We played The Quarry the way we usually do these kinds of games: we assigned the characters beforehand and passed the gamepad around. It's all about who's responsible for whom when the advisor ventures into the dark forest "just to have a look."

It's not a masterpiece, even in the Supermassive series. But it knows the genre. Summer camp, beautiful, dumb teenagers, bad decisions, and a full moon—the pure spirit of third-rate teen horror films from the early 2000s. Not scary in the modern sense, but in the cassette-style: everyone's screaming, everyone's secretly in love, everyone's following the sound instead of calling for help.

It's better with two players than alone. When the characters are divided, each scene becomes a mini-trial: you saved yours but set up mine, and now we'll be discussing it until the morning. The deaths are spectacular, the twists are clear, and the actors elevate the material above the script. Yes, the jokes sometimes fall flat, the plot is unsurprising, and the ending is a bit too over-the-top. But an evening spent playing the game passes easily: I handed over the controller, watched my wife crawl into the bushes again, and realized that's exactly why we sat down here.

A decent game of its genre. Not a revelation, but with the right whiff of cheap horror and a good reason to swear without anger.