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The
Camping series live up their monikers as horror games, so they run unleaded on the nightmare fuel.
General
Camping
- The first night has the game tell you to say a story to the other campers, when suddenly a dark◊ Humanoid Abomination with a Nightmare Face pops up above the fire, and the game tells you to run.
- The next morning, park rangers are seen setting bear traps near the◊ carcass of a bloodied deer, with them informing you to stay away from areas outside the Bear Trap to avoid getting hurt.
- The morning after the cave sequence, you and the surviving players return to the camp to see a leg attached to a bear trap with blood spewing out of it, and a trail of blood leading to one of your tents, with the message "I'M STILL ALIVE"◊ written on the wall.
- Then there's the ending, where the figure reappears with a missing leg, crawls over to you, and tells you that they were actually trying to protect you from a murderer. Cue "Psycho" Strings as a backpack opens with one of the player's name on it, rat poison inside, and said player is shown about to knife another player!
- Want some little Backstory Horror? You can find and read a poster which reveals a family of five who camped at Specky Woods disappeared and four were found murdered. If you throw the Lucky Coin into the well, a cutscene plays showing a boy sitting in the corner of the shack, when suddenly the Monster's face appears on the back of his head, implying the boy was the Sole Survivor of his murdered family and that he turned into the Monster.
Camping 2
- Early on in the game, Daniel, the park ranger, shows you around the camp, including the bathrooms. Suddenly the lights flicker, and the bloodied corpses of your fellow campers are briefly shown on the mirror.
- When Daniel and the campers find a gun, one user is given the option to kill Daniel or not. If they do, you'll see his body laying on the ground. One of the campers even feels unnerved about sleeping next to a dead body.
- The maze section, where if you don't escape on time, that creepy Murderer from earlier kills you with a knife. Thankfully the game allows you to revive for 20 Robux.
- The ending, depending on whether Daniel is killed or not:
- If Daniel is killed, the striped figure appears at the end of the cave, and the remaining campers realize that Daniel was not the Murderer. The figure is revealed to be Zach Nolan, who immediately runs towards you and kills you offscreen.
- The ending where Daniel was not killed is lighter in tone, but still disturbing. Daniel reveals that Specky Woods was haunted by Zach, who killed a family of 5. Right as he runs over to kill Daniel and the campers, the dark figure from the first game appears, and reveals himself to be the Son from the family. He decapitates Zach (Bloody Horror included), and disappears.