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SCUM

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Developer
Gamepires
Released
Jun 17, 2025
Steam reviews
74% of players recommend it, from 127,323 reviews — Steam calls that “Mostly Positive”
Tags
ActionAdventureIndie
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On Linux, Steam Deck and Steam Machine

Blocked by anti-cheatSteam Machine: Unsupported

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.

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News

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