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As a Vulture in Mist-ravaged Zalesye, scavenge, fight, take jobs and modify weapons to survive and push deeper into the wastes.
Released 04 Sep 2026
Raid Underground Bunkers
Customize Your Guns
Earn Trader Trust
Scavland is a hardcore Top-Down Pixel Art survival RPG set in a Post-Apocalyptic Soviet world. Scavenge the wastes and forgotten bunkers, take dangerous jobs, build your reputation, and customize your arsenal as you fight to survive mutants, hostile survivors, radiation, and the deadly Mist.
Developed by NoShadow · Published by NoShadow, UNSUBSCRIBE
You play as a Vulture, a scavenger in Zalesye, a post-apocalyptic land scarred by war and consumed by the mysterious Mist. After surviving a near-fatal shooting, you explore the region and seek answers about the Mist and the world beyond it.
Travel through abandoned settlements, forests, swamps and other dangerous sites to search containers, take on hostile survivors and mutants, and complete jobs. Survival means managing supplies, ammunition, radiation and equipment condition; weapons can jam, so prepare your loadout before each trip.
The open world includes handcrafted surface locations and underground areas with procedural layouts. Work for traders and settlements to build reputation and unlock goods and opportunities, while your choices affect how factions treat you. Exploration, quests and growing your arsenal support your efforts to venture farther into the wastes.
Players who enjoy Scavland often praise its bleak atmosphere, pixel-art presentation and detailed sound, which make the world feel tense and inhabited. Reviews also highlight the appeal of exploring for loot, customizing firearms and planning risky expeditions where scarce supplies and dangerous encounters give each trip a sense of consequence. Some players find this challenge compelling, while others consider the balance and early-access roughness frustrating.
Scavland is a hardcore survival RPG set in Zalesye, a land ravaged by war and the mysterious Mist.
You are a Vulture - a scavenger surviving on what the old world left behind. Explore abandoned settlements, take dangerous jobs, fight mutants and hostile survivors, and slowly build the equipment and reputation you need to push deeper into the wastes.
Ammunition is scarce, weapons can jam, radiation is everywhere, and preparation can mean the difference between returning with valuable loot or not returning at all.
Zalesye is home to different factions, settlements, traders, scavengers, and survivors, each trying to make a life in what remains of the world.
Meet their people, take quests, build relationships, and decide who you are willing to work with. Your reputation and choices shape how different groups treat you and what opportunities become available.
Some are trying to rebuild society. Others are simply trying to survive it.
Explore a handcrafted open world filled with abandoned structures, dangerous forests, irradiated swamps, hidden locations, mutants, bandits, and remnants of the old world.
But the surface is only part of Scavland.
Discover entrances to underground bunkers and other dangerous locations featuring procedural layouts, creating different spaces to explore across your playthroughs.
The further you leave the safety of known roads and settlements, the greater the danger - and the better the potential rewards. 
Weapons are more than something you find and replace.
Collect firearms and attachments throughout the world and customize them to fit your needs. Change components, experiment with different configurations, and build weapons around your preferred playstyle.
Your equipment defines how prepared you are for the journey ahead. Build your loadout around where you are going, what you expect to encounter, and how much you are willing to risk.
Survival depends on more than what you can find in the wastes.
Traders offer weapons, equipment, attachments, supplies, and other valuable goods - but their best stock has to be earned.
Take jobs, complete requests, and build your reputation with the people of Zalesye. As your relationship improves, new items and opportunities become available.
Every expedition becomes part of a larger cycle:
Prepare. Explore. Scavenge. Survive. Return. Upgrade. Go deeper.
You survived being near-fatally shot by mysterious soldiers said to have come from a far-away land with no Mist.
Now you want answers.
The people of Zalesye speak of the East as a promised land beyond the RO-29 Highway - somewhere untouched by the Mist and the horrors consuming the Continent.
Whether those stories are true is another question.
Explore Zalesye, follow its stories, help its inhabitants, and uncover what the Mist is - and why you survived when you should have died.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 44 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Website | Official website |
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