SCUM

- Developer
- Gamepires
- Released
- Jun 17, 2025
- Steam reviews
- 74% of players recommend it, from 127,323 reviews — Steam calls that “Mostly Positive”
- Tags
- ActionAdventureIndie
On Linux, Steam Deck and Steam Machine
Its anti-cheat (Easy Anti-Cheat) is not working on Linux for this game, so it won't run properly even where Proton otherwise could handle it. Easy Anti-Cheat runs on Linux in 144 other games Sifter tracks — so this is a per-game decision rather than a limit of the anti-cheat.
Valve rates it Unsupported on Steam Machine. Valve marks it Unsupported on SteamOS.
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About this game
The developer's description, from the game's Steam store page.

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
System requirements
As Steam lists them.
Windows
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 RTX 2060 / AMD Radeon RX 5700
- DirectX
- Version 12
- Network
- Broadband Internet connection
- Storage
- 80 GB available space
- Additional Notes
- SSD Required
Downloadable content
Steam lists 22 items of downloadable content for this game.
All 22 on Steam ↗News
What SCUM's studio and the outlets Valve syndicates on Steam have said recently.
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