Secret Staycation is a Roblox experience created by ChocolateAnts on November 2, 2023. The premise of the game is that you play as Anthropomorphic Food who hang around inside a house while the landlord isn't around. The main goal is to collect all of the playable foods, though the game can also be used as a general hangout/roleplay place. There is also an additional Hide and Seek game mode, where you and other players participate in a food-themed hide and seek game. The players who don't get found will earn points, allowing them to obtain more foods.
What sets this apart from many scavenger hunt games is the physics. Normally, foods can only walk slowly ahead, so in order to move around more quickly, you can fling the food by pressing the space bar (which also doubles as the jump button), and the food may either roll around or move slightly depending on the kind. There are also different classes of foods, each with their own attributes. Due to this, getting certain foods may become easier or harder depending on which food you play as, or the physics may become a blessing and land you in certain places that would be harder to reach otherwise.
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This game provides examples of:
- Anthropomorphic Food: All the foods you play as have two legs and arms.
- Boss Corridor: There is a short hallway just before the boss fight with Miss Edamame. You have to use this corridor to your advantage, as her kids, which are used to "defeat" her, are there, and most of her attacks won't reach you inside of it if you were in the hall beforehand.
- Boss Room: You fight Miss Edamame in a round, arena-style room in between her room and a hallway.
- Character Class System: While not expicitly stated in-game, foods can be divided into roughly 3 classes: small foods, who move the fastest and jump the farthest but are the most lightweight, medium-sized foods, who jump and move at an average rate and can do specific actions such as entering Miss Edamame's lair, and large foods, who are the slowest and jump the lowest but are also the heaviest.
- Character Select Forcing: The game requires using different classes of foods to reach areas you normally wouldn't otherwise. Small foods can fit inside tiny areas the other foods can't fit in and can jump long and high, large foods are needed for more forceful activites like opening doors and hatches, and medium-sized foods are the only ones that can be flushed down the toilet and thus fight Miss Edamame. This is taken further with foods that can only be obtained by a character or two: Candy Cane and Christmas Egg are the only foods who can ride wires and rods like ziplines, which need to be crossed to reach Coconut.
- Difficulty Levels: Not for the game itself, but for Miss Edamame's boss battle. There's the normal difficulty where you fight her normally, but there's also a secret hard difficulty accessed by flinging a painting multiple times until it falls. The hard mode will increase her hit points from 3 to 5 (therefore giving more of her kids you need to use to "defeat" her), and her attack patterns will become longer and more dangerous. Beating her with this difficulty unlocks Fake Edamame.
- A Dog Named "Dog": The grand majority of the playable foods are named after what type of food they are.
- Fragile Speedster: Small foods move the quickest out of all the foods but also receive the most knockback due to their tiny sizes.
- Game-Breaking Bug: A since-patched bug would crash the game server, causing you to lose your data for foods you recently obtained.
- Gotta Catch 'Em All: The main goal of the game is to find and collect all of the foods hidden around the house.
- Knockback: Bumping into another food or flinging into a wall at high speeds will knock you back. In the case of foods, this will range from being pushed back slightly to being flung across the room!
- Macro Zone: Since you play as foods, the house is naturally gigantic.
- Mama Bear: If anything happens to Miss Edamame's children, she'll launch into a rage and attack whoever she believes is responsible for what happened.
- The Maze: A maze exists in a tiny mouse hole you can access with a tiny food. A rat is patrolling the area, and if it catches you, you'll be transported to the start.
- Mighty Glacier: Non-combat example: the larger foods are the slowest and can't jump high, but they are the heaviest, making them ideal to reach places or open areas that require a lot of force.
- No Plot? No Problem!: There isn't a given plot besides "what foods do when humans aren't around". All you do is find as many foods as you can and have fun!
- Ragdoll Physics: There is a "ragdoll mode" which allows your food to flop around like a ragdoll at the cost of you being unable to move.
- Secret Character: There are a number of characters that are not listed in the fridge and will only appear in the character selection menu once you obtain them. Most of these are event-exclusive foods, but a few of them will appear if you beat Miss Edamame a certain number of times and on hard mode.
- Tactical Suicide Boss: Miss Edamame's body slam will leave her dizzy for a while, and while you can't attack, you'll need to place one of her kids in front of her while she's using the attack, which will remove her hit points.
- Weaponized Headgear: Miss Edamame will sometimes send her hat flying towards you. The hat will chase you for a while, dealing damage if it touches you, and will eventually return to her.