Co-Op Horror Game The Store is Closed is About Being Trapped in an IKEA

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A Kickstarter for the unsettling co-op horror survival game The Store is Closed has launched. The idea of being lost in an IKEA, or a similar industrial furniture store of massive proportions, is certainly nightmarish. Unsurprisingly, someone's decided to take this nightmare and turn it into a horror video game, mixing in horrible monsters dressed like store employees and co-op, too. That game is The Store is Closed and it needs some help to keep development moving forward.

The idea starts with a collaborative writing project named the SCP Foundation. The SCP Foundation combines thousands of stories, documents, and more to create a supernatural shared universe. One such story is titled SCP-3008, which refers to an ex-IKEA building that teleports visitors to an alternate world where the building is endless and full of monsters. It was this story, SCP-3008, that inspired developer Zippy to create The Store is Closed.

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Players will find the premise of The Store is Closed very simple. The player is stuck in an infinite IKEA-like furniture store and must survive against its mutant staff. Players can explore the store with their friends or alone, using the furniture to craft weapons and fortifications. They'll need those defenses to fend off mutant employees, «Biters» in the kids department, mannequins, TV Golems, and the terrifying and mysterious floor managers.

As for how interested horror game fans can support The Store is Closed's development, the horror game's Kickstarter is now live and accepting pledges. A pledge of £17, around $20, will provide the pledged a game key on PC or console when it tentatively launches in 2024. Upping the pledge to £21, around