Tag Archives: SupermassiveGames

Until Dawn

Publisher: Sony
Developer: Supermassive Games
Year: 2015
Platform: Windows, PS4, PS5

Rating: 7

The first game I played by Supermassive was The Quarry, and it appears I was a bit spoiled. I heard great things about Until Dawn, but I didn’t own a Playstation. And then they released it on 2024 on the PC, but my computer couldn’t handle the specs at the time. I finally got around to it this year. And I wished I had played Until Dawn first. I thoroughly enjoyed myself, but I couldn’t help thinking the entire time how they improved the choice-based horror formula in nearly ever single way a few years later

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The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan

Publisher: Bandai Namco
Developer: SupermassiveGames
Year: 2019
Platform: Windows, PS4, PS5, Xbox One

Rating: 4

The Dark Pictures Anthology is a series of four relatively short games (so far) in Supermassive’s usual formula of narrative-based horror. The first game, Man of Medan, does a decent job at providing action and scares, though ultimately left me unsatisfied thanks to a poor script and mediocre story.

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The Quarry

Publisher: 2K Games
Developer: Supermassive Games
Year: 2022
Platform: Windows, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series

Rating: 8

As one camp counselor drags her boyfriend into a storm shelter in the middle of the night to investigate some movement she saw, he half-nervously and half-sarcastically says, “Have you seen Evil Dead?” While there is no fourth wall breaking in The Quarry, the characters are definitely aware they are experiencing a horror movie. The forthcoming honest depiction of how nine teenagers might cope with near constant terror is one of the reasons this is one of the best scary games I’ve played.

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