SCP: Project Pneuma hits Steam Early Access on October 25 with complete Chapter I

CONFIRMED: SCP: Project Pneuma, Zatun's first-person psychological horror game inspired by the SCP universe, enters Steam Early Access for Windows PC on October 25, 2026, a Sunday — tomorrow for readers on Saturday. The announcement came in a statement from Zatun itself, reproduced by Games Press on October 14, and the launch trailer arrived on October 19. A free demo is already available on Steam. The story follows Dr. Alexander “Alexie” Kolchak, a Foundation researcher and one of the few survivors of the Site-19 collapse, after a catastrophic containment failure left anomalies roaming its abandoned corridors.

What Chapter I includes

Early Access includes the complete Chapter I campaign, with several explorable environments, investigation mechanics, environmental puzzles, and encounters with anomalies such as SCP-173Z, SCP-096Z, SCP-939Z and SCP-239Z. The game bets on stealth, exploration and scarce resources instead of direct confrontation: each anomaly follows its own rules, and players must understand how it behaves to survive. The story arrives through journals, voice recordings, abandoned equipment and environmental clues, while hallucinations distort already-visited spaces and blur what is real and what is a product of Alexie's mind.

Small team, long Early Access

According to the game's Steam page, Zatun is a team of just four people — two developers and two designers — and Early Access is expected to last approximately 6 to 12 months, with Chapter II in development and the price rising gradually as new content arrives. The official page lists the price at US$ 7.99. In short: those who join now get a complete Chapter I, lasting around 2 hours or more, but should expect performance, balance and polish adjustments throughout Early Access — something the developer states explicitly, rather than promising a finished game.

Image credit: official SCP: Project Pneuma artwork, released by Zatun.

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