SCP: Blackout

Such a great game with a lot of potential. I'm sad it was abandoned, but at least the developer made it free so anyone can enjoy it.

기존의 SCP 게임들과 같은 진행방식이며 짧게 설명을 드리면 D클래스가 되어 카드를 찾고 카드레벨을 올려 잠긴 문들을 여는 방식의 게임입니다. 하지만 익숙하고 똑같은 데자뷰로 신선함이 떨어지며 게임 밝기가 굉장히 어두우며 손전등이 있어도 어두운 부분들이 많아 답답함이 생깁니다. 그리고 SCP들의 억까들이 많아서 벗어나기도 힘들고 진통제도 많이 나오지 않아 계속 죽음으로 몰고 갑니다. 클리어 하기 위해서는 많은 시간과 노력이 필요할 것으로 보이는데... 밸런스 붕괴를 뚫을수가 있을지... [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45555420-%25EB%258D%2594%25ED%258E%2598%25EC%259D%25B4%25ED%258D%25BC%25EC%2599%2580-%25EA%25B2%258C%25EC%259E%2584%25ED%2595%2598%25EA%25B8%25B0/]Steam Curator ThePaper <--큐레이터 주소[/url]

"SCP: Blackout" is a bit of creative bankruptcy as the developer, unable to come up with their own ideas, made a very low quality VR tech demo with almost certainly "borrowed" assets, using the SCP public domain backstory because he couldn't come up with his own. There's a bit of a pattern here. It's abandoned Early Access, and will never be completed... unethically, the developer hasn't properly branded this as EA when it should be. What do you do in the game? It's a VR tech demo, so you'll put a headset on and wave you arms around. Surely the pinnacle of gaming. You're a new D-Class personnel thrust into a chaotic situation where multiple SCP entities have escaped. The gameplay involves exploring the facility, finding logs to learn about the SCP entities, and running for your life. The game's narrative is a branching one, with eight different endings determined by your choices. But none of this matters, the developer abandoned this instead of completing it, because, you know, like all terrible developers, didn't bother taking backups. The game graphics look better than you might expect, but that's just because it looks like some or all of them are "borrowed" from asset stores or wherever. Gamers can tell... and it comes across as insincere. There's also the old adage that those who lack the budget and talent to make their own game assets usually lack the budget and talent to do the rest of the job of game development properly, too. There's no initial download price, but the developer was charging $5 USD for this. Even after that, he's still trying to scam gamers with paid soundtrack "donation" DLC... digital panhandling. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It seems like a nice gesture for the game to have no up-front cost anymore, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. This is also a bit of a slap in the face to anyone who showed enough questionable judgement to pay money for this... nobody got refunded. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at just a dozen or so concurrent players, and now there's basically nobody playing it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Nope. This isn't worth downloading. There's no financial cost up-front, but you'd still be spending your time and a little hard drive space on a product that's far from the best. There's thousands of better alternatives on Steam.

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Unplayable, no settings to change, dark & confusing af... acording to other reviews it seems that this costed money before being canceled & become f2p. Can't imagine paying even 1$ for this. If was done, completed, fixed & improved it would have been worth it but i guess we will never find out.

The developer(s) didn't back up the project files for the game they were selling to people, so now everyone else gets it for free while the people that paid for it are left with an unfinished project. This developer will get no support from me in the future, no matter what kind of quality their next product has.

Walk down stairs, get stuck in darkness. The name of the game is accurate I guess. 3/10