Gag Order is a newly revealed co-op horror shooter with a distinctly SCP-style premise: you and your squad aren't there to win, just to survive as best you can against a pack of nasty, tentacle-covered cephalopod creatures, Rock Paper Shotgun reports.

The outlet draws a line to Carrion, the cult hit that flipped the horror formula by letting players control the writhing monster instead of fleeing it. Gag Order sits on the other side of that equation — players are back to being the hunted, facing down the kind of creature design that made Carrion's tentacled abomination so memorably unsettling.

The SCP framing — anomalous entities, containment-gone-wrong energy — has become fertile ground for co-op horror, and pairing it with shooter mechanics puts Gag Order in a lane players have shown real appetite for. Cooperative horror thrives on the gap between firepower and dread, and a game built explicitly around surviving rather than winning leans straight into it.