Dive into the chilling world of Camp Sunshine, a nostalgic homage to 16-bit horror games from Fossil Games and Hound Picked Games. Join Jez as he awakens one eerie night at Camp Sunshine, unraveling the dark mysteries that lurk in the shadows. Check out our Camp Sunshine review for more!
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Camp Sunshine is a 16-bit blood-soaked Horror RPG that pits you as Jez, who is dropped off at Summer Camp. He awakes in the middle of the night to discover blood everywhere, a rampaging killer on the loose dressed in a mascot costume and himself involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse! It’s up to you to piece together the puzzle, and relive the past of the Summer Camp Slasher in order to put a stop to this night of terror.
Camp Sunshine is a nostalgic homage to 16-bit horror games from Fossil Games and Hound Picked Games on PlayStation 5. As summer kicks off, Jez’s parents drop him off at Camp Sunshine for a week of fun. But on the first night, a mysterious sound shatters the calm, and he quickly realizes that something is very wrong. Determined to uncover the truth, Jez embarks on a chilling investigation to try and survive the night.
While this game doesn’t have jump scares per se, there are frequent spine-chilling moments. The main danger of this game is the Sunshine Bear, a creepy-looking bear costume thing that reminded me of the animatronics from Five Night at Freddy’s. Your scare mileage may vary with this one. Personally, my tolerance for horror games is pretty low, so I ended up chickening out and had to play it during the daylight hours. Yes, really.
To help you make your way around Sunshine Camp, you’ll have a flashlight that drains its batteries faster than you’d hoped for, and you’re likely to make progress with said flashlight closed. Also, the Sunshine Bear is attracted to light, so it’s in your best interest to use your flashlight only when it’s completely necessary!
Mechanically, the game didn’t give me much to go on when I started. Your main objective is to find help, but this soon changes to some quests with the survivors around the camp. You’ll have to explore each location individually to find survivors, and solving their problems will earn you a diary page that contains the game’s background story. One thing I liked is that the game is non-linear, and you can help each of the survivors in any order you like. Most of the things the survivors ask you to do are basic fetch quests around the camp. There are also a couple of puzzles you have to solve, namely one involving a boiler room, which was quite annoying.
Camp Sunshine includes a pretty short trophy list containing only 11 Gold trophies… and a Platinum! The requirements are straightforward as you’re basically required to find all ten Diary Pages, as well as complete the objective for a very random trophy called “I Want To Believe,” which asks you to close all the toilet seats in the camp’s restrooms. If you need help with the trophies, check this Camp Sunshine Trophy Guide. You’ll likely achieve the Platinum within 2 hours at most.
If you like retro-looking horror games, then Camp Sunshine might be for you. It doesn’t have jump scares but it does feature frequent spine-chilling moments. I thought that this was a fun game, and at $6.99, you’ll get to download both the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 versions of the game at no extra cost.
Disclaimer
This Camp Sunshine review is based on a PlayStation copy provided by Hound Picked Games.
