Organization:SCP: Secret Laboratory
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| Developer(s) | Northwood Studios |
| Publisher(s) | Northwood Studios |
| Director(s) | Hubert Moszka |
| Engine | Unity |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
| Release | December 29, 2017 |
| Genre(s) | Multiplayer, horror, first-person shooter |
SCP: Secret Laboratory is a first-person multiplayer video game released on December 29, 2017. It is based on the single-player game SCP – Containment Breach and collaborative fiction from the SCP Foundation wiki. The game was released independently by Hubert Moszka, who now owns Northwood Studios, the main development team of the game.
Background
SCP: Secret Laboratory is based on the 2012 horror game SCP - Containment Breach, which in turn is based on the collaborative writing project of the SCP Foundation. The SCP Foundation is a fictional organisation that captures and studies entities and objects that violate natural law (called SCPs).
Building on the stories from the website, SCP: Secret Laboratory takes place following an extremely dangerous containment breach in a secretive underground facility named Site-02.
Description
In SCP: Secret Laboratory, competing factions are pitted against each other in team-based combat. The player's objective depends on their starting class and usually involves either escaping the facility with scavenged equipment, working to re-contain the various escaped SCPs, or capturing SCP items with the goal of weaponizing them, eliminating Foundation personnel in the process. Each faction wins the round by meeting a different set of conditions.
- Either faction wins if they are the last ones remaining and the escape role (ex. Class-D for the Chaos Insurgency) escaped.
- SCPs win if they are the last ones remaining and neither faction's escape role escaped.
- If either faction is the last one remaining (except SCPs), but the escape role didn't escape, then the result is a stalemate.
Many of the important areas of the facility, such as exits and armouries, require keycards to access. Some factions spawn with keycards, while others must scavenge the facility for them.
The facility is randomly generated based on a number of preset layouts and separated into four floors: Light Containment Zone, Heavy Containment Zone, Entrance Zone, and Surface Zone. After around 11 Minutes (The monitors and announcer say 15 minutes, but the timer is sped up until about 40 seconds remain on the clock), Light Containment Zone undergoes a "decontamination" process which fills the floor with highly corrosive gas, killing everyone and closing the floor.[1][2]
SCPs
SCPs are objects/entities which violate natural law, and are contained within the facility. There are 7 different SCPs that can be played as, each of which has their own unique abilities. In a given round, at least 1 playable SCP will spawn in. More than 1 playable SCP can spawn depending on the number of players. Aside from the playable SCPs, there are stationary and environmental objects contained throughout the facility such as SCP-914, a machine that allows players to upgrade their items and equipment.[1]
Voice Chat
The game features a proximity chat system which allows the various human classes to talk to each other across short distances, although Mobile Task Force Units are given a radio which allows them to communicate over longer distances. Spectators and SCPs are given their own private voice channels which will always work regardless of distance. 2 SCPs, SCP-939 and SCP-079, can use the proximity chat system to talk with nearby humans as well as in their exclusive voice channel.
Release
Development on Secret Laboratory began on March 1, 2017 by Hubert Moszka. The game was released to Steam on December 29, 2017.[3]
Reception
Kayla Fitzgerald, writing for Oxen Games, described Secret Laboratory as "the latest word in multiplayer action games."[2] She praised Secret Laboratory's gameplay, graphics, and sounds, but noted that the game suffered from issues with character balance, crashes, and difficulty connecting to servers.[2] Dean Clark, writing for Game Tyrant, described the game as fun, but noted that it was difficult to join servers and to aim weapons within the game.[1] Both reviewers described Secret Laboratory as having great potential once the various identified issues are resolved.[1][2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Clark, Dean (2017). SCP Secret Laboratory First Impression: Great Game, If You Can Get it Working. Game Tyrant. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Fitzgerald, Kayla. SCP: Secret Laboratory Review. Oxen Games. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
- ↑ "SCP: Secret Laboratory on Steam" (in en). https://store.steampowered.com/app/700330/SCP_Secret_Laboratory/.
External links
- https://scpslgame.com/ - The official site of the game.
- https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ - The SCP Foundation website, which the game is based on.
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