Scum
Scum aims to evolve the multiplayer open world survival game with unprecedented levels of character customization, control and progression, where knowledge and skills are the ultimate weapons for long-term survival. Combining the methodical planning and management of hardcore survival with optional PvP ‘network events’ available to everyone at anytime, SCUM strikes a unique balance between complex simulation and intense action in the next generation of survival game.
What it feels like
Sustained edge-of-seat pressure where resource scarcity and PvP threats create imminent danger. A harsh, unflinching survival world that refuses comfort or easy solutions.
What it's about
Enduring a hostile island and its systems is the central struggle and subject. A prison island setting implies collapse and lawlessness, though not explicitly post-apocalyptic. Being stranded on an island with limited contact creates solitude and self-reliance as core themes.
How it plays
Managing hunger, thirst, health, and other bodily systems to stay alive is definitional to the survival loop. Scarce resources must be gathered, budgeted, and consumed under pressure to sustain life. Deep customization of character stats, skills, and progression enables theorycrafted survival builds and playstyles.
How it's structured
A large continuous island is freely explorable in player-chosen order, forming the core play space. The island is traversed without loading screens or hard boundaries between regions. A shared world that persists and evolves with other players present, sustaining the survival challenge.
Kindred games
Shares Open World, Survival Against Nature, Survival Needs, Resource Management.
Both lean into Open World, Survival Against Nature, Survival Needs, Resource Management.
Shares Survival Needs, Open World, Post-Apocalyptic, Survival Against Nature.
Both lean into Survival Needs, Open World, Post-Apocalyptic, Resource Management.
Shares Survival Against Nature, Survival Needs, Open World, Resource Management.
Both lean into Survival Needs, Survival Against Nature, Open World, Resource Management.
Closest hidden gems
A lesser-known kindred — Open World, Survival Against Nature, Survival Needs, Resource Management. 88% positive across 4,765 Steam reviews.
Both lean into Open World, Survival Against Nature, Survival Needs, Resource Management.
A lesser-known kindred — Base Building, Resource Management, Survival Against Nature, Nonlinear Progression. 86% positive across 4,627 Steam reviews.
Both lean into Base Building, Resource Management, Survival Against Nature, Nonlinear Progression.
A lesser-known kindred — Open World, Survival Against Nature, Survival Needs, Resource Management. 85% positive across 4,314 Steam reviews.
Both lean into Open World, Survival Against Nature, Survival Needs, Resource Management.