You only get one run at playing this game as intended, and you don’t want it ruined for you forever. If you do want to play it, I suggest you don’t read anything else on it beyond this article, and especially don’t watch any videos. I had an archive of what happened during the three runs I made at this game, but have scrapped them so as not to spoil this game for anyone. That information alone made my journey down the stairs into the most terrifying experience I’ve ever had with a game and quite possibly in my life. The floor it appears on is somewhat randomized too, so you can never be sure when the thing is going to show up. Once you’re on the stairs, there’s nothing you can do besides walk closer and closer to a creature that is practically guaranteed to kill you. This game is unrelenting in frightening you. The point of the stairwell is that you’re trying to examine a creature that lives at the bottom of it, even though running into it is probably the last thing that will ever happen to you. The furthest I’ve gone down it was 82 floors, but there are reports of people who’ve gone down almost 300 flights. With some fiddling around in the foyer, you’ll open a door down to a stairwell that seems to go on forever. SCP-087 gets right to the point, dropping you a short distance from a creepy old house.
What did it stand for? As it would turn out, it stood for the perfect distillation of everything that evoked fear the 40 year old Dalmore when you were used to drinking mouthwash and vanilla extract under an old bridge. The name alone seemed cold yet evocative. One of the more intriguing ones was for a game that was simply called SCP-087, or sometimes The Stairwell. My very first article on the site drummed up some neat leads on new horror games, ones that I’m only just starting to look into. SCP-087 / The Stairwell is free to download at. They may not all be gems, but they’ve all contributed something to scaring the controllers out of people’s hands.
The Pillars of Horror is a look at the games, past and present, that have shaped the genre, showcasing the various mistakes and triumphs that have come out over the years. Paralyzed with painful fear on the stairs
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