5 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 7.1 hrs on record
Posted: 18 Jul, 2023 @ 9:17am

This game is an absolutely amazing experience for any SCP lovers, but also would be great as an introduction into the SCP universe. The entire playthrough took me about 7 hours, but I went very slow to enjoy it.

Positives:
- You have 5 different stories you play through, each for a specific SCP (and they all are very uniquely done, with different play and art styles) and additionally, they offer you a few SCPs to just read through.
- The selection of SCP is amazing. They are not the most widely known ones, so it's not boring if you have already played other SCP games. There is a variety of SCP types that lets you taste the vastness of SCP universe, which includes, but is not limited to just horror.
- The music is chef kiss. Epic, absolutely perfect to make the right atmosphere.
- I like that the majority of the achievements are doable with only minimal additional effort. They are not for hardcore players only.

Negatives are mostly smaller inconveniences that really should be fixable, but the devs have been kinda MIA lately:
- Keybindings are not changeable. Neither are keyboards. If you don't use QWERTZ/Y, you are gonna have an issue.
- The game is kinda dark in some of the stories. Not metaphorically (well, that too sometimes, but definitely not complaining about that). I had to push up the gamma setting + screen brightness to the max to be able to play SCP-239 and SCP-701. That unfortunately makes some other parts of the story too bright, so it really could use some balancing there.
- There was one point when my game started crashing during SCP-239 story. Not 100% certain about the cause, but the game may have considered my hardware to be too weak to handle it. So I advise a good graphics card.

Overall, I'd say it is definitely worth the money, it's an unforgettable, very atmospheric experience. I have originally seen this game's playthrough on youtube, which usually means I would not buy the game (since it is a story game, so there is not much difference between playing yourself and watching someone else). But this game was so great I felt like I wanted to see it again and also to pay the devs for letting me have such an amazing experience. Seems more than fair.
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