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.

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“Scum has a rare crafting system, a wonder of the modern age perhaps, that doesn’t force players to jump through hoops or spend hours engaged in busywork. And it does this all while maintaining an air of realism.”
Rock Paper Shotgun

Just Updated

Into The Wild is here. This free update brings every prisoner new ways to hunt, fish, farm, and stay alive.

  • Hunter’s Grotto: Gear up, take on new quests, and find other hunters before heading out

  • Hunting Upgrades: Track animal trails, place bait feeders, and earn higher-quality meat through cleaner kills

  • Fishing Upgrades: Find more fishing spots, read clearer cues, and plan around catches where size and weight matter

  • New Smoker: Preserve meat for longer and stretch your food supply further

  • Farming Rebalance: Grow crops faster and earn better yields as your Farming skill improves

Read the full May update notes for every addition, fix, and balance adjustment.

About This Game

Welcome to SCUM Island!

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.

A Survival Game With Teeth

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.

The Island

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?

Key Features

  • 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

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This game contains mature content including violence, blood and gore, nudity (which can be disabled in game), alcohol and some drugs.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 64-bit
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-4430 / AMD FX-6300
    • Memory: 16 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB / AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    • Storage: 80 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: SSD Required
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 64-bit
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K / AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    • Memory: 16 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2060 / AMD Radeon RX 5700
    • DirectX: Version 12
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    • Storage: 80 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: SSD Required

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Mostly Positive (37,472 reviews)
Total reviews in all languages: 96,536 Mostly Positive
Recent Reviews in all languages: 407 Mixed




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