Summary
Developed by the horror veterans at Supermassive Games,The Quarrywas released to critical acclaimin June 2022. Many reviewers praised the game’s atmosphere, choice-driven narrative, and overall writing, which they opined successfully combined extreme tension with moments of levity.The Quarrywas nominated for half a dozen accolades and currently sits at nearly 7,500 “Very Positive” reviews on Steam.
Xbox Game Pass Version of The Quarry Is Cloud and Console Only
Select Xbox Game Pass members who haven’t yet got a chance to play it can finally see what all the fuss was about starting today, March 20. “Select” because, unlike the vast majority of titles that make their way to Microsoft’s subscription service,The Quarryis only available on consoles and via Xbox Cloud Gaming. Whilesome Xbox Game Pass titles do occasionally skip PC, that most often happens with games without PC ports. Microsoft did not elaborate on the decision not to makeThe Quarryavailable to PC Game Pass users.
Nevertheless,The Quarryfurther bolsters the already long list ofhigh-quality horror titles on Xbox Game Pass. Its debut also arrives just two months after Microsoft’s subscription library has expanded to include another pair of well-received horror games in the form ofThose Who Remainand theResident Evil 2remake. None of those titles are particularly long, with a single playthrough ofThe Quarrybeing estimated to take around ten hours. However, the newly added survival horror game is also fairly replayable, as it boasts 186 endings.
Granted, that figure refers to the number of permutations of who gets to survive the game’s gruesome events, and in what state, based on the player’s choices throughout the story. While there hence won’t be a need to actually replayThe Quarry186 times to see everything it has to offer, horror genre aficionados are still likely to find it worth experiencing multiple times.
The Quarrywon’t be the last ofMarch 2024 additions to Xbox Game Pass; Flying Wild Hod’s third-person shooterEvil Westis scheduled to reach the service on March 21, followed by Pavonis Interactive’s sci-fi strategy gameTerra Invictaon March 26. Microsoft then intends to end the month on a high note by simultaneously releasing three games,Diablo 4,Open Roads, andHot Wheels Unleashed 2: Turbocharged, on March 28.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is the highest tier of Microsoft’s flagship game subscription service that offers over 100 game titles that you can play with a single purchase, making it one of the most outstanding value propositions of the Xbox ecosystem to date.
