The Quarry
Skip · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 38, under the fair line, at $59.99.
- Length
- 9.2h
- Value
- $6.52/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 780 / Radeon RX 470, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
When the sun goes down on the last night of summer camp, nine teenage counselors are plunged into an unpredictable night of horror. The only thing worse than the blood-drenched locals and creatures hunting them are the unimaginable choices you must make to help them survive.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 38 in the 5 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 39 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan ($19.99, scores 47) beats it on value, while it beats The Casting of Frank Stone™ ($29.99, scores 6).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 18 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 9.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 11 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 897 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 9.2 hours; clearing it takes 33, which is 3.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
81% start to 18% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
171 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 07:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Really not as bad as some people made it out to be. If you go into this expecting a serious horror game with S-tier writing, that's going to be your first mistake, because this game is goofy and it does not shy away from the fact that it's goofy. Personally, I enjoyed it. It's campy, both figuratively and literally, and it doesn't take itself too seriously. It feels like watching one of those cheesy '80s slasher...
An excellent interactive movie game with high production quality. What frustrated me the most was missing the "Rough Night" achievement in Chapter 1 because I failed to pick up the silver bracelet; plus, the PC version has one fewer achievement than the PS5 version.
I loved this game then it sort of just...ended. You get a slideshow of what happened to each character and the credits roll while a podcast plays providing a really lackluster epilogue. I was going to play through it again just to see all the different outcomes but after experiencing the "ending" I have no interest in the slightest. It's really a tragedy because the character performances are outstanding and the...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Quarry scores 38/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1577120/the-quarryReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 19, price as of Oct 1.
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