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SCP: Secret Laboratory

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Revision as of 19:37, 16 December 2022 by Csd was taken (talk | contribs) (Added a note saying what the locked FOV is, changed subtitles to limited, as there are subtitles for the pre-recorded lines the automatic announcer plays.)
SCP: Secret Laboratory
SCP: Secret Laboratory cover
Developers
Northwood Studios
Engines
Unity 2019[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows December 29, 2017
Taxonomy
Monetization Free-to-play
Microtransactions None
Modes Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres FPS, Survival horror
Art styles Realistic
Themes Horror, Supernatural
Series SCP
SCP: Secret Laboratory on IGDB
SCP: Secret Laboratory on MobyGames
SCP-087 (series)
Six-Eight-Two 2012
SCP - Containment Breach 2012
SCP-069-J: The sisters of Cheyenne Point 2014
Daughter of Shadows: An SCP Breach Event 2015
SCP: Containment Breach Unity Edition 2016
Three Days 2017
SCP: Secret Laboratory 2017
The Will of a Single Tale 2018
SCP022 2019
TaskForce Gamma-13: An SCP Tale 2020
SCP: One More Life 2020
SCP: Containment Breach Multiplayer 2021
SCP: Nine-Tailed Fox 2022
SCP: Blackout EA
SCP: Nukalypse EA
SCP: Resonance EA
SCP: The Foundation EA
SCP: Derelict - SciFi First Person Shooter TBA
SCP: Escape Together TBA
SCP: Facility Manager TBA
SCP: Forgotten Facility TBA
SCP: Fragmented Minds TBA
SCP: Labrat TBA
SCP: Pandemic TBA
SCP: Recontainment TBA
SCP Area 8 TBA
Site-37 TBA

Key points

Based on the popular Garry's Mod gamemode SCP: Breach, which in turn is based on SCP - Containment Breach
The language files are located at <path-to-game>\Translation, making the game easy to translate
Developers plan to monetize the game in some way in the future[1]

General information

Wiki
Steam Community Discussions
Discord
Trello

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Windows
Discord (unavailable)
Discord
Windows

Game data

General settings.
General settings.
Gameplay settings.
Gameplay settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\SCP Secret Laboratory
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/700330/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Hubert Moszka\SCP_ Secret Laboratory
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/700330/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Discord
Steam Cloud

Video

Detail settings.
Detail settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Locked to 90
Windowed
Exclusive Fullscreen, Borderless Window, Maximized Window and Windowed available.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Select "Borderless Window" from the Window Mode tab.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Checkbox toggle.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Checkbox toggle.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Options for 15, 30, 45, 60, 90, 120, 144, 165, 240 FPS and Off.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Input

Controls settings.
Controls settings.

Audio

Sound volume.
Sound volume.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master Volume, Sound Effects, Voice Chat, Menu Music and Interface Volume.
Surround sound
Subtitles
There are only subtitles for the automatic announcement system.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Traditional Chinese
Czech
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Polish
Russian
Spanish
Turkish
Ukrainian

Issues unresolved

Chromatic Aberration

There's no way to disable chromatic aberration.[2]

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
20 Versus
Online play
20 Versus

Connection types

Other information

API

Available graphics APIs.
Available graphics APIs.
Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11, 12 Direct3D 12 is considered experimental and as such, graphical bugs may occur. D3D12 is Windows 10-only.
OpenGL 4.5
Vulkan
Vulkan is considered experimental and as such, graphical bugs may occur.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7 SP1
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i3
System memory (RAM) 3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GT 720
2 GB of VRAM
DirectX 11 compatible
A 64-bit system is required.
After the 11.0 update, Windows 7 will be not supported.[3]

Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 2019.3.0b9
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. SCP Secret Laboratory - Official Discord #game-faq - Monetisation - last accessed on 2020-07-25
  2. SCP:SL - Next update graphics - :: SCP:SL Community Discussions - last accessed on 14-03-2018
    "Unfortunately, it is impossible to turn it off for now ;-;"
  3. Weapon Rework Progress developer update. - last accessed on 2021-07-10