What would the ideal summer camp video game be like?

polygon.com:

For all of its impact on movies, TV, and books, the American sleep-away camp has made an exceedingly miniscule dent on the digital worlds of video games.

The original Psychonauts placed its government training facility at Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp, and 2017’s Friday the 13th the Gamebrought us back to the iconic Camp Crystal Lake. Supermassive Games is also fresh off its newest release, The Quarry, which pits nine camp counselors in a fight for their lives against supernatural forces. But these games are anomalies in the grand scheme of things. Movies like Meatballs, Heavyweights, Addams Family Values, and Wet Hot American Summer established summer camp films as a pop culture force, and TV shows like Camp Lazlo and American Horror Story: 1984 followed suit. Video games have yet to treat summer camps like the mainstream genre that they are.

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But that won’t stop us from dreaming. Nor, evidently, has it stopped developers from doing the same. We reached out to six studios to ask what their ideal summer camp game would look like, regardless of budget or timeline, and their responses were as varied as the games they’ve actually made.

Now, our conscience is clear, and the onus is squarely on publishers to give these guaranteed classics the time of day.

Being British, our idea of an American-style summer camp comes mainly from films, and the one that sticks in our minds is Camp Chippewa from Addams Family Values! We also really enjoyed the atmosphere and “out and about in nature with a map” gameplay of Firewatch, and would love to make an