SCP - Containment Breach

Exploring the locked down facility is a terrifying and utterly nerve-wracking experience: Secure, Contain, Protect...

Indie Survival Game

Fans of indie survival games like Five Nights at Freddy’s should do themselves a favour and check out SCP – Containment Breach, a slick and enjoyable addition to the genre which is just bursting with fresh ideas, not to mention plenty of scares that will have you hiding behind the sofa in panic.

SCP Secret Organization

As with many of the best ideas, the concept behind Containment Breach is fairly simple and finds players delving into the mysterious world of the SCP Foundation. This secret organization has a particular interest in all things arcane and which have the potential to threaten the world, and have now amassed an impressive collection of weird but deadly objects.

Test Went A Bit Wrong

The player controls a hapless individual charged with conducting tests on one of these objects, a vicious statue which has the ability to move when not being observed (shades of Doctor Who?) but during the test, it all goes a bit wrong. The power fails, allowing the statue to escape, along with a number of other objects and it now falls to you to guide the unwilling hero around the facility, with the simple aim of survival. If you’re feeling particularly bold, you can try to recapture the statue but with all the nightmare creatures running around, including a plague doctor that can kill you with one touch and a homicidal beast whose only desire is to beat you into a bloody paste, even surviving is a big challenge and it takes a bold player indeed to attempt a recapture.

Low Budget Game With Superb Audio

Containment Breach is clearly a low budget game, having been made in the Blitz 3D Engine and while it is undoubtedly lacking in the visuals department, with weak textures, a lack of detail and a fairly cheap looking monster, it more than makes up for any graphical shortcomings with its gameplay. Exploring the locked down facility is a terrifying and utterly nerve-wracking experience, thanks in no small part to the superb audio, which works perfectly in tandem with the scares, building and enhancing the tension so that you will literally jump out of your seat with alarming frequency. Coupled to this are the creepy environments, which will have you peering reluctantly around the corner, desperately hoping that nothing lurks beyond, and the monsters themselves, which manage to overcome their low budget nature to become absolutely terrifying.

Instant survival horror classic

When you add in plenty of clever mechanics, such as the blinking system which requires you to keep an eye on the statue or allow it to get one step closer to pulling your intestines out through your nose, or the decontamination gas which pops up with unnerving regularity and which really piles on the pressure, you have all the makings of an instant survival horror classic. The impressive and fascinating history only adds to the appeal and provides plenty of future opportunities to explore and if the game can get more support, any shortcomings with the visuals can be fixed, thus opening it up to a wider audience and giving it the success it truly deserves.