Retro Replay Review

Gameplay

The first hour of Cabela’s Adventure Camp works best when you treat it as a motion-game sampler rather than wait for it to become a traditional Cabela’s hunt. You pick from six camp attendees, adjust hair and clothing colors, and jump into outdoor events built for short, competitive turns. That lower-stakes direction is a welcome change from the brand’s usual guns-and-dangerous-animals image: the archery targets are cardboard animals or plain bullseyes, and the focus stays on camp-sports silliness.

There is enough variety to make a multiplayer session worth trying. Kayaking, bicycling, skeet shooting, and archery cover the straightforward sporting side, while the oddball games give the collection more character. Bear-Hunter-Ninja turns rock-paper-scissors into a posed contest, and the Whack-a-Mole/Simon hybrid asks you to remember patterns as well as react. Most events also offer at least two variants, commonly through different courses or challenge sets, so a favorite activity is not exhausted after one pass.

The party-game structure is where the game has the most fuel. Two to four people can join most of the events, and coins, emblems, big gems, and recorded stats offer a simple reason to replay rounds. Solo play can still work as score chasing, but the basic activities have limited room to grow once you have seen their variations. Greg, the camp nuisance blamed for problems such as boulders in a kayaking river, adds a bit of comic aggravation without becoming an active rival.

Graphics

The game centers its camp around six child or young-teen characters whose hair and clothing colors you can change. The clearest visual joke comes in the hunting-adjacent events: deer and other animals appear as cardboard targets rather than living quarry, which suits the safer, more playful camp theme.

Story

There is only the thinnest thread of story here, and that is appropriate for a collection meant to get you from one event to another. The cast are kids attending a Cabela’s-themed camp, not heroes on an adventure with a plot to untangle. You should expect a framing device, not a narrative campaign.

Greg is the closest thing the game has to an antagonist. He is blamed when an event gets an unusual obstacle, including the boulders dropped into the kayaking route, giving the activities a small dose of playground mischief. Since he does not actively participate in the gameplay, he functions more as an excuse for a complication than as a character you meaningfully confront.

That light touch fits the tone. Adventure Camp is more interested in putting a bow, bike, kayak, or goofy hand pose in front of you than in asking you to follow camp drama. If you want story progression or a real sense of place, this will feel empty; if you just need a cheerful reason for the next contest, it does the job.

Overall Experience

Cabela’s Adventure Camp is an unconventional licensed game, and its willingness to be a family-friendly motion party collection is its strongest quality. It does not lean on the usual hunting fantasy; instead, it turns the brand into a camp activity day with competitive rounds. That makes it easier to recommend to a mixed-age group than its name might suggest.

Its payoff depends heavily on who is in the room. With two to four people passing through events, comparing scores, and laughing at the deliberately strange Bear-Hunter-Ninja poses, the broad mix can carry an evening. The collectible points and multiple variants help, but they are seasoning rather than deep progression.

Go in for quick multiplayer competitions and a deliberately goofy outdoor theme, and Adventure Camp has a reasonable niche. Go in hoping for the depth of a dedicated sports game, a substantial hunting game, or a story-led adventure, and it will run out of surprises quickly. It is a modest party-game detour that earns its keep only when you have company.

Retro Replay Score

5.5/10