The Quarry: How Interactive Narrative Video games Brings out the Finest in Horror

I’m thrilled to say that The Quarry, the all-new teen-horror narrative recreation from Supermassive Video games and the award-winning staff behind Till Daybreak, is lastly launching at the moment!

For any gamers who’re unfamiliar with The Quarry, our premise is straightforward. You play as a gaggle of 9 teenage camp counselors who discover themselves stranded for yet one more evening at Hackett’s Quarry summer time camp, and resolve to throw a celebration to have fun their ultimate evening collectively. This rustic camp, positioned deep within the woods of upstate New York, simply occurs to be devoid of a lot of at the moment’s fashionable comforts — like cell service. What might presumably go mistaken? Naturally, the celebration shortly takes a flip for the more serious as the advisors are plunged into an unpredictable evening of horror, and discover themselves hunted by blood-drenched locals and one thing much more sinister. All through the course of the sport, you’ll be pressured to make unimaginable decisions and choices which might be usually a matter of life or dying. In The Quarry, any of the advisors might be the star of the present — or die earlier than daylight comes.

To actually convey the expertise to life, we introduced on a solid of Hollywood expertise and horror legends to convey their experience to those characters, together with David Arquette (“Scream” franchise,) Ariel Winter (“Fashionable Household”), Justice Smith (“Jurassic World”), Brenda Music (“Dollface”), and extra. One of many questions we generally get requested is, why not merely create a horror movie as a substitute? What’s it about interactive narrative video games that make them so well-suited to horror?

For me, I imagine that the core enchantment of horror comes all the way down to a query we ask ourselves on a regular basis: “What would you do?” Horror challenges us to consider this query below excessive circumstances and permits us to see the results of our decisions.

Films and TV reveals are linear — all we will do is observe, and the end result is all the time the identical regardless of what number of instances you watch your favourite horror flick. What’s so particular about video games is that it’s the solely leisure medium the place you might be actually in a position to reply the query of “what would you do?” your self.

In The Quarry, you can be confronted with making all forms of decisions, large and small, that form your story and decide who lives to inform the story. A few of these decisions will merely have an effect on your relationship between your fellow camp counselors, whereas others would possibly dramatically affect how your story unfolds, even figuring out who makes it by way of the evening alive.

I can’t wait to see what decisions gamers will make throughout their playthroughs of The Quarry. We constructed this recreation to be extraordinarily replayable, with a number of branching story paths, dialog choices, character dynamics, and finales to your evening of horror. On behalf of the staff at Supermassive Video games, thanks to your assist. You’ll be able to choose up The Quarry at the moment for Xbox One and Xbox Sequence X|S right here on the Xbox Retailer.

The Quarry for Xbox One

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On-line multiplayer performance might be accessible post-launch on or by July 8, 2022.

Because the solar units on the final day of summer time camp, the teenage counselors of Hackett’s Quarry throw a celebration to have fun. No youngsters. No adults. No guidelines.

Issues shortly take a flip for the more serious.

Hunted by blood-drenched locals and one thing much more sinister, the teenagers’ celebration plans unravel into an unpredictable evening of horror. Pleasant banter and flirtations give method to life-or-death choices, as relationships construct or break below the pressure of unimaginable decisions.

Play as every of the 9 camp counselors in an exciting cinematic story, the place each resolution shapes your distinctive story from a tangled net of prospects. Any character might be the star of the present—or die earlier than daylight comes.

How will your story unfold?

YOUR STORY, THEIR FATE
Will you dare to examine what’s behind that lure door? Will you examine the screams echoing from throughout the forest? Will you save your folks or desperately run to your life? Each selection, large or small, shapes your story and determines who lives to inform the story.

A STUNNING CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE
Innovative facial seize and filmic lighting strategies, mixed with unbelievable performances from an iconic ensemble solid of Hollywood expertise, convey the horrors of Hackett’s Quarry to life in a pulse-pounding, cinematic thrill experience.

ENJOY THE FRIGHT WITH FRIENDS
Place your religion in as much as 7 mates in on-line play*, the place invited gamers watch alongside and vote on key choices, making a story formed by the entire group! Or, play collectively in a celebration horror sofa co-op expertise the place every participant picks a counselor and controls their actions.

CUSTOMIZE YOUR EXPERIENCE
Adjustable issue for all gameplay components let gamers of any talent degree benefit from the horror. And in case you want to look at fairly than play, Film Mode permits you to take pleasure in The Quarry as a binge-worthy cinematic thriller. Choose the way you need the story to unfold, sit back, and munch on some popcorn in between all of the screams!

STARRING:
David Arquette as Chris
Ariel Winter as Abigail
Brenda Music as Kaitlyn
Evan Evagora as Nick
Halston Sage as Emma
Justice Smith as Ryan
Miles Robbins as Dylan
Siobhan Williams as Laura
Skyler Gisondo as Max
Zach Tinker as Jacob
Ethan Suplee as Bobby
Grace Zabriskie as Eliza
Lance Henriksen as Jedediah
Lin Shaye as Constance
Ted Raimi as Travis

*Multiplayer performance throughout identical era solely.