Summary
The SCP Foundation (Secure Contain Protect) has been one of the most popular collaborative writing wikis since its creation in 2007. SCP is afictional secret governmentcollation responsible for maintaining, protecting, and safeguarding supernatural/paranormal entities. The number of talented authors, writers, and creators who add their own unique “SCPs” to the universe continues to grow with each passing day.
While SCP might’ve started as a simple wiki, it has evolved across other entertainment mediums. There have been SCP-based movies, comics, books,and, of course, video games. Even though most SCP-inspired games are hardly AAA-level productions, even with a smaller team on a smaller budget, many SCP-inspired titles are well worth playing.
8SCP: Ground Zero
Free To Play On Steam
Several different types of individuals form the foundation of the SCP organization. From scientists to guards, test subjects, and even cleaners, SCP offers a wide range of employment opportunities and gives writers a lot of different POVs they can use to tell stories.
SCP: Ground Zero puts you in the shoes of one of the organization’s elite agents and tasks you with retrieving an artifact from a secret underground laboratory. Unfortunately for you, this lab is filled with dangerous entities who would love nothing more than to put you six feet under.
7SCP: Operation Descent
One of the unique elements of the SCP Foundation is that its host of supernatural entities isn’t just limited to ghosts, aliens, and people. Sometimes, SCPs can be locations, buildings, or even mundane objects. Enter SCP-087, an ominous and endless staircase.
SCP: Operation Descent sees you dawn the orange jumpsuit of one of SCP’s expendable D-personal. Your mission is to descend SCP-087 and retrieve an object a previous D-Personal left behind. Sadly for you, much like your predecessor, there’s no guarantee you’ll come away alive.
6SCP-3008
Often, the most memorable SCPs are the most unorthodox ones. While we all love ghosts and ghouls, the more untraditional and bizarre SCPs stick in audiences' minds for much longer. Perhaps few SCPs are as widespread and distinctive as SCP-3008, a.k.a. The Endless Ikea.
Thamumiel Games takes the iconic SCP and allows you to explore its eerie halls and rooms. The game sticks you right in the bowels of the haunting Ikea as you desperately search for escape while avoiding the Ikea’s bloodthirsty and faceless staff.
5SCP: Secret Laboratory
Because most SCP video games are made by small teams or even one person, a majority of SCP titles are single-player affairs. However, those limitations have stopped a select few talented game designers from attempting to develop a multiplayer game in the rich SCP universe.
The online multiplayer title SCP: Secret Laboratory takes place in the infamous Site-2 and has players assume the roles of different SCP personnel and entities during a chaotic containment breach. If you’re looking for the perfect SCP experience to enjoy with friends, look no further.
4SCP022
Many SCP games released over the years have typically had you play as one of the SCP’s many disposable prisoners. When you’re not role-playing as a doomed test subject, the next likely possibility is for you to assume the position of an SCP soldier or scientist.
SCP022 takes the heretical approach and has you bear control of the titular entity. SCP-022 is a dreadful morgue where a drawer will periodically open, revealing a cadaver that will reanimate and attempt to exit the enclosure. SCP022 awakens you in the dilapidated morgue with only one mission: escape.
3SCP: 5K
$19.99 To Purchase Early Access On Steam
Every one of the SCP’s myriad of anomalous contained entities was created by gifted writers with a love forscience fiction,horror, and all things paranormal things. Even among the sea of quality SCPs, a select handful stand high above the rest as especially remarkable, well-written, and full of depth.
SCP-5000 by Tanhony is easily one of the best-written SCPs out there; it is the perfect basis for a great video game. SCP: 5K is a tactical co-op FPS that revolves around SCP-5000. If you’re unfamiliar with the game or its titular SCP, you’d be wise to check out both.
2SCP - The Sentient Box
$10.99 To Purchase On Steam
One of the most distinctive gaming genres isalternate reality games. ARGs utilize the real world as the platform to tell their narratives and employ multiplatform storytelling. There have been some truly amazing ARG games released over the years.
The crown of the most underrated ARG game perhaps belongs to SCP - The Sentient Box. The game combines the ARG formula of blending text, graphics, video, and puzzles and sets it in the SCP macrocosm. If you’re looking for a one-of-a-kind SCP title, SCP - The Sentient Box will scratch that itch.
1SCP: Secret Files
$14.99 To Purchase On Steam
Much like the games they are based on, each SCP will have its own individual fanbase and audience. The acme of “Best SCP Video Game” has quite the debate around it, with many offering various schools of thought on determining which is the magnum opus.
Of all the SCP titles, SCP: Secret Files is generally regarded as the finest SCP game. Developed by GameZoo Studio, SCP: Secret Files has you play several different SCP case files, each painstakingly crafted and masterfully polished with abundant admiration for the SCP universe.
