SCUM

every update make us nervous... bcs after every update we needt build everything new and deleting everything ..wht the hack..and game still devoloping ..

Every update wipes players' items and vehicles. As a survival game, what's left? I can't enjoy the sense of achievement from accumulating progress at all.

SCUM is not just another survival game; it’s an intricate blend of strategy, realism, and the thrill of competition that keeps players coming back for more. Developed by Gamepires and published by Croteam, this title immerses you into a vast open world with depth that few games can rival.

From the moment you step into the sun-soaked landscapes of SCUM, you can’t help but be captivated by its stunning visuals. The environment is richly detailed, offering a myriad of biomes — from dense forests to arid wastelands — each presenting its unique challenges. The day-night cycle and dynamic weather system add layers of immersion, making each session feel fresh and exhilarating.

What truly sets SCUM apart is its commitment to realism. The game features a complex character customization system that allows players to shape their avatars not just in appearance but also in skills. Every choice you make has consequences, influencing your survival chances in this ruthless world. Do you invest in strength to carry more gear, or agility to evade threats? The choice is yours, and this adds a layer of strategy that keeps the gameplay engaging.

Survival is at the heart of SCUM. It’s not merely about fending off zombies or players; it’s about managing your character's metabolism, hydration levels, and even stress. You’ll find yourself foraging for food, crafting tools, and constructing shelters while constantly monitoring your physical condition. This level of detail demands attention and strategy, turning routine gameplay into an adrenaline-pumping experience.

The multiplayer aspect of SCUM elevates the sensation of survival to new heights. Whether you are teaming up with friends to tackle challenges or engaging in tense standoffs against other players, every encounter feels significant. The blend of PvE and PvP elements keeps players on their toes and fosters a sense of camaraderie or rivalry that is unique to the genre.

Moreover, SCUM boasts an extensive skill system that encourages players to develop their characters further. The freedom to specialize and the potential for failure create a rewarding learning curve. Every death teaches you something new, making your next attempt that much more strategic.

The developers' commitment to continually improving and expanding the game through regular updates and community engagement also deserves special mention. SCUM is a living project, and its evolution has brought about exciting new features, enhancements, and a growing player community that adds to the game’s allure.

In conclusion, SCUM is an outstanding survival game that challenges players on multiple levels. Its stunning visuals, deep gameplay mechanics, and dynamic world ensure that every moment spent in this unforgiving land feels rewarding and intense. If you are a survival genre enthusiast looking for a game that pushes the boundaries of realism and strategy, SCUM is a must-play. Dive in and experience the thrill of surviving against all odds!

So I've now played a total of 127 hours in this game. It is easily the grindiest of the bigger survival games, even worse than DayZ. Plus, all the niggling little details you have to waste time on in SCUM, like cleaning rags to treat wounds, infections, all the various metabolism and health parameters...those things just are not fun. You waste so much time worrying about those things, and running around for hours on end trying to find something better than a knife or a spear to defend yourself with...it's just not a fun game. I tried, I really did, and we made to the point where we were fairly geared up. but it's just not worth the grind for the relatively little amount of fun it actually is overall.

I've had this game for years. I remember how over-hyped it was. I was showing my friends the cool clothing and water effects.

That was 87 years ago and this game must have a niche community because every time I play it I hate it more than the last. Maybe its better than I remember but I hate it too much to reinstall. I think its mostly just how underwhelming its been. Games have released since TURD released- I mean SCUM, and those games are far superior in every way.

4 hours of game time in the ages that Ive owned this game are a testament to how scummy it really is.

7 years later, and the building interiors are still mostly empty, if they exist in the fist place. Fucking garbage game with near-sighted development. This team couldn't set an objective and complete it if their lives depended on it.

The game lost it focus on survival, it is more an online pvp with survival features instead of survival with pvp features.

You don’t need to worry about survival, your main focus is to make money, farming explosives, guns, ammo to go on pvp.

Again, it is not a survival game after all

More advanced + difficult DayZ. This dev team deserves the support after continued development + promises kept, give it a try my friends! :)

This game has been in development since 2018, nothing has happened and very little has changed.
Feels like I put money in a sports bet when I would know I would lose.

Gun play isn't bad and neither are the building mechanics but hat is all there is to it. This has a the bones of a good game but cant get it together. Overall extremely disappointing but even sadder that this is the trend in gaming now; make something than pretend to work on it for months and have as many buys before full release as possible. I wish Steam would ban games like this or at least keep them from being able to take money until they have a finished product. This is bad for the industry.

Horde spawns are horrible, in no other zombie game does a persistent onlsaught of zombies spawn out of thin air, lazy coding.

survival and base building is 10/10, but the way puppet hordes spawn are severely off putting.
shouldnt get mobbed looting the first lone house I come across lol

i used to love this game. i put in hundreds of hours. I can deal with the cons that agro others, the few things that really chap my hide are:
*Buildings are too similar.
*My boat ALWAYS capsizes when i try to go to Z Sectors.
*Two too many prompts when trying to enter vehicle.

At the moment i cannot recommend this title.

It has a LOT of potential but there are just some things that held me back enjoying this game. Those things were also pretty much evident from the beginning of the game so i did not get far.

The first is the abismal inventory system. Stacking is disabled(??) for certain item that does not make sense. The constant dragging and lack of sorting is also making it hard to enjoy.
The second thing is the lack of food. I have been entirely vegan because the animals do not spawn in a normal way. You have to do a mini game for them to actually spawn, a minigame that you can fail if you take too long. I just expect to find animals running around without having to do that minigame. Apart from the 3 wolves spawning in your near vicinity to kill you.

Hopefully a few patches in this stuff will be improved but it is unclear in what direction the devs want this game to go.

I wish I could say "buy this game" but it just feels so dead now. Community updates are rad and all, the game has come a long was as well. Once it was all I wanted to play, but... its starting to feel like more DLC packs than updates. Things are still broken (such as spawns) and the combat and grind feels old. I keep checking back for some news on a new update or a fix.. but nothing. I hope this game gets the love it deserves soon and I hope I will be eating my words.

Nothing else like it, this game is the Dayz we all wanted. Tons of depth hidden bellow the surface. Its really worth giving the game a serious try, it will grow on you.

New player to SCUM...not new player to survival games..and this game is just not enjoyable. Here's me...parachute in..make bag and spear and bow + arrows...head off to smallest area to find things...meet puppets..get hit a few times...bleed to death..rinse and repeat. Weeee...lovely game if you enjoy just bleeding to death over and over and over again. Never find enough bandages to do anything..and even if i did...no bag space to hold enough to stop bleeding (never have enough to make a bundle...yet)...I understand games are suppose to be hard...but...this game is just ridiculous.

After years in early access, still no hosting your own server.

The game's development hasn't been great and i had put it aside in the hope of eventually hosting my own server with friends. Well it's been some years and still no hosting server.

I can not give this game a positive review after waiting years, with updates that are questionable and sometimes are downright one step forward and two steps back.

The Game is Empty and Void of life, I didn't realize it was an empty 7 year old game before I purchased it, I gave it an honest try and ventured around the map for hours, found absolutely nothing of note. The AI are outdated, they act like something off a N64 game GoldenEye. Even when the game completes it'll never compete with anything new. I wasted More than $20 so you don't have too, I can't refund it because I took to long looking for anything in the game.

this game is runing simulator take to much time to get a car just one big waste of time this game

You know that basic thing that every game that has servers does to allow people to play with their friends?

Well in this game, if you want to play in a server with just you and your buddies and not get nuked by cheaters or have the server wiped whenever the official servers decide they don't like the server that day, you have to RENT a server.

And in their most recent update, they are now saying that it is only "being considered" and that they "can't share more details at this time" because their "primary focus right now is delivering an awesome 1.0 launch".

Yea, so thing about that is part of that "awesome 1.0 launch" is not having telezombies (which they have already said is not going away) and the ability to host your own server.

If both of those things are not part of 1.0, the game sunk at the "Horde" update. Have a lot of hours before they decided to make the world less immersive and more arcade-y. Have zero hours more until I can play on a private server without having to pay a subscription fee that is NOT listed on the store page.

The game mechanics are entirely too difficult.

After playing a short while it felt lonely and boring until i found an amazing server with actual active admins that do great work, it just needs some more pop.
Search for: finland
U also get a welcome pack here which is awesome for starters.

New hunting system sucks bad but the rest of the game is good. PLS fix hunting

Bought this game WAY back when it was just 10 bucks on steam when it first released. It wasnt much of a game then and more of a proof of concept but holy shit has this game come a long way.

It definitely has its flaws and bugs still, and the devs are kinda going in an odd direction with the game rn but it still has promise. If you like games like dayz, 7d2d, rust stuff like that youll find something you enjoy about the game.

One thing I do recommend to players new and old alike, if the jank is getting to much find a decent pvevp server and just enjoy the game.

All in all its probably a 7/10 in most categories.

Best survival game, would be awesome to see some improvements to base building and the anticheat, the cheater problem can really suck at times :(

Just under 400 hours, I have finally given up on scum. I was almost checking the updates on a daily basis, and logging in to try them, which have now become scarcer and scarcer.

I have played this game solo, with friends, both in random servers and even our own server where I experimented with admin controls. Here are my takeaways:

Positives:
Large Map
Intricate systems
Most comprehensive and immersive health system.
Nice gun-play and weapon mechanics
Nice animations.
great survival elements
really fun to play with friends.

Negatives:
Not enough progress or updates
Buggy overall
Buggy zombie spawns
Bad optimization (i have a 4070, i9, and 32GB of ram)
Removed the seaplane (WHY GOD WHY)
Slow skill gain
lackluster hunting mechanic
ALMOST NO ANIMALS
Lackluster farming mechanic
Limited base building components
Clipping issues (weapons, clothing, backpacks, etc)
Attachments often disappear from your weapons.
Lackluster zombie animations.
Zombies do not recoil or react to being shot.

I will check back and try again after a few decent updates.

SCUM is to early access to what I am to a track star: Neither of us are those things.

This game has been in "Early" Access since 2018. That's 7 years after this summer, nearly a decade. At what point do we keep allowing developers to gaslight us by having what amounts to a full game but because it has bugs it's "early access"? This is a full game, with full systems, no missing assets, no areas of the map blocked off because it's "coming soon", etc. What you do have is a mountain of bugs and a very poorly optimized game.

Honestly Steam should lead the charge in setting a time limit to early access. Way too many games do this.

Edit to respond to the Developer:

I appreciate you taking the time to reply and that your reply was thought out. Unfortunately I feel compelled to point out some flaws in what you said:

By your example as long as a developer has some sort of future plans then the game can stay in early access indefinitely. To use a more relevant example, Stellaris is about to enter its 4.0 stage. The game has been redesigned from the ground up that many times. They don't try to pretend it's early access, to make us feel like we're somehow testing some new game and should be okay with any egregious issues. This is what I'm talking about.

You could have spent the last 5 years optimizing the game and then releasing new and fun updates. Instead you are essentially using us as free testing, something that used to be an actual paid job in the industry. I don't think it's right and nothing you said truly changes that opinion.

Where are all the zombies at? four hours not one zombie appears outside of military bases.
why are the mech's so damn unbreakable, it took me 30 or more grenades to destroy ONE and they seem to be immune to the EMP grenades which i call bull are they organic or somthing? why does the EMP have no affect on those MACHINES? are the developers purposely trying to make this game a PVP only???

It used to be pretty fun but adding an economy really ruined the game, just loot random garbage until you can afford the most absurd guns and cars etc.

The whole zombie game looting feeling and enjoyment of finding gear is gone enitrely, replaced by a boring grind.

In short, just dont waste your time here.

This is the most in depth survival zombie game I have played. The attention to detail on the different biometric stats and other stats is insane. With that said I just started playing again for the first time in over a year and there are some glitches and bugs still present since the last time I played. Also the lack of a multiplayer that only you and your friends can play is disappointing. Sometimes I'd rather not play with or against a bunch of randoms as the game can get pretty toxic.

This game has loads of items. it is very detailed about survival, like different foods give you different nutrition and it not all good effects!. Item detail, like gun attachments are insane, and it all makes difference. I like that there is interesting places to go to and not all of them will welcome you unprepared! Personally for me this is best survival game ever.

Started with high potential, but pumping out constant paid DLC before finishing the game feels bad. They could put these improvements in the game, but instead choosing to nickel and dime players while taking longer actually release the game.

what i want is the sounds to be fixed it may have been by now but i seriously doubt it hearing zombies on every level of a bunker as if its right beside you is very annoying and its not very immersive shouldn't hear their footsteps and they should not hear mine its a bunker and why do i hear nature dude it should be as quiet as a rat fart down there i should only hear whats on the same level as me and only if its somewhat near me that has been my only problem with the game ever since i began playing and its why i don't play it the sounds need to be fixed big time

This game doesn't know what it wants or who it wants to please. Every time they add a new feature they nerf to it a point where its no longer fun. Most of this is due to feedback from a small, vocal part of the community just not being that good at the game. On top of this, most of the gameplay mechanics have no loop or continuity. Nothing compliments the other thing.

For example, they lock the only small end-game content behind stupid real-life 24 hour timers. Take keycards. Keycards unlock killboxes. There's two keycard spawns on the entire server and it takes 24 hours to reset the spawn. Not even the devs play their own game that much that they can farm keycards. The problem was squads hoarding keycards, so the solution was to make only one squad who can stay up until 3am be the only squad that has keycards? Make it make sense

Don't even get me started on the horrendous drophsip problem. The worst problem this game has is cheaters coming in to your base and clearing your stuff out. Ok fair enough, many games have this. So what did they do? They add an in-game feature where a dropship just comes and destroys your base when you aren't online. You can't make this stuff up. Don't worry, you can build a rocket turret to protect your base by simply farming KEYCARDS to acquire rockets which aren't actually in the killboxes. Also the rocket turret will destroy your base also.
TLDR: game is full of gameplay mechanics that don't work together or at all

Amazing game 10/10. Great blend of survival and crafting/ base building. This game has something for everyone be it a pvp experience for hardcore players or just a friendly pve with your mates. Cant wait for 1.0 to release and see where the devs take this game in the future.

Incroyable, je n’ai jamais joué à un jeu de survie aussi poussé ! C’est simplement fou et les graphisme pour un jeu en ligne sont magnifique. Fan de jeux de survie et/ou zombie ? Achetez sans réfléchir, difficulté élevé ne pensez pas foncez dans le tas avec une mitraillette, ne serait-ce que recharger votre arme nécessite de retirer votre chargeur et y placer les balles une par une… pareil pour ce qui est de la trouver le chargeur ne sera que rarement fournit avec, diabloliqye et plein de RÉEL défi ! 17/20 minimum… certain comme moi le classerai bien mieux ! FONCEZ !!!

Handcuffed and thrown out of an aircraft, you struggle to break free and parachute to the ground before death. After landing, many dangers await you. What could it be?, a bear, puppet, boar, wolves, other prisoners. Fighting mechs, infection, elements and starvation. SCUM is a survival game unlike any other!! All around a good. Definitely keeps you on the edge of your seat!!!! One of my top ten survival games.

No option to really play the game besides solo or private servers as official ones are played with hackers/cheaters with no admin watch for said hackers on the official servers. Private servers are normally ran by tyrants who play the game and give their friends anything and everything they can. Most of the cheaters on private servers are protected by said admins and you cant call anyone out as its against most server rules. You have to open a ticket on discord, which rarely gets answered. You have no option to report a cheater to the game DEVS on a private server as it has to go through the server admins.... Vicious cycle and after playing across 5 private servers, its all the same and they end the same, which is normally you looking and hoping for a decent server that doesn't tolerate toxic behavior and cheating.... Wouldn't recommend to anyone.

This game is great and continues to get better. Can't wait for 1.0

I tried very hard. i tried to survive in this game. i think i'll stop playing this game. i have no reason to explain because others have already said it.

I don't know why this game is still time wasting simulator, but on the default single player mode the amount of loot in the world is next to nothing. You could run around for hours, go through towns and such, and die from starvation with a backpack and no weapons. It's most empty survival game I've ever played.

Pretty solid game until it quit working. Devs were no help at all. At least I got 500 hours before it stopped working. Maybe it will be fixed with next update.

No, the game is bad, I feel like the developer have somehow bitten off more then they can chew, there is plenty, and I mean PLENTY of stuff in the game, from basic survival tools to suppressor. And there is a lot of stat for your character, it can be so detailed that you will need to manage your vitamins, minerals. There is zombies and war machines, the multiplayer mechanism is also bad, where you have to join server instead of playing it with your friend, you will enter every server with almost nothing, while others might be already obtaining rifles, and it is somewhat boring if you play the game by yourself, so, no, don't buy it

I like the mechanics of the game and it is just a great game to play in general.

nice game to play with friends, exploring world and killing puppets(zombies) is fun for every one.

polished turd that has terrible core mechanics including server netcode, game will never be at an acceptable state. another early access game lost its direction and squandered its progress.

games hardcore in a good way. ive enjoyed my time so far to the max. if you like survival games that are pretty in depth i think this one is one of the more in depth ones ive tried. it quickly became my favorite survival game.

This game is hard--largely because the user interface gives very few clues as to how to do things. Watch some videos, or bumble around, the choice is yours. For example, you don't have to CTRL+click multiple items to select them in building or treating, just click them. You actually have to drag the meat onto the meat slot in the recipe menu, stuff like that. Good luck, have fun!

First of all, I love SCUM and every hour I’ve spent in the game during the Early Access phase.
I primarily play PvE. A while ago, I forced myself to take a break after burning out on the game, though that wasn’t the game’s fault. Recently, I’ve jumped back in after some updates to test new settings in a server environment and to gather ideas for a long-term run with friends when version 1.0 is released.

This has led me to some serious concerns regarding the release because, in my opinion, the game seems to have lost focus on its strengths.
What are its strengths?

SCUM excels in creating immersion like few other games. It makes me feel connected to my character as I play. This connection stems from the synergy between the skill system, metabolism system, realistic graphics, and detailed mechanics in the game world.
The progression from being a loser inmate wearing nothing but rags to a well-equipped survivor with a three-story house and garden on a lawless map is what keeps the dopamine flowing.
Another strength has been the meaningful updates and content expansions during Early Access, which have already provided hundreds of hours of fun.
I understand that the game has a strong PvP focus, but I believe many of my concerns are applicable to both PvE and PvP scenarios. So why can’t I recommend the game right now?

- Threats
Threats are what give survival mechanics their purpose. These could be direct threats like puppets or more subtle ones like harsh weather or resource scarcity.
The recent changes to direct threats are, frankly, baffling. The new encounter system for puppets, even after tweaking the settings, is one of the most uninspired mechanics I’ve seen in a game. I understand that performance optimization might be part of the reasoning, but I’d prefer a semi-optimized game that’s fun over a better-optimized one that bores me.
Every scope I find can be sold without hesitation, making the cooking system irrelevant because I can easily afford food. Puppets only spawn close enough for iron sights, so ranged weapons lose much of their value. And whose idea was it to include an unkillable enemy in a survival game?
Having a massive map with uninhabited forests and open fields isn’t inherently an issue. The problem arises when these areas lack meaningful threats.
Right now, it feels almost impossible for a moderately experienced player to die (outside of PvP). As a result, the dopamine rush from overcoming challenges has completely vanished for me. I believe the devs need to go back to the drawing board and fully utilize the game engine to reintroduce genuine, immersive threats.

- Usability and UI
I acknowledge that many of these issues are growing pains, and UI improvements are planned. The updates so far have already made noticeable improvements. But at version 0.96, it’s baffling that the game’s interface remains so clunky.
After just 1–2 hours of gameplay, I could write an essay on how the game’s usability could be improved. From missing keybinds to inconsistent controls for characters and vehicles, this is my second biggest gripe with the game.
Try explaining to a new player why you accelerate a car with “W” but have to scroll the mouse wheel upward to pedal a bike, after wondering why you’re the world’s slowest cyclist. Or why your character switches from third to first person with a pistol by right-clicking, but the game expects you to aim a bow perfectly from third person without a crosshair.
The most frustrating part for me is that many of these issues seem like they’d be easy fixes.

- Economy, Balance, and Explanations
I’m the least critical about this point because I believe it can be resolved by giving more control to server owners to fine-tune their settings. My wish list includes more precise loot settings and—most importantly—clear, detailed descriptions of server settings.
In their current state, the descriptions might as well not exist—they’re that unhelpful.

I could go on, but overall, I cannot recommend this game in its current 0.96 state as it seems to have lost its way. My recommendation is to wait for the 1.0 release and then check reviews from long-time players.

Sure, it’s nice that I can paint my weapon now. But that doesn’t help when I spend hours crossing empty fields and wandering through desolate towns without ever needing to draw it.

The puppet system is trash and you can't host your own server.

This is the game I have most hours of any in my library and through it's development in all throughout its early access years the game has improved in some aspects but deteriorated in many, the word optimization for developers has become cutting off features and changing good mechanics of game that made many players support this game and have others to join. There are many concerns as mentioned by many in reviews of the game but for me the biggest concert right now is "new"(in quotes because this mechanic has been implemented more than a year ago and still devs decline to revert it) puppet/zombie spawning system which spawns zombies randomly even after clearing off an area devs say they did this for optimization, sure but now you have no use of rifles as zombies only spawn close and feels very forced than organic like it was before.
The new horde system and zombies jumping through doors and windows is very nice but they again spawn randomly in there even if you cleared those buildings.
Before you would just clear off a town, village and loot it but now you cleared a police station walk to steps away from where you just killed a zombie and voila there's another one at same spot. This game even though it's many shortcomings still had that immersions for people to keep coming back to it but now the core part of it that is zombies are totally messed up. Hence I wouldn't recommend anyone to get the game in it's current state or unless zombies are reverted.