Games like SCP: Control Error
If SCP: Control Error is your kind of game, the closest matches are Clink, SOMA and Platform 8 — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About SCP: Control Error: SCP: CONTROL ERROR is a short psychological horror game where you take part in a live experiment inside a restricted underground facility. The test begins. You're observed.
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Clink
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Top pick for SCP: Control Error fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Control Error.
You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?
SOMA
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Second-strongest match for SCP: Control Error fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Control Error.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Platform 8
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for SCP: Control Error fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Control Error.
You are trapped on a train that runs forever. Keep an eye out for anomalies and find a way out.
Fuck You Witch
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Ranked #4 for SCP: Control Error fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Control Error.
Your best friend has confessed her love for you... but the problems don't stop there. You've started to hallucinate. All this interferes with sleeping and eating, and in general disrupts your ideal lifestyle. Yell obscenities at the witch, immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the Qazaq steppes
Chorus of Carcosa
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Ranked #5 for SCP: Control Error fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Control Error.
Chorus of Carcosa is a first-person psychological horror game about an anxious sculptor who is trapped in a dark and ever-changing building. Stay silent, survive its twisted labyrinths and escape the monsters. Just don’t lose your way in the shadows or within your own mind.
There's Something In The Ice
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Ranked #6 for SCP: Control Error fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Control Error.
In 2015, three scientists at the Antarctic research station "Zarya" drilled into the ice to a depth of 2 kilometers and took samples for study... It seems that what they found was not at all what they were looking for...
Visage
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Ranked #7 for SCP: Control Error fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Control Error.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
ROUTINE
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Ranked #8 for SCP: Control Error fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Control Error.
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SCP: Control Error at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~67% under SCP: Control Error on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Control Error.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under SCP: Control Error on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Control Error.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~67% under SCP: Control Error on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with SCP: Control Error.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
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Priced ~67% under SCP: Control Error on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with SCP: Control Error.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~67% under SCP: Control Error on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with SCP: Control Error.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~67% under SCP: Control Error on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SCP: Control Error.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~67% under SCP: Control Error on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with SCP: Control Error.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SCP: Control Error.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with SCP: Control Error.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SCP: Control Error.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Control Error.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Control Error.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SCP: Control Error.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with SCP: Control Error.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCP: Control Error.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about SCP: Control Error
- Is SCP: Control Error verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — SCP: Control Error is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does SCP: Control Error cost?
- SCP: Control Error is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to SCP: Control Error?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SCP: Control Error are Clink, SOMA, Platform 8.
- Who developed SCP: Control Error?
- SCP: Control Error was developed by Chieftain Artworks and published by Goonswarm Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on SCP: Control Error.
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