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As a prisoner stranded on a hostile island, scavenge, craft, and manage your body while facing Puppets, creatures, and other players.
Released 17 Jun 2025
Manage Your Metabolism
Loot Military Zones
Build an Island Base
Welcome to SCUM, a ruthless open-world survival game where deep character customization defines the prisoner you become. Loot, craft, hunt, build, and fight to outlast a hostile island where every choice can change your fate. Stay alive. Stay dangerous. Become harder to kill.
Developed by Gamepires · Published by Gamepires
You play a prisoner dropped onto a dangerous island as part of a live-broadcast survival scenario. The island holds abandoned settlements, military sites, and threats ranging from reanimated contestants called Puppets to other prisoners.
Explore and scavenge for food, gear, and materials; craft what you need, hunt, and build a base. You can travel alone or team up, while choosing whether to face the island’s threats and other players through PvE or PvP play.
Survival involves more than hunger and thirst: health, nutrition, metabolism, fatigue, and skills shape your character’s development. There is no fixed progression path, and your actions can affect your reputation as you continue to survive and explore.
Players who express enjoyment often point to the detailed survival and metabolism systems, the freedom to explore a large island, and tense encounters such as sneaking around mechanical guards. Some also value the crafting and flexible solo or server-based play. The supplied reviews are mixed, with many complaints about bugs, cheating, and other gameplay frustrations.
Welcome to SCUM, a ruthless open-world survival game where prisoners are dropped onto a vast, hostile island and forced to survive by any means necessary.
Every decision shapes who you become and how long you last. Scavenge, loot, craft, hunt, build and fight for every advantage as you adapt to a world that wants you dead.
Stay alive. Stay dangerous. Become something harder to kill.
SCUM is built on deep, interconnected survival systems that give every choice weight.
Your health, survival skills, metabolism, and fatigue are all shaped by an intricate progression system that defines how long you last.
But you’re not alone out here. Former contestants re-animated as Puppets shamble across the land, mutated experiments twisted into monsters lurk in the dark, and every other player has the same goal as you: Survive long enough to leave a mark.
Risk-taking, high-stakes and tragedy all make for a great show. In SCUM your actions directly shape how you are perceived through the world’s reputation system.
Team-up or go it alone. SCUM gives you the systems, what you do with them is up to you.
You're trapped on a vast and dangerous island built for opportunity and discovery, so scavenge what you need and craft what you don’t have.
SCUM’s 225㎢ map is inspired by all aspects of Croatian territory. Sprawling across beautiful Adriatic coastline, lush forests and harsh freezing mountain sides. Explore high-security military zones and hidden corners of the island, all offering something worth claiming or something worth fearing.
The prisoners who look beyond the next meal may begin to understand what’s really going on here, if they live long enough.
If you can survive here, you can survive anywhere.
Do you have what it takes?
Massive open world with diverse and dangerous environments
Deep character customization, metabolism and survival simulation systems
Complex crafting, looting and base building
PvP and PvE with no fixed progression path
Persistent character development and skill growth
A live-broadcast survival premise with real attitude
Ongoing development with expanding systems and world depth
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 69 |
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| Players | 1–65 |
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| Multiplayer | SCUM supports single-player and server-based multiplayer. Official store text says players can join servers with 64 other players, indicating up to 65 players total on a server. Multiplayer supports both cooperative and competitive play, with server settings allowing PvE, PvP, role-play, and custom rules. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Server owners can host and tailor servers with extensive settings. Reviews mention private hardware/server files, linked Discord bots, and custom quest files. The provided information does not confirm full gameplay mod support beyond server customization and custom files. |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 20 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |
