SCP-3008 is survival horror in an unending Ikea purgatory

SCP-3008 is a Swedish furniture fever dream. It’s based off a horror story from the popular SCP Foundation website, one that describes how someone finds themselves in an endless Ikea. Inhuman creatures known as the “Staff” stalk you. It’s still in early development, but developer Julian M., who’s also known as N00mkrad or nmkd, released a free single-player demo on his Itch.io page. The final game will be multiplayer, and it’s tentatively slated for release on PC in Q1 of 2018.

SCP has been around since 2008. It’s a fictional wiki for a secretive organization that deals with paranormal phenomena, and anyone can submit entries to it. SCP-3008 is written by a user named Mortos, and as is the custom, it features an official “form” along with an incident report: The journal entries of a poor soul lost to a labyrinth of chic couches, Billy bookcases, and sleek Nordic bed frames. They find out they’re not the only one: Makeshift cities have sprung up in the infinite Ikea, a kind of substitute society that has banded together against the monsters that attack at night.