Camping is a horror story game on Roblox made by SamsonXVI. It is the first game of the Camping series to be released, and the third one in the chronological story. The game was released to the public on September 3, 2018. It is supposedly a remake of another game SamsonXVI made, but that game is no longer publicly available.
Synopsis[]
A group of people (the players) go camping to an area named Specky Woods, and have to survive a monster for three days and nights. Players have to navigate through various dangerous scenarios to reach the end of the game without dying (or instead, buying revives).
Gameplay[]
Day 1[]
After beginning the game, 12 players spawn within Specky Woods. The narrator will eventually tell the players to explore the forest after about 15 seconds. During this time period, several survival items (Medkits, Umbrellas, Smores, Lucky Coins, Flashlights) are randomly generated and scattered throughout the map. There is also a frog (Affectionately named "Todd" by the community) that you can hold and play with, and can sometimes be thrown onto another player's head. It is advised to use this time to memorize the map layout, as it will come in handy later. Players on PC could "dance clip" through the very thin barrier wall at the start of the game, to get a head-start on grabbing items.
Night 1[]
The screen will fade back in, and will teleport all players to the campsite (even some players within the campsite will be teleported). The narrator will tell you to "... sit by the fire and tell spooky stories and relax". Shortly after, a black figure with a huge bloody grin will appear over the fire, and the narrator will instruct you to run. Players must run away from the figure, ideally to a cave. If a player is too slow or does not run, they will abruptly stop moving while the black figure spawns behind them and kills them.
Once this sequence is over, players will have time to breathe as the narrator asks what that was. However it will soon begin to rain, and players must take shelter in the cave or into tents to avoid taking damage. As the night ends, players will hear an animal being killed somewhere in the forest, which dies with a faint bleat. The black figure may also appear at the cave entrance/blue tent window temporarily accompanied with a flash of lightning.
Day 2[]
The day will start with all players back at the campsite, to find that the red tent has collapsed. The narrator explains that because all players can't fit in the blue tent, players must sleep in the cave tonight. A dead deer, two park rangers and a tray of bear traps will be spawned near the two stone pillars. They inform you that they believe a bear is killing deer in the park and that they will have bear traps laid out by nightfall. There is no significant threat or activity for the rest of the day, and this interaction with the two park rangers can be skipped. However, it is advised that you memorize the route from the cave to the picnic basket for the next night.
Night 2[]
The players will go inside the cave and will be unable to leave it. The narrator will then indicate that it is a stormy night. After 15 seconds, the narrator will then state that the picnic basket was forgotten at the campsite and they must send a player or a group of players to retrieve it. The player must be cautious of the bear traps that are scattered around the map. Stepping on them will deal great damage and will slow down the player. When the picnic basket is stepped on, a windows notification sound can be heard. While returning from the camp, if the player passes the well they will see the monster temporarily appear within it. The monster is benign and will almost instantly disappear. When the player who retrieves the basket gets back, everyone is given a sandwich to eat. However, after about one minute, it is announced that one sandwich has been poisoned. The game will then randomly select a player to poison. The poisoned player will die unless they are healed by another player with a medkit, and the poisoned player has at least around half health remaining.
After the poisoned player have either died or been saved, the cave entrance collapses and players will be unable to leave the cave. The characters are instructed by the narrator to find another exit. There are loose rocks in the back, creating a passageway leading to two slides. One slide has spikes at the bottom that damage any player that touches them, so if they are damaged enough by rain they can die. Use the lucky coin if owned, to have a high chance of being teleported to the correct slide.
Once you reach the bottom, you go through another tunnel. There are two ways on how this will go down:
- The first person inside sees the monster momentarily, then it disappears. The player will then be led down a short corridor to a lowered room, with a single door. There is a closed stone door in front. Once all the players reach the bottom, the door opens, revealing either a huge chamber with platforms to jump on (an obby) or a maze. If it is the chamber with platforms, there will be a flood to escape from, and players must climb to reach the end. If it is the maze, there are bears players must evade, to eventually find an exit. Both events end with the players reaching a very bright opening, leading supposedly outside (but players cannot leave until all living players arrive at the exit).
- If you have luck on your side, the monster does not make an appearance in the tunnel. You reach the end only to find a stone wall, then later get teleported out into the daytime.
Tips:[]
- A player could use an Umbrella or Medkit to sustain health points during or after getting the basket.
- Players can be poisoned regardless of eating a sandwich or not after receiving it (because the "nom nom nom" sound effect is played when receiving the sandwich, it's implied that all players already took a bite of the sandwich).
- An easy way to escape the bears would be to go right directly after the first bear passes. From then, you just keep turning left and right until you reach the ladder. By doing this, you will take minimal, possibly zero damage.
Day 3[]
The players will spawn at the camp and the narrator will indicate that rescue will arrive the following morning and the player(s) must survive one more day. Inside the blue tent is blood, and the message "I'M STILL ALIVE" written on the wall. There are also bloody footprints leading to a bear trap with a black limb stuck in it. After a minute it will become nightfall. This is also one of two days where you can do nothing, although this is not advised.
Tips[]
This day is very short, so get ready for the night and to find the player. Watch out for the bear traps, as they are still there.
Night 3[]
The player(s) will spawn in the camp. However, if a player presses the I'M STILL ALIVE button, a scream will be heard in this phase. If there are multiple players, a player will be kidnapped (if there is one player left, it will skip the kidnapping event entirely). The kidnapped player will see a black screen with the image of the monster in the center and will then be chained to a random tree on the map, while other players only see a black screen. Once at the destination, the captured player will have limited movement space and will be unable to walk more than a few steps. If the player is directly approached by another player, he/she will be automatically freed. After 30 seconds, it will start to rain again, forcing players to seek shelter again. If the player isn't found, they will perish. After another 30 seconds, the rain will stop and the narrator will prompt the player to flee to higher ground as a mysterious darkness sweeps through the forest. When the player(s) have reached the pillar, based on how many players are left, one of the several endings will occur.
Tips[]
- If you are the person captured, it would be a good idea to spam the chat. This will cause your text to appear above your head in white, increasing player visibility in the dark, maybe even showing other players to your position.
- It will start raining if you don't get released. Use an umbrella if you are searching for the player for prolonged periods of time as a precaution.
- The best way to search for a captured player is to start at the corner of the camp with the red tent, and head to the corner in that direction. The leftmost spot is in that corner, then continue clockwise until the player is found, well past the shack. The corner with the cave, and the wall with the pond will never have a captured player.
Endings[]
A more detailed article on the endings of Camping is found here.
If you are with multiple people, you will climb to the top of the pillar as the fog arises. Soon it will stop and the monster will appear and walk over the plank to you. But, the sun will rise and he will fall because he cannot stay in the sun. We tell him that this is what he gets for trying to kill and poison us, and for kidnapping one of us. He cries that they do not understand. He then explains that when the incident occurred, he didn’t want another murder happening at Specky Woods. As a result, he went crazy to stop the killer. Then, in a cutscene, a backpack with the person with a randomly chosen username is shown. Shortly afterward, rat poison is shown in it. The person who owned the backpack then proceeds to kill everyone else in the group without warning, ending the game.
If you are alone, when you get to the top of the pillars the monster will just come and kill you. This is because you were the murderer with the poison.
For the secret ending, you have to find the Lucky Coin and drop it in the well. A cutscene will play, showing a young boy in the shed. He then turns backward, showing his face and then jumpscares the player. This implies that the black figure was actually the youngest son back in the last camping trip when Zach Nolan kills the family and now is making sure something like that doesn't happen again. This is confirmed in Camping 2 when in the good ending Zach Nolan shows himself and attempts to kill the surviving group, then gets surprised when the black figure shows up. Zach exclaims, "NOOO! The son!!!" and then gets killed by the youngest son of that family. (This part is kind of ironic, considering the original monster screams, "NO!! THE SUN!!” in the ending in which the player is revealed as the murderer.)
Trivia[]
- After the game's release, the Camping trend caught on when many developers rushed to make spin offs in other locations.
- If you looked at a certain part of the map behind a wall, then you could see an unused location that SamsonXVI forgot to delete. But it is now fixed, so you can't look at that place again.
- The game itself is actually a remake of an older game of SamsonXVI called “Camping with Friends!”. SamsonXVI would invite random players to his camping trip, and begin the game. The people would role play and tell stories by the campfire until SamsonXVI scares them with a prank, forming a story within the game; This would later become the inspiration for Camping.
- The music that used to play in the lobby and during the daytime was "Let's Meet in the Mysterious Forest" (the Dimble Woods theme) from Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story.
- This has been replaced with the song "Basic" (by Philippe Guez) due to the Roblox audio update.
- The Son's face used from an SCP called, SCP-087-B.
- However, the face has been replaced with a new design. You can still find the original face in the secret ending of Camping 2.
- The sound the deer makes when dying is from the popular game Minecraft, with it being a sheep sound.
- For the Solo ending, you will not get the badge, and be immediately sent back to the lobby.
- The Solo Ending is also the only ending that the murderer would be killed.
- Inside the wooden shack seen in the secret ending, there is a hammer used to nail the planks too the door and tally marks over the door showing how long the son was in there.
- In some games there is a rare Easter Egg where in the pond a moto-moto head appears(Unfortunately, This has been removed from the game.)
- Another rare Easter Egg is the Roblox twitter bird sitting on the sign that points towards landmarks.
Game link[]
| Camping, The First Game |
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| Camping | Daniel | Steve | Sandwich | Lucky Coin | The Son |