SCP: Secret Laboratory

SCP: Secret Laboratory

Northwood Studios · 2017

Multiplayer chaos that creates stories you retell

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MultiplayerCo-opFirst person
How you play it

Online co-op

Online co-op

The WhatsNext verdict

For Fans of asymmetric multiplayer horror, proximity-chat social games, and emergent sandbox chaos.: Every round creates wildly unpredictable situations where proximity voice chat, shifting alliances, and sudden anomaly encounters turn desperate survival into memorable, hilarious anecdotes. Tradeoff: The experience is heavily dependent on server culture and community behavior, with noticeable mechanical jank and long spectator downtime after early deaths.

What it does best

  • Multiplayer chaos that creates stories you retell

  • A social horror game built for beautiful disorder

  • Teamwork turns survival into a desperate group effort

  • A genuinely tense containment-breach atmosphere

What might put you off

  • Unforgiving onboarding and opaque rules

  • Jank, balance issues, and server-dependent quality

The setup

What you are walking into

Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.

Where it lives

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Genre

ShooterRole-playing (RPG)StrategyIndie

Vibe

ActionHorror
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