Anatoly Shestov, the executive producer on successful Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, has now revealed a very personal dream: making a mass-scale game in the interesting Secure, Contain, and Protect (SCP) universe. This was during a presentation of the Lex Imperialis DLC for Rogue Trader, giving a deep dive into the gameplay vision-based objectives at Owlcat Games, a studio dedicated to thoughtful interpretations of legendary intellectual properties.
Owlcat Games, since its establishment in 2016, has built a reputable niche by its provision of immersive role-playing experience on the basis of popular tabletop IPs. Games like Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous are a testament to their capacity for filling deep lore in captivating digital narratives. With titles like Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy and The Expanse: Osiris Reborn so close to release, Shestov’s SCP game is promising an expansion goal for the studio into potentially original but community-derived intellectual properties.
Shestov described his enduring admiration for the SCP Foundation, a wiki-based, open-source endeavor in which a global community builds tales of the anomalous and the supernatural. He isolated the community-driven aspect, where there’s a genuine-to-goodness “child inside me” kind of reverence for the genius of its open-source ideology. The potential for an epic-scale, high-budget RPG delving into the nitty-gritty of this fan-created mythology does have some appeal, one that posits a project that could combine Owlcat’s storytelling prowess with the SCP universe’s boundless imagination.
Although Shestov’s remarks don’t solidify any immediate SCP game development plans in Owlcat’s pipeline, they set an exciting course of action for things to come. The SCP universe, which debuted in 2008, has long been a driving force behind many games in every genre imaginable, such as horror, strategy, and first-person shooters, among others like SCP: Secret Laboratory and SCP: 5K. An Owlcat prestige studio might very well take the SCP gaming experience to unprecedented and new levels with an expensive budget production, and it would provide a dramatic, profound dive into its distinctive world of the unexplained.
