we spent some time over the weekend in the remote forests of upstate New York, with the teen counselors of Hackett’s Quarry.
It’s late summer and we have the camp to ourselves for one final night. So, no kids, no adults, and no stupid rules. But things will turn out to be not as fun as everyone hoped because wrong decisions will pile one upon another and bodies will start to fall like flies.
The Quarry is a thrilling cinematic tale filled with branching pads, strange mysteries, dark secrets, and death.
As the player, we control the fates and lives of all the nine playable characters as their long-awaited night of partying transforms into a surreal nightmare.
With life-or-death decisions waiting at every step to catch us on the wrong foot, our choices will determine how the story unfolds and whom, if any, of our protagonists will get to see the sunrise. Just like it was the case in Until Dawn, there are a lot of traps and unfortunate events in The Quarry that will do their best to claim one or five of our characters.
The gameplay is very similar to Until Dawn or the more recent The Dark Pictures Anthology, so everyone who played decision-based games in the last 10 years should feel right at home in The Quarry.
Throughout the game, we have the opportunity to explore the scenic surroundings and dark corners of Hackett’s Quarry Summer Camp and all its locales. Those of you who are interested in collectibles should be very happy to learn that if you make sure to keep an eye out for them and for other hidden clues, you can learn a little more about the region and its mysterious history.
There are a few ways in which we can play the game. First, there is the single-player experience, the couch co-op which allows you to give the controller to one or more friends in the same room, the upcoming social multiplayer mode which we couldn’t test yet, and Movie Mode, which puts the player in the directorial chair and allows them to take all the important decisions without any additional hustle.
Sadly, in the beginning, the Movie Mode is locked behind a pricier version of the game or you need to finish the game at least once in order to unlock the mode for the standard edition.
The Quarry looks great, the voice acting is excellent especially since top-notch actors, like David Arquette, from movies and TV shows are bringing some of these characters to life.
One complaint that I have, well, we have because Alina is the one who actually played the game and can see, is that the HDR isn’t calibrated properly for this game. We’ve encountered very dark scenes multiple times which made the content almost unplayable. To be sure that it’s not a problem on our end, we checked the Internet and there are lots of other players reporting this issue.
When it comes to accessibility, The Quarry is not that accessible, to be honest. Sadly, aside from a few options, like color-blind variants and aim assist settings, you can tweak only the duration of timers on choices and Quick Time Events, along with the option to reduce the intensity of button-mashing QTEs. There is no text to speech, no special sound cues, no menu narration – nothing to make this game blind accessible.
This is very sad, because with the Movie Mode implemented correctly, with accessibility options in mind, The Quarry could have been at least playable by the blind as an interactive movie. The thing is that it would have been very easy. A narrator on the screen should have asked the player what decision he wants to take, press Square to go left, plus circle to go right, press triangle to go up, or press cross to go down, or even better, everything could have been done with the directional keys or with the stick. The same thing could have been implemented for taking decisions – press X button to take that decision; I think it is a missed opportunity.
I’m sure that the majority of players will enjoy The Quarry tremendously because it is a good game, with a great atmosphere, excellent voice acting end extremely entertaining. With a huge potential for replayability, The Quarry should keep everyone busy for a long time.
The talented people at Supermassive Games have done a fantastic job with this title and The Quarry can sit comfortably as the spiritual successor to one of the best horror experiences on the PlayStation 4!
Review copy provided by CDMedia
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Victor Dima
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