Allen wrenches not included

October 4, 2022 3:21 PM

The Store is Closed is a forthcoming survival horror game set in SCP-3008, an endless furniture store that is definitely not IKEA. Here's the trailer.

The game is still early in development (after a successful Kickstarter). Planned features include:

• Support for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S
• Online four-player co-op
• A day-night cycle
• Resource gathering, crafting, and building
• Craftable grappling hooks, parachutes, gliders, and ladders
• Weaponized shopping carts: "Attach pizza cutters, knives, and nails to your shopping cart and ram into the staff"
• SCP-1609 (The Remains of a Chair), SCP-294 (The Coffee Machine), and SCP-432 (Cabinet Maze)
• At least one manager (boss)

posted by escape from the potato planet (12 comments total)

It looks amusing, but I'm not seeing anything innovative in the trailer. It looks like a sort of re-tread of Five Nights at Freddies, or any number of other trapped-in-a-location survival games.
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 3:39 PM on October 4, 2022 [3 favorites]

"I'm all lost in the supermarket,
I can no longer shop happily,
I came in here for a special offer,
Guaranteed personality."
posted by LeRoienJaune at 4:06 PM on October 4, 2022 [6 favorites]

Does Scott Seiss make a cameo?
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 4:12 PM on October 4, 2022 [1 favorite]

Swedish meatball power-up?
posted by gottabefunky at 4:51 PM on October 4, 2022 [3 favorites]

It looks like a sort of re-tread
as long as they aren't wholesale copying I am OK if its similar to existing titles. The real questions is once they have built this out can the extend it to other store franchises? I am thinking of a certain membership warehouse chain....


I did once get lost in an Ikea in the Netherlands. My dutch isn't great, but I knew the word for exit. I Thought I was following the "shortcut to exit" signs but I ended up back in the same spot about 4 times before I decided to just follow the long way out of the store. Luckily I had already filled up on meatballs before the journey.
posted by CostcoCultist at 5:22 PM on October 4, 2022 [1 favorite]

I generally resist the in jokes but if I’ve ever seen an eponysterical…
posted by thedaniel at 11:19 PM on October 4, 2022 [3 favorites]

Given that IKEA are embracing gaming culture (making a line of chairs, desks and variants of their pegboards with 1337-d00d branding in futuristic tactical grey), perhaps they should fully lean into SCP-3008. What's the worst that could happen to the brand if they did?
posted by acb at 1:37 AM on October 5, 2022

Well, clearly someone has read Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix. (Highly recommended, super fun.)
posted by Ben Trismegistus at 8:06 AM on October 5, 2022 [1 favorite]

Well, clearly someone has read Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix. (Highly recommended, super fun.)

An utter bastard to get into FanFare tho.
posted by Etrigan at 8:08 AM on October 5, 2022 [2 favorites]

I would argue that Valve's Portal is the first IKEA-based survival horror game.
posted by Strange Interlude at 8:12 AM on October 5, 2022 [3 favorites]

Horrorstör and Grady Hendrix's other books are fantastic, agreed. I really want to play this game simply because that book in particular was so much fun that 'cursed DIY furniture hellscape' is instantly attractive to me.
posted by kkar at 4:29 PM on October 5, 2022

Not the type of game I usually play but love the feel of it. So bored with regular monsters that mysterious things are very cool to me.
posted by tiny frying pan at 5:15 AM on October 6, 2022