An SCP horror game you can experience in VR

SCP: Blackout is a tense role-playing video game wherein you must escape a facility full of strange and deadly creatures. Developed by Mahelyk, this 3D indie survival horror game is a fanmade game for the popular SCP Foundation project and features numerous original SCPs made for it.

Similar to SCP – Containment Breach, SCP: Blackout lets you play as a D-Class personnel who has no access to any powerful weapons or clearance to the different parts of the facility. It features two game modes: Story Mode and Survival Mode—and you can either play them on PC or through a VR headset. 

Is SCP: Blackout only VR?

The SCP Foundation is an online community-based collaborative-fiction project that features the documented events and secret files of a fictional secret organization with the same name. This organization is tasked with locating and containing anomalous individuals, entities, locations, objects, and phenomena called “SCPs.” Thanks to its scientific and academic writing style, the SCP Foundation website has become popular with horror and sci-fi fans.

One of its fan games is SCP: Blackout and it puts you in the shoes of a disposable D-Class personnel who’s newly transferred to Site-50. Unfortunately, you came at a bad time as just like in SCP – Containment Breach, the SCPs—which are originally-made SCPs here—break out and now everyone must fend for themselves to survive. Armed with only a flashlight that can protect you, you must find the exit quickly. 

The main goal is the same here: find keycards to access the other levels of the facility. In Story Mode, you can make choices that will affect the ending. Meanwhile, in Survival Mode, you simply must stay alive for as long as you can. This game can be played on both desktop and VR but take note that it’s quite laggy and can even freeze or crash as you play.

Needs a lot of tweaking

All in all, SCP: Blackout is another SCP game you can try out if you’d like to experience the SCP in VR. While the featured SCPs here aren’t found on the website, the entire premise is still haunting and challenging enough to make the game stand on its own. However, you should expect that the game can freeze and crash at times—even on PC—due to unstable performance.