I think its high time for me to update my review for this game, since my review was made pre Megapatch 2. This review will be accurate as of July 12th, 2022.

SCP:SL is a lot of things, or as Mechasolaris (Link to Video) said, an asymmetrical team-based strategy shooter game that takes place in a survival-horror roleplay sandbox. The learning curb is extremely steep, as such I would recommend watching some parts of Mechasolaris videos, mainly the one linked above and the 2020 guide with that out of the way here is my review of SCP:SL

SCP:SL takes place at site 02 of the SCP foundation, there is a containment breach where some dangerous player controlled SCPs have broke containment and causes a massive threat to all players. On round start you will be a Class-D, a Scientist, a SCP, or a Facility Guard. D-Class and Scientists shares the same goal, escape the facility. On escape Scientists become MTF, and D-Class become Chaos Insurgency, unless they are cuffed then they join the other side (Cuffed D-Class -> MTF, Cuffed Scientists -> Chaos). Facility guards are weak soldiers if you will, there to fend of SCPs, ensure that scientists survive, and D-Class are put in their place, either via hand cuffs or body bag. Later during the match Mobile Task Force (MTF) or Chaos Insurgency spawn. MTF is there to shoot the SCPs more and ensure the facility is in the foundation's hands. where the Chaos is to wipe out the MTF, and only need to concern themselves with the SCPs if the SCPs engages them.

There is a lot of items to concern yourself with. Access Cards, Weapons, Health, etc. I will not go into depth here with items, but a lot of it can be upgraded at an SCP called SCP 914 mostly using the fine upgrade. Items of note to keep an eye out for is 0-5 Keycards, Armor, Health Kits, Adrenaline, a hat, and guns. Keep an eye out for the people who die for their loot. All of this changes the effects of the game, like additional health, access to some rooms, and more.

There are 4 areas of the game, light containment, heavy containment, entrance zone (or ez), and surface. Surface is very open with small amounts of places to hide, ez is sniper heavy, where heavy and light have a lot more places to hide, but light ONLY locks after 15 minutes of a round to decontaminate. This is an anti stall measure. If that doesnt work you can enable to nuke in heavy and activate it on surface, you can also disable it in the same place you enable it.

This game has a proximity voice chat for humans, with the option for the usage for radios for humans, a generalist chat for spectator, and a team chat with unlimited range for SCPs to talk to others, there is no text chat. For other considerations I would recommend disabling the steam overlay for this game, or rebind in game buttons so you can sprint and use your inventory when needed (shift for sprint, tab for inventory)

All in all, this is a chat room with a game attached to it. This is a game that you will hear a lot of stories from, from those people who played from the beginning or massively before Megapatch 2 like myself. I would recommend it for sure, but the game takes some know how to get the most out of it