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SCP: Control Error

30 May 2025E4

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About

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.

Ways to play

Modes

Single player

Perspective

First person

Languages (24)

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Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
English (UK)
Finnish
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Russian
Spanish (Spain)
Swedish
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Vietnamese

Also known as

SCP Control Error.exeWindows Executable

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Facts

Developer

Chieftain Artworks

Publisher

Goonswarm Games

Released

30 May 2025

Platforms

PCLinuxWindowsNintendoSwitch

Age ratings

PEGI7ESRBE

Standing

Top 21% by 24hr peak players

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Tags

1st-personPuzzle elementsDirect controlHorror