Games like SCP: Blackout
If SCP: Blackout is your kind of game, the closest matches are FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: HELP WANTED, Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion: HD Renovation and The Solus Project — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its facility exploration feels immersive, atmospheric and dark. 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: Blackout: A VR/Desktop game where you are a new D-Class personnel in secret SCP Research Site-50 when everything falls apart. Use what you can find as you explore the facility, access logs to learn about the SCP entities in containment, and run for your life from the SCP entities that have escaped.
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Steam players who put hours into SCP: Blackout also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: HELP WANTED
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with SCP: Blackout.
Top pick for SCP: Blackout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted is a collection of classic and original mini-games set in the Five Nights universe. Experience the horror in flat (non-VR) mode or VR. Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are supported. A VR Headset is NOT required to play.
Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion: HD Renovation
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCP: Blackout.
Second-strongest match for SCP: Blackout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with SCP: Blackout.
Can you survive 1000 rooms of cute terror? Or will you break once the cuteness starts to fade off and you're running for your life from the unspeakable hideous beings that shake and writhe in bowels of this house? They wait for you, they wait and hunger for meeting you.
The Solus Project
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCP: Blackout.
Third-strongest match for SCP: Blackout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with SCP: Blackout.
The Solus Project is a single player exploration adventure with survival elements. The adventure is set on a mysterious planet and is the spiritual successor to The Ball - 2010 PC Gamer Action/Adventure Game Of The Year...
DEVOUR
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCP: Blackout.
Ranked #4 for SCP: Blackout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with SCP: Blackout.
DEVOUR is a co-op horror survival game for 1-4 players. Stop possessed cultists before they drag you to hell. Run. Scream. Hide. Just don't get caught.
Don't Knock Twice
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCP: Blackout.
Ranked #5 for SCP: Blackout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with SCP: Blackout.
Don't Knock Twice is a first-person horror game based on a psychologically terrifying urban legend. One knock to wake her from her bed, twice to raise her from the dead. Supports VR on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift for the ultimate horror experience!
Emily Wants To Play
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCP: Blackout.
Ranked #6 for SCP: Blackout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with SCP: Blackout.
It’s 11pm and the last house on your route. The windows are boarded up, the yard is overgrown, but the lights are on and the front door is open… strange place to deliver a pizza. You’re getting soaked from the rain, so you hesitantly step inside the house. You shouldn’t have done that.
Frosty Nights
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCP: Blackout.
Ranked #7 for SCP: Blackout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with SCP: Blackout.
Frosty Nights is a First Person hybrid horror game that focuses on atmosphere and suspense.
Narcosis
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCP: Blackout.
Ranked #8 for SCP: Blackout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with SCP: Blackout.
Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the Pacific Ocean: Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his oxygen — and sanity — give out.
Reviewers mention these as similar to SCP: Blackout
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SCP – Containment Breach
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCP: Blackout.
Reviewers of SCP: Blackout cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with SCP: Blackout.
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
The Stanley Parable
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCP: Blackout.
Reviewers of SCP: Blackout cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with SCP: Blackout.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCP: Blackout.
Reviewers of SCP: Blackout cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Ushering in a new era for the METAL GEAR franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain, will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered tactical freedom to carry out open-world missions.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Mahelyk, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Dread X Collection 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCP: Blackout.
Another title from Mahelyk, the studio behind SCP: Blackout. Shares Indie with SCP: Blackout.
Explore 12 horror games made in 10 days connected by a meta narrative experience you didn't expect. Step into a world of darkness and discover the secrets you didn't know were right beneath the surface. Find the tapes and unlock the mystery inside the Dread X Collection 2.
Dread X Collection
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCP: Blackout.
Another title from Mahelyk, the studio behind SCP: Blackout. Shares Indie with SCP: Blackout.
10 Tales of Terror from 10 Twisted Minds. Made in only 7 Sleepless Nights. The Dread X Collection is a series of small games created by some of the most talented indie devs around, all with the same mission: create the P.T. for the horror project of their dreams.
GlitchSPANKR
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCP: Blackout.
Another title from Mahelyk, the studio behind SCP: Blackout.
GlitchSPANKR is a comedy-driven narrative adventure full of secrets, chaos, minigames, and unexpected choices. Spank, spare, or smooch your way through a corrupted 90s game haunted by a lonely, unstable virus. Every level is different. Every choice matters. Your future is in your wiggly hand.
Going the Distance
WHY THIS
Another title from Mahelyk, the studio behind SCP: Blackout. Shares Indie with SCP: Blackout.
Build and upgrade paper planes to celebrate the memories of your lost brother to help with your grief. In this launcher game you will have different crafts and locations to re-live the best memories to help let him go. D̶̰̕ô̵̮n̶͎͘'̷̙̂t̴͕̚ ̵̤͂ḷ̵͛e̷̘͝t̷̙̕ ̷̼̈h̶̞̆ï̸̯m̶̖͠ ̵̘̔g̸̻̾ő̸̗
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: HELP WANTED
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with SCP: Blackout.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted is a collection of classic and original mini-games set in the Five Nights universe. Experience the horror in flat (non-VR) mode or VR. Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are supported. A VR Headset is NOT required to play.
Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion: HD Renovation
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCP: Blackout.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with SCP: Blackout.
Can you survive 1000 rooms of cute terror? Or will you break once the cuteness starts to fade off and you're running for your life from the unspeakable hideous beings that shake and writhe in bowels of this house? They wait for you, they wait and hunger for meeting you.
DEVOUR
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCP: Blackout.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with SCP: Blackout.
DEVOUR is a co-op horror survival game for 1-4 players. Stop possessed cultists before they drag you to hell. Run. Scream. Hide. Just don't get caught.
Emily Wants To Play
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCP: Blackout.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with SCP: Blackout.
It’s 11pm and the last house on your route. The windows are boarded up, the yard is overgrown, but the lights are on and the front door is open… strange place to deliver a pizza. You’re getting soaked from the rain, so you hesitantly step inside the house. You shouldn’t have done that.
Frequently asked about SCP: Blackout
- Is SCP: Blackout free to play?
- Yes — SCP: Blackout is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to SCP: Blackout?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SCP: Blackout are FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: HELP WANTED, Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion: HD Renovation, The Solus Project.
- Who developed SCP: Blackout?
- SCP: Blackout was developed by Mahelyk.
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: Blackout.
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