In 2015, Supermassive Games hit gold with Until Dawn, an innovative interactive horror about a group of youngsters trying to survive the night on a snowy mountainside. Since then, they've cornered the market in this niche genre, and The Quarry is another full-length adventure filled with drama, action and unnerving horror.

A collection of teenagers, having just finished their stint as counsellors at a summer camp called Hackett's Quarry (the game's polysemous title is a nice touch), find themselves at the mercy of an unknown terror. While the threat is teased in a pacy prologue, the early game is spent setting the scene and getting to know these characters. Much of this is set to winsome indie-folk music, heavily influenced by the melancholy Life Is Strange series. While this sometimes stretches patience (it turns into a teen relationship drama for a very long time), it's crucial for players to invest in these people as each of them is playable at some point, and their fates will ultimately rest in our hands.

On top of a stellar horror cast which includes David Arquette, Lance Henriksen, Lin Shaye and Ted Raimi (outstanding as a creepy police officer), the main characters are well written and convincingly performed. If the majority of protagonists in horror films are disposable idiots, that's certainly not the case here. Controlling nine different characters can be problematic, though; it's discombobulating to suddenly switch to a new charge, and frustrating to be forced into a binary choice when neither option corresponds to how you'd personally react.

Each chapter is introduced by a mysterious fortune-teller played by Grace Zabriskie (Twin Peaks' Sarah Palmer) and she is absolutely mesmerising: a deeply unsettling, tic-filled clairvoyant with mysterious intentions. The Quarry is a superb piece of interactive horror, featuring great performances and animation so impressive that you can easily forget it's not a real film.

The Quarry is out now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.