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SCUM

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.

Developer
Gamepires
Publisher
Gamepires
Franchise
Gamepires
Release date
Jun 17, 2025
Store page updated
Aug 25, 2026
Price
$44.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

55.7/ 100

Based on 391 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😐 Mixed 59% of 545
All time 🙂 Mostly Positive 74% of 127,045
“game is fun enough to pass time”
游戏可玩性还是挺高的,但是希望可以出一个好友联机的沙盒模式,不想玩服务器的PVP模式,只想和朋友一起搜物资,建家,但是很可惜没有这个功能

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+0.19
Freedom +1.89
“freedom to choose old spawn system for tactical gameplay” (23)

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+0.15
World +3.15
“insanely detailed character health and environmental systems” (26)

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+1.32
Volume +1.97

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+1.50
Visuals +3.18
“visuals are great and crafting is nice” (23)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
+0.23
Playing together +1.17
“heart-pounding firefights and long base raids with friends” (17)

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
-3.50
Monetization -3.02

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
-2.83
Developer support -2.19
“forced out original dev, minimum fixes, profit-focused” (39)

🔒 3 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update DLC
40%60%80%100%
Aug 2018Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 535 reviews, peak 38/day
02550
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 391 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English36%
  • Chinese20%
  • Russian12%
  • German7%
  • Portuguese5%
  • French5%
  • Other15%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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