Slayaway Camp

Slayaway Camp is a 2016 horror-themed puzzle video game developed and published by Blue Wizard Digital. Using the setting of 1980s slasher films, it has players controlling a killer, navigating two-dimensional grids of obstacles to reach and kill their victims. Each level is a puzzle in the tradition of block-pushing puzzle games established by Sokoban. Developer Blue Wizard Digital, led by Popcap Games co-founder Jason Kapalka, sought to develop such a puzzle game but without the typical theming, which they deemed uninteresting, and described the final product as "for people who hate puzzle games". Slayaway Camp was first released for browsers on 29 August 2016, then for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation Vita over the next three years. It received generally favorable reviews, with reviewers praising the puzzle design, art style, and the juxtaposition of the two, with some expressing more negative feedback about the repetitiveness of the levels and issues with the controls. The console release led to the development of Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle (2018). A sequel, Slayaway Camp II, was released in 2024.