Decamped

Decamped is an American survival horror indie game, being created, developed, and published by Matthew Johnson on December 25th, 2020.

Synopsis
Set in the summer of 2020, in the town of Goldcrest, there were various sightings of terrifying creatures alongside the increase of citizens mysteriously disappearing, resulting in a curfew. However, a teen named Jerold Mikes along with a few of his friends head out to investigate the creatures, yet they end up discovering secrets related to the creatures.

Gameplay
The game has an 8-bit style into it as the player controls Jerold Mikes and lets him interact with various people and objects. For the dialogue within the game, dialogue boxes are used rather than voice actors. The game is chronological as each part of the game takes place one day after another.

(WIP)

Main

 * Jerold Mikes - a mature yet curious teenager who has been wondering about the sightings of the experiments for a long time.

Supporting

 * Scotty - a loyal beagle who is Jerold's pet as he often follows him around.
 * Devin Crook - a studious teenager who is Jerold's best friend and has been studying sightings of mysterious creatures, including the experiments.
 * Tony Stenson - a slightly snarky African-American teenager who is Jerold's other best friend.
 * Kaitlyn Willingham - an easily bored and stressed teenage girl who often texts on her phone.
 * Sophie Willingham - a shy little girl who is Kaitlyn's sister as she's been forced to come with her since she is not allowed to leave Sophie alone whenever their parents are out.
 * Christopher and Louise Mikes - Jerold's caring parents who are often busy doing work.
 * Principal Duncan Hall - a strict principal of Goldcrest High School who wanted to make sure all of his students, teachers, and staff stay safe as he has been traumatized by the Graduation Incident of 2002.
 * Claire Allison - a shy woman who is one of Jerold's neighbors and has been through traumatizing incidents related to the experiments such as losing her father and one of his horses to the Canine when she was just a little girl and her best friend to the Cephalopod a year later.
 * Sheriff Whitney Nickel - a serious African-American woman who is the chief of the police in Goldcrest who is very stern yet cares for others' safety, as she has been like that ever since her best friend got mauled by the Canine back in 1993.
 * Marie Johnson - Whitney Nickel's best friend who got killed by the Canine.
 * T.J. Watterson - a chill African-American man who works as a cashier at a convenience store. He ends up getting killed by The Cephalopod while trying to escape from the creatures.
 * Warren Mikes - Jerold's grandfather who worked with Nathan Ackroyd until he died during the Excess Labs explosion.
 * Dr. Nathan Ackroyd - an intelligent scientist who was the CEO of Excess Labs, which was the laboratory the experiments were created in until he died when Excess Labs exploded back in 1989.

Antagonists

 * Kevin Brees - an insane man who had an unhealthy obsession with scientific experiments and was the person who caused Excess Labs to burn and explode, as well as letting the experiments escape. He was eventually caught in 1993, only to escape in 2020 around the same time sightings of the experiments began to surge.
 * Mayor Wilson Deckard - the corrupt mayor of Goldcrest who attempted to keep the existence of the experiments a secret to the public eye.

Experiments

 * RH-1980/The Canine - a ferocious bipedal canine creature who was the first creation created in Excess Labs as well as the first one out of the experiments sighted.
 * ST-1050/The Cephalopod - a terrifying oversized octopus creature who has been seen roaming around both land and in water, as it is able to go through small spaces a creature big as it cannot go through.
 * MG-0180/The Child - a sinister creature resembling a little girl who is capable of capturing unsuspecting victims and doing rather horrifying things to them, often leaving their dead bodies before walking away.
 * EC-3180/The Glob - a deformed overweight humanoid creature who gets really hungry as it can also vomit out a strange liquid that would not only give its victim an awful smell, but can also burn their skin as well.
 * YW-3190/The Wack - a mysterious and "wacky" shapeshifting creature who can turn into various living organisms for menacing purposes.
 * BU-8111/The Fairy - a creepy-looking toddler-sized humanoid creature with wings who is the only experiment that can fly and tends to attack unsuspecting victims from above.
 * JM-0301/The Carnivore - a hostile wolf-bear-cougar hybrid creature who will attack any living organism it sees and is rather very strong.
 * IW-4270/The Imp - a scary imp-like creature who often flies around at night to stalk people, as well as attempting to break into places and attacking people whenever it has the chance.

Spin-off
See Kill Stream.

Graphic novel series
See Decamped: The Goldcrest Cases.

Tropes
See Decamped/Tropes.