SCP: Control Error

SCP: Control Error

Chieftain Artworks · 2025 · Simulation, Psychological Horror, 1980s, Exploration, Controller

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About SCP: Control Error

SCP: CONTROL ERROR is a short, first-person psychological horror game set in 1985

You are Barry Gittings - a man who volunteered for a classified experiment inside the Vortex Complex, a remote underground facility established during the Cold War.You don’t know what’s behind the next door.
You don’t know who’s watching.
You only know the doors opened, the voice welcomed you, and the test began.Explore sealed research chambers. Solve strange cognitive trials. Read internal reports and documents left behind by those who came before - or maybe didn’t leave at all.
No jump scares. No gunfights. Just you, the test, and something you can’t quite see.

Key Features

  • A short, tightly focused first-person horror experience (30–45 minutes)
  • Explore a Cold War-era research facility with a dark secret
  • Solve immersive environmental puzzles and cognitive trials
  • You’re not told what’s happening - only shown what was recorded.
The Game was created by Chieftain Artworks - a mysterious solo developer who remains in hiding. Only one thing we know - he is a part of the SCP community.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Jun 8, 2025
The trailer shows you just about the entire game. $2.54 is too much for this experience I believe. if youre curious what scp this game is about spoiler is below. it runs 1080p with native xbox controller support on steam deck. Was not too fun to play. spoiler: they make their own scp VX-161. its a gas that you walk through that ages you and makes you weaker. (Game mechanics like run and crouch are limited for rest of game.)
19 found this helpful
Not recommended Jun 13, 2025
The concept sounds promising, but the execution falls short. The puzzles are simple, yet often confusing. For instance, there’s a color-based puzzle where the colors are mislabeled. Or another “spot the differences” puzzle where the differences only appear after a while. Overall, I’d describe it as a simplistic yet confusing experience. I don’t enjoy giving negative reviews, especially knowing how much effort likely went into creating this game. However, I also wouldn’t want others to go through the same frustrating experience I had. Hopefully, the next project will turn out better.
9 found this helpful
Not recommended Jul 5, 2025
Kinda feels like somebodies homework that they put off till the last minute Probably not worth spending money on. hope keep trying to make games though
6 found this helpful
Not recommended Mar 3, 2026
What an awful piece of ♥♥♥♥, I'd rather have each toenail ripped off slowly than play this awful game again.
Recommended Jul 15, 2025
It's short. In the beginning I did not know what to do, because everything looked too easy. So I did EVERYTHING. Wasn't much possible to do. Then I found out, yes, it really IS that easy. Beside the comparing puzzle. I still have absolutely no clue, what I have done to "solve" it. ...two times. But as long as I finished the experiment it's fine. Not many people could finish it (according to the Op). But maybe it would be a good idea to fix the gap in the floor, soon? ;) Unluckily I can't tell anything about that "the community decides"-thing, since I don't have discord, x, insta, or whatever spyware. I dunno if it is worth 3 euros. But for 1,50 in sale.... yahh why not?! It has SCP in its name and the "ingame infos" are nice to read.. :)
Recommended Jul 3, 2025
Great atmospheric puzzle game that will keep your brain in tonus. Great choice who likes to find not linear solutions and who wants to be pleasantly surprised by final twist.

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