The Quarry Pre-order Bonus (DLC)

I'll be straight with you: this is a DLC pack, not a game, and its scope matches that reality entirely. The Quarry Pre-order Bonus delivers one thing - the Horror History Visual Filter Pack, which gives you three selectable cinematic overlays to apply to the base game: an 8mm film grain (Indie Horror), a retro VHS wash (80s Horror), and a black-and-white classic horror filter. That's the whole package. If you were hoping for extra story content, new characters, or additional branching paths, this is not that. With that said, the filters actually make sense as an add-on for the base game The Quarry is. Supermassive built the whole experience around recreating the feel of 1980s slasher films - nine camp counselors, one very bad final night, and a branching narrative full of QTEs, binary story decisions, and exploration segments that build toward genuinely high-stakes survival outcomes. Throwing a VHS grain over that experience is not a gimmick; it's a reasonably coherent aesthetic match. The 80s Horror filter in particular works well during darker outdoor scenes, and the black-and-white Classic Horror option lends a surprisingly eerie quality to the more atmospheric chapters. The base game itself - which you must own to use this - runs around ten hours per playthrough and features a cast of recognizable film and TV actors whose performances carry a lot of the emotional weight. The interactive movie structure (cinematic cutscenes, timed dialogue choices, QTEs, and occasional shooting segments) is the same formula Supermassive used in Until Dawn, refined and expanded. Your decisions affect individual character fates in ways that often pay off several chapters later, and the game supports couch co-op by letting players assign characters and pass the controller. For this DLC to be worth activating, you need to be actively enjoying that base experience enough to want to tweak its look. The honest question is whether this DLC warrants a standalone purchase post-launch. The filters are a fun novelty for one playthrough, particularly the VHS option, but they do not change the game in any mechanical way. If you grabbed this during pre-order, great - it integrates cleanly through the Settings menu with no complex setup required. If you are considering buying it now specifically to enhance a first playthrough, weigh whether the visual style matters enough to you to justify the cost. It is not content; it is a lens.

Alex · Scout Team

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