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dont have people ever be actually seeable, think about trying to make this as easy to create while being scary and fun. dont rely on good sfx and have it not be too complex only needed mechanics. 30 minute game max SCP-7921: ALONE TOGETHER A first-person survival-horror game where finding another survivor is often worse than finding a monster. You are a containment systems technician trapped inside a failing underground research facility. After becoming the designated target of two linked anomalies, you discover the only reliable way to stop them: Be completely alone. Unfortunately, escaping the facility requires help. The game combines environmental puzzles, systemic pursuit, survivor coordination, and a branching narrative. Rather than fighting monsters, you manage distance, visibility, infrastructure, and human contact—trying to save people who cannot safely stand beside you. 1. The Core Experience The central tension reverses a familiar horror-game instinct. Normally, another person means safety. Here, hearing someone call your name from the end of a corridor can be the most frightening moment in the game. You might spend twenty minutes restoring power to a security office, only to discover an injured guard inside. Opening the door would let you reach the controls—but would also wake both entities. You could: Find a maintenance route to operate the controls from behind a partition. Guide the guard to another room using written instructions. Send a delivery robot with medical supplies. Deliberately trigger a pursuit, accepting the danger to move the guard somewhere safer. The goal is not simply to avoid everyone. It is to accomplish things with other people while remaining physically separated from them. Core gameplay loop Survey an area using maps, indirect sensors, and short observation windows. Locate survivors and establish safe, remote contact. Prepare separation routes using shutters, doors, and alternate corridors. Complete an objective that changes the facility or advances the story. Manage a breach if someone enters your presence. Reach genuine isolation to make the entities dormant again. Recover, reroute, and deal with the damage left behind. 2. Story and Setting The protagonist You play a maintenance specialist responsible for the facility’s automated containment systems. You know the building’s machinery, but you are not a soldier or an expert on SCP-7921. Your familiarity with service tunnels, pressure systems, and emergency controls gives you useful tools without making you powerful. The opening The game begins during a routine inspection on Sub-Level 3. You learn to examine SCP-7921-A through tightly limited, five-second thermal bursts. Between observations, you check damaged insulation, compare sensor readings, and adjust the vault’s equipment. Then a lockdown begins. A technician becomes trapped behind a failing maintenance partition. An emergency optical alignment station can release the partition, but its automatic viewing shutter has malfunctioned. Completing the alignment means keeping SCP-7921-A in uninterrupted view. You understand the risk. The other technician does not have time for another solution. As the alignment progresses, the entity’s tiny movements begin matching your eyes. Its head shifts when your gaze shifts. Your pupils widen. Then it shudders. Far below, pressure readings in SCP-7921-B’s tank spike at exactly the same moment. The partition opens. The technician enters your workspace to thank you. Something hits the ceiling. This introduces the game’s central rule through a playable crisis, not an unexplained cutscene. The larger plot The lockdown was not an ordinary containment failure. An internal project has been testing whether SCP-7921 can be used as a controllable, nonlethal crowd-dispersal system. Someone deliberately compromised the safeguards to obtain data from a live target moving through an occupied facility. Their assumption was that “nonlethal” meant manageable. Major story characters The containment officer: Understands the anomaly and insists on strict separation, even when it means abandoning accessible survivors. The surviving technician: The person you saved in the opening. Helps restore remote systems and struggles with the fact that gratitude cannot be expressed face-to-face. The medical coordinator: Operates a remote treatment station and argues that “nonlethal” says nothing about broken bones, exposure, or preventable deaths. The project director: Claims the experiment can still produce valuable results and repeatedly asks you to take “one more controlled risk.” Most relationships develop through text terminals, drawings left on windows 3. The Rules Must Be Clear The horror works only if players can understand what caused a breach. Visual imprinting Before you are marked, a fleeting glance is safe. Sustained, uninterrupted observation of either entity for approximately 30–45 seconds causes the imprint. Looking away genuinely breaks the exposure sequence. The game does not secretly accumulate dozens of unrelated glances. During prolonged observation: The edges of the image lose clarity. Small ambient sounds become harder to distinguish. The entity’s movements begin following your eye movements. A visor warning appears if the safety system is functional. After the opening imprint, looking at the entities does not create a second mark or a separate “sanity” penalty. The permanent target designation is now the problem. Human presence For gameplay, presence has a consistent physical meaning: Another person sharing your enclosed space can activate the entities even if you are not looking at them. Direct, unobstructed face-to-face contact through an open doorway is unsafe. Physical contact activates them immediately. Closed, opaque barriers separating occupied rooms prevent shared presence. Text communication and indirect sensors do not count as human presence. The facility prohibits live voice communication with targets, so normal cooperation uses text rather than casually bypassing the containment protocol with a radio. Breaking contact versus becoming isolated These are different states. Closing a shutter between yourself and a survivor can end immediate contact and reduce pursuit intensity. It does not instantly resolve the incident. The entities continue shadowing and herding you until you reach genuine solitude. A certified isolation refuge requires an empty surrounding zone, sealed access, and no personnel within the designated perimeter. A toilet cubicle in a crowded ward is not a safe room. 4. The Two Entities They are not interchangeable enemies. Each attacks a different part of your plan. SCP-7921-A — The Disruptor A moves above you through ceiling spaces, overhead structures, and maintenance shafts. Its role is to make the environment unreliable. It can: Sever power to shutters and lights. Break overhead pipes. Batter a door until its frame jams. Disable cameras and signage. Create violent impacts that frighten survivors into moving. You rarely see its whole body during a pursuit. Instead, you see ceiling tiles lift in sequence, white spurs punch through metal, and emergency lights disappear one corridor at a time. Counterplay: Prepare mechanical backups, choose routes with reinforced ceilings, isolate vulnerable power circuits, and avoid depending on one electrically powered door. SCP-7921-B — The Herder B moves at floor level and through sufficiently large ventilation routes. Its role is to prevent assistance and narrow your options. It can: Intercept a survivor approaching you. Push people away from a shared doorway. Drag heavy furniture across an exit. Occupy the shortest route toward a group. Force you toward an unoccupied branch of the facility. It does not announce itself with a roar. You might notice a door slowly closing, a boot sliding backward across the floor, or a red shape standing motionless beyond a half-open shutter. Counterplay: Keep survivors away from your planned route, establish multiple exits, and anticipate which path most directly separates you from other people. Pursuits are routing problems, not footraces You cannot outrun something moving over 70 km/h in an open corridor. Survival depends on preparation: Turn through a route the entity cannot traverse directly. Close a barrier before it reaches the junction. Separate the survivor from your space. Redirect yourself toward an empty sector. The entities move in terrifying bursts between obstacles. They do not politely jog behind you. 5. Major Gameplay Systems A. The separation map Your map displays more than rooms and objectives. It tracks: Confirmed survivor locations. Last-known positions when sensors fail. Door and shutter states. Spaces currently sharing an open connection. Potential isolation refuges. Areas with unknown occupancy. A room is never labelled “safe” merely because nobody has spoken recently. You must verify it using access logs, pressure mats, motion detectors, or manual inspection. Damaged sensors produce uncertainty rather than conveniently precise information. B. Asynchronous cooperation Many puzzles require two people, but not two people standing together. Examples include: A survivor reads a fuse diagram from one room while you configure a panel elsewhere. You raise a sealed lift carrying another person, then use a separate stairwell. Someone leaves a key in a transfer drawer before withdrawing. Two switches must be held simultaneously on opposite sides of an opaque blast wall. The challenge is coordinating actions and movement without accidentally opening a shared space. C. Survivor behavior Survivors have different levels of trust, injury, and composure. A trained guard may obey “remain behind the shutter.” A frightened civilian may follow the sound of machinery because they believe rescuers have arrived. Their reactions are telegraphed through terminal messages, visible behavior, and warnings. They do not randomly sabotage plans just to manufacture a scare. You can improve cooperation by: Explaining the rules. Providing medicine and supplies. Restoring lighting in their route. Giving clear destinations rather than vague instructions. Demonstrating that you will return instead of abandoning them. D. Infrastructure management Power determines which kinds of separation are available. Restoring electricity might activate a secure isolation wing—but also open automatic doors elsewhere. You can reroute limited power between: Environmental sensors. Ventilation. Medical equipment. Security shutters. Transfer lifts. Automated supply systems. A damages local infrastructure during breaches, so repeated mistakes change the playable space. A convenient corridor may become flooded, dark, or mechanically sealed. Essential objectives always retain an alternate solution; destruction creates complications, not invisible softlocks. E. Remote tools Your equipment is practical rather than weapon-focused: Short-burst thermal viewer: Safely checks selected dark spaces. Occupancy scanner: Detects possible human movement through nearby partitions, with reduced reliability around machinery. Compact delivery crawler: Carries small supplies through service passages without triggering human-presence rules. Mechanical door braces: Preserve separation when electrical locks fail. Portable text display: Communicates silently across a safe boundary. Cable repair kit: Restores a damaged local system, but takes time and requires access. Inventory space is limited. Carrying extra braces may mean leaving behind medicine or a replacement battery. F. Deliberate breach manipulation Experienced players can intentionally use the entities’ behavior. A may smash an overhead barrier that blocks access. B may drive armed personnel away from your position. However, this is dangerous rather than a reliable superpower: You cannot give either entity orders. They choose routes according to their isolation objective. Collateral damage persists. Survivors may be injured or lose trust. The resulting escape route may be worse than the original obstacle. 6. Failure Without Routine Monster Kills The entities do not suddenly become executioners for a conventional game-over animation. If caught near another person, the encounter becomes a violent forced separation: A barrier is destroyed. The bystander is thrown or driven away. You are knocked down or shoved into an empty route. Equipment may be damaged or lost. Injuries make later tasks harder. Once other people are gone, aggression decreases. Death can still occur through the facility’s hazards—fire, flooding, structural collapse, or untreated injury—but the anomalies’ behavior remains focused on isolation. 7. Campaign Structure Act I — The Mark Learn observation procedures, become the target, and survive the first breach. The immediate objective is reaching an emergency isolation room. 8. Visual Direction The facility Avoid making every room an identical dark corridor. Distinct areas include: Sub-Level 3: Matte-black acoustic panels, narrow amber floor strips, padded maintenance vestibules. Sub-Level 9: Huge oil tanks, pressure gauges, heavy piping, oily maintenance platforms, and deliberately absent observation windows. Medical sectors: Pale green partitions, abandoned privacy curtains, bright examination lamps. Occupied shelters: Warm task lights, ration wrappers, handwritten notices, and improvised bedding. Isolation refuges: Clean, spacious, almost painfully empty rooms with sealed transfer drawers and furniture fixed far from the door. The safest places should look lonely rather than comfortable. SCP-7921-A A has no glowing eyes or theatrical armor. Its silhouette is tall, narrow, and irregular, with bone protrusions that catch tiny amounts of light. Calcified surfaces resemble chalk, old ivory, and fractured ceramic. During movement, its joints fold into positions that make sense only once you realize it is bracing against both sides of a shaft. SCP-7921-B B is visually dense and heavy: exposed red muscle, dark vascular bundles, and subtle involuntary contractions. Its most disturbing poses are still ones. A mass of living tissue waits beside a doorway with enough patience to make the player wonder how long it has been there. Its footfalls are almost absent. Up close, the sound is tension and tissue movement rather than exaggerated squelching. Interface Use equipment displays and environmental signage rather than a constant monster-detection radar. When marking occurs, the personnel status on your wrist device changes from: