Some surprising new details have unearthed about Supermassive Games’ title The Quarry, and this comes attached with another story about how this information became public.
This information all comes from Time Extension, but this all stems from a report that should have been originally published by Fanbyte. At the time this story was to have been published, in 2022, the gaming website Fanbyte shut down, and the report would have had to have been pitched elsewhere.
The Fanbyte story was going to be about mismanagement at Supermassive games at the time they were working on the critically acclaimed The Dark Pictures Anthology. The writer involved eventually chose not to publish the story, seeing a change in Supermassive’s ownership, and subsequent changes in the studio itself.
However, when he got back to Supermassive employees, they had a different story to share. Six different employees claimed that The Quarry was originally a pitch for Until Dawn 2, the sequel to Supermassive’s horror hit with Sony. Oddly enough, there are two conflicting accounts of what happened. We decided it was best to share both of them.
Employee A said this:
“The Quarry team was originally Until Dawn 2 working with Sony. And Sony basically paid for them to be making this for them as a prototype. Then once the prototype was done, Supermassive turned around and said, ‘We’re going to shop this around and see if anyone else wants it”, which was kind of the final nail in the coffin of any relationship with Sony. They ended up getting picked up by Google who funded it for years.”
Employee B said this:
“The Quarry started as a pitch for Until Dawn, but they didn’t have the license. They burnt their bridges with Sony by releasing Dark Pictures on multiple platforms. As far as I’m aware someone else has that license now.”
Supermassive fans have long suspected this connection, so it may be gratifying to learn that it really did exist after all. Unfortunately, it’s unlikely that Supermassive will be involved with Until Dawn or Sony again. As Time Extension also noted, Supermassive made no comment about the Until Dawn rerelease to PC and PlayStation 5, or the announced movie spin-off.
Still, one can’t say either party is in a bad place today, as Supermassive has made their best work with The Dark Pictures Anthology. Whatever Sony does with the Until Dawn franchise now won’t take away from the fact that Supermassive was the developer who made it what it is today.
