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SCUM
Developer Gamepires
Scum is a 2025 open world survival game developed and published by the Croatian studio Gamepires for Windows. It was initially released by Devolver Digital under the Steam Early Access program. The game is described as a "prison riot survival game". It entered Steam's early access program on 29 August 2018, with a full release following on 17 June 2025. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
444 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
46
Mixed
176 positive · 203 negative
95% range 41–51%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 176 | 203 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 6 | 3 | 53 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 3 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
34,770 of 47,802 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
43% recommend · 121 yes, 160 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 281 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (94,291 of 127,447 positive).
Players praise the game's deep survival mechanics and detailed systems. [1][2][3] Many reviewers criticize the prevalence of cheaters and persistent bugs. [4][5][6] Some players oppose the implementation of ID and biometric collection for anti-cheat. [7][8]
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Representative posts
- [1]
In terms of Survival/Scavenger/Shooter/PVE/Zombies this is the BEST game out there in terms of detail and content, just surviving is fun, nutrients system, detailed injury and sickness system. Just wish they focused more into the single player, Player vs AI aspect, more geared AI running around the map or even AI bases. Because like in any Online PVP game right now the cheaters ruins everything. Focus more in Single …
- [4]
This is a review from a player with over 12k hours playtime in this game across multiple accounts: I love this game! I’ve been playing from 0.3 and have seen communities grow and crumble. Everything was fine until about 0.7. The game was far from finished and we were seeing a bright future ahead. Then came the cheaters. It got worse and worse. The big anti cheater alliances formed and more cheaters got attracted …
- [7]
I enjoyed SCUM. But I REFUSE to support or recommend ANY Game that decides to implement ANY form of ID and Biometric collection. No level of this is acceptable, there is no exception and this does not need to become normal. Go to Youtube and search for : SCUM & Playsafe ID: Anti-cheat and privacy Q & A ,watch the devs video on what they are implementing. This does NOT belong in gaming in any form.
- [5]
As an admin of one of the servers, I have to say that at the moment this game makes almost no sense — apart from its great graphics. The biggest problem is cheaters. They are everywhere: opening locks in seconds, using scripts to locate players, boxes, and other in-game elements. This completely kills the purpose of the gameplay, especially on servers focused on survival, competition, and long-term progression. On …
- [16]
As much as I want to recommend SCUM, I can’t do so in good conscience. The fundamentals are there, but that’s all they are—fundamentals. This game was not ready for a 1.0 launch, and it’s difficult not to view the release as a management-driven decision aimed at boosting sales rather than reflecting the game’s actual level of completion. Since launch, patches have been mostly corrective, and the roadmap the …
Summarised from 34 of the 324 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked SCUM talk about deep survival mechanics with detailed injury and sickness systems; those who didn't talk about cheaters ruin the experience, especially in PVP. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The game was named as one of the best indie games of PAX East 2018 by Game Informer. It received similar attention from GameSpot, listing it as among the most noteworthy games of PAX East 2018. The game sold over 250,000 copies within its first 24 hours in early access, 700,000 in its first week, and over one million sales by the third week. As of October 2026, an estimated 7.9 million copies of the game have been sold.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 444 · most liked firstI enjoyed SCUM. But I REFUSE to support or recommend ANY Game that decides to implement ANY form of ID and Biometric collection. No level of this is acceptable, there is no exception and this does not need to become normal. Go to Youtube and search for : SCUM & Playsafe ID: Anti-cheat and privacy Q & A ,watch the devs video on what they are implementing. This does NOT belong in gaming in any form.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →⟡ System welcomes all its users on System's BlueSky account! ⟡ Reupload overview of SQQ's full room in Regrowth - Scum Villain's Self Saving System fan-game. #svsss #ScumVillainsSelfSavingSystem
neutral · AI labelView post →Rebel Scum, a game about punching thinly metaphorized space Republicans in the face, technically broke Roll20's Product Standards Guidelines for "overt political agendas or views." Censoring political art does the fascists' job for them, no matter how staunchly Roll20 proclaims 'no politics!'
neutral · AI labelView post →As an admin of one of the servers, I have to say that at the moment this game makes almost no sense — apart from its great graphics. The biggest problem is cheaters. They are everywhere: opening locks in seconds, using scripts to locate players, boxes, and other in-game elements. This completely kills the purpose of the gameplay, especially on servers focused on survival, competition, and long-term progression. On top of that, there is no real development of the game. The same bugs have been…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You invest days of your life on the server grinding with teammates, stacking up and enjoying every aspect and every minute of the game, just to have a random guy with improvised stuff running around lock picking golden locks on ur base, which is the best lock in the game u could have btw, in seconds like its nothing. Its like these guys dont want their game to be played. Completely ruined with the most dumbest thing, congratz.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Scum Villain fan-game character line-up [part 1] (ㅅ´ ˘ `) #svsss #ScumVillainsSelfSavingSystem
neutral · AI labelView post →✧ Regrowth - Scum Villain's Self-Saving System fan-game ✧ Shen Qingqiu's full room overview [location 1.3] + approximate screen view! #svsss #gamedev #pixel
neutral · AI labelView post →I got the game after Full Version Release, so I dont know how it was before. I mostly enjoyed a lot of it. It is a bit like DayZ, but not that outdated, The crafting is nice, the visuals are great, the mechanics are mostly fun. If you know what to do (and the game DOES provide you with hints) you won't die of starvation or infections. You can find plenty of good stuff with ease and patience. However, sadly there are a lot of things that spoil the fun: 1) Mechs They can shoot through solid…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it is perhaps not healthy, but it *is* cathartic to play a video game whose entire ethos is DIE SCREAMING, FASCIST SCUM MOTHERFUCKERS
positive · AI labelView post →After so many years and game finally seeing V1.0 still full of bugs instead of sorting problems we getting updates which completely ruins the gam and paid dlc which nothing else but clothes ... devs interested in only extra penny making not actually fixing the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They should try fixing their janky ass game before selling cosmetic DLC, money grabbing pigs :D
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As much as I want to recommend SCUM, I can’t do so in good conscience. The fundamentals are there, but that’s all they are—fundamentals. This game was not ready for a 1.0 launch, and it’s difficult not to view the release as a management-driven decision aimed at boosting sales rather than reflecting the game’s actual level of completion. Since launch, patches have been mostly corrective, and the roadmap the developers shared at the start of the year has yet to materialize in any meaningful…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the most stupid concept of a game i have ever seen. why do you make it impossible to play a casual mode with your friend and have to either spend 10 hours to set up your server or "rent a server" to play a game and don;t even own the map unless you keep paying for it? and why do you spawn randomly on a map WHEN YOU ARE TRYING TO PLAY WITH YOUR FRIENDS? AT LEAST LET US HAVE A SANDBOX THAT CAN BE PLAYED WITH FRIENDS, STOP MAKING PEOPLE RENT YOUR DAMN SERVER WHEN WE ALREADY PAID FOR THE DAMN GAME.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I will preface the following by saying I have had many good hours in this game otherwise I would not have racked up 6500 hours, but, the last few months, weeks, but in particular days what has transpired with the game, the one thing we have all become too accustomed to, the update, a hotfix and hotfix to the hotfix, and hotfix to the hotfix of the hotfix which still ultimately fixes nothing and long standing in MOST cases for YEARS, the most important bugs are never addressed or truly fixed,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As an old player who has been playing SCUM since [September 18, 2024], I wrote this text today not to vent my emotions, but to record a disappointing official interactive experience. [The cause of the incident] Just a few days ago, I found that my SCUM account was banned. My first reaction was confusion, because I had never used any cheating software and had not violated the rules of the game. I contacted the official support team of SCUM (Bohemia Interactive Support) at the first time to try…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not fit for the title of 1.0 whatsoever as it's a grindy, basic open world, greedy, buggy mess. I mean... locking a watch behind a paywall? Seriously? Yes I have a ton of hours on this game, No I do not recommend it. This game is my longest hours spent on a survival game. But I can't seem to enjoy this game with it's tedious mechanics any longer. Each update to this game seems to further strip the game of further enjoyability and some problems in the games aspects seem to get ignored.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I used to love this game, but as long as the new spawn system is there I can't recommend this game ,because it just isn't fun anymore. Current spawn system really breaks the immersion and makes tactical gameplay in PVE non-existent. With the old spawn system going in to any poi required at least some kind of thought like scoping from distance, clearing the land in front of the poi and then proceeding to clear nearby streets before entering desired buildings. But with the current one it's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was once a great game, until the original developers left, and instead of enabling mods and letting the community improve the game, the Dunning-Kruger developers are an effective malware on everything except pay button. They're real good at making those.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →identity collection obfuscated by fearmongering "oooh, if you dont sign up your game may be filled with hackers and cheaters" hard ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ pass
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honest Review Revisited – 95 Hours of Playtime I originally reviewed SCUM at around 24 hours of gameplay. Back then I said the game had incredible potential, some of the deepest survival systems on the market, but lacked content, direction, and meaningful reasons to keep playing. Developers replied saying more was coming and hoped players like me would return. Well, I did. I'm now sitting at roughly 95 hours played, and honestly my opinion is worse than before. I am not hating on the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have over 1100 hours in this game, and it's amazing - mechanics, the health sim part, the combat (most of the time), the ever-annoying stamina issues, etc. - I love the way it all hurts me, so to speak. What I cannot understand or accept is that the devs are now pay-walling basic things. Want patches customization for the squad? 7 EUR. Want flags? Better furniture? Custom looks? Pay. Pay. Pay. What is this, the SIMS? I get it that you are drunk on the game's overall success and want even…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a piece of ♥♥♥♥. Let me talk you through it. Join a Beginner server. Spend a week or two figuring the game mechanics out. One random day you stop running to look in your inventory, you crumple to the ground dead. Some guy who has 10,000 rep points shoots you from a quarter mile away with a scoped rifle. So far you've only been able to make a makeshift gun that loads like a black powder rifle that takes like 20 seconds to reload one shot. Jump in chat and tell guy off for even being…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I used to love playing SCUM, I played for thousands of hours even with the game issues, because it was FUN and a challenge, now I don't. Ever since the Jagex corporate takeover in 2023 SCUM play has been going to crap. They essentially forced Tomislav out in 2025 which took away the vision and goals of what SCUM was and was supposed to become. They then created the alot of the current mess of a game by changing an amazing though still buggy game to a game geared mainly towards lining their own…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Are Trump's lies reported as such? Are his wild exaggerated numbers corrected? Nope! Here's the problem. It's like a sports game *SLAM!* *ATTACK* *SCUM*
neutral · AI labelView post →Game is beautiful but gameplay loop is trash. Zero dev support. More effort being put into microtransactions, cosmetics, and things no one asked for instead of actually fixing the game. Items falling through the map, vehicle damage, map glitches when building, etc are HUGE issues. Even worse for server owners thinking of opening a server. You will constantly deal with complaining players due to the netcode and tick rates that aren't optimized.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →caps makes this look like a video game dialog box Consuming ALGAL SCUM will boost your HP but temporarily lower your defense. Consume ALGAL SCUM? WATER is used to craft potions.
neutral · AI labelView post →Honestly, it was difficult to say for a long while. This game is super fun in all the right ways, all the way up until you fire a weapon. For instance, the first time I ever fired I didn't even really need to. I was just behind a zombie that had a hiking backpack and I really wanted to make sure I got him. There was nothing around, no zombie for miles (I made sure to clear first), so I confidently went and popped him with one shot. Bang. Dead. Suddenly, literally out of nowhere, 12 zombies…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So, this is very hard to say with 2,500 hours on the game. But I am just giving up on this game. 1.0 has been a unfinished game release. The BUGS are unacceptable. In this game you walk, walk, walk, and walk. Looting like crazy for a stupid bug making your chest disappear. You can loose 100 hours of game play with 1 bug. I gave it a try again. Walked 5 days until I had a car. Now driving and 20 KM/h through the city my 100% health car just exploded after hitting something.... WTF???? The AI…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I do not recommend this game. The developers is collecting extensive personal information under the pretense of anti cheat and safety measures, which raises serious privacy concerns. "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45TUExH5uZ4"
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to like this game but I can’t. The grind is ridiculous. Don't buy this game unless you have no job, friends, or family.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I cannot in good conscience recommend this game. The devs are delaying updates, gaslighting the fanbase, deleting posts in discord and pretending everything is ok. The game should still be in early access, horrible.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SCUM is that game that starts with a lot of great promise, does some really cool things, and then at some point just completely diverges from what it was doing. Instead, it starts hyperfocusing on random things, entirely forgetting about integral systems or useful content. It begins providing huge amounts of things no one asked for while neglecting basic gameplay elements until it eventually is some hodgepodge mess of systems with no coherency. SCUM is insanely detailed in certain elements of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have approximately 530 hours in SCUM and have invested significantly more than just the purchase price of the base game. I have purchased multiple DLCs, operated two private servers, paid recurring server rental costs, and also paid for third-party server-management services such as WhalleyBot. My experience ultimately ended with what the game identifies as a “Banned by Developers” ban. As a direct consequence, I had to cancel my most recent server. What concerns me most is not simply the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So many unlikeable character in this Arsenal vs Scum game it's really hard to want anyone to win. Fernandes, Garnacho, Arteta, Havertz, Martinez. A real assault on the eyes.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve had some genuinely great moments in SCUM, heart-pounding firefights, long base raids that took hours, and figuring out clever ways to crack bases that seemed impossible. The potential was enormous, but over time, the developers kept pushing the game in directions that hurt more than helped. Systems nobody asked for were added, features that players actually enjoyed were stripped away, and the overall experience became needlessly complicated. What was once a fun, gritty survival game now…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you'd like to play a game where you get to punch spacenazis in the face, you can find it in our shop! Rebel Scum 2e, available now! tabletopbookshelf.com/products/reb...
neutral · AI labelView post →Yes! Let’s Squid Game this shit!! Fucking degenerates. A new low every single fucking day. Scum of the Earth. 🤮
neutral · AI labelView post →I've played quite a bit to get a feel for the game. I've enjoyed getting to know it more over time. It certainly has been engaging. The reason for the negative review howerever is due to a serious bug that the devs seem unable to fix. Sometimes when you die you cannot recover your body. It just isn't there. You get your weapons (what was in your hands / back holster slots) but the body itself is just gone. I've had it happen repeatedly around bunkers. I have lost multiple sets of full gear.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The development process is just too slow. SCUM took so much time to get where it is that everything now feels clunky and outdated. It has lost its original vision, and instead of fixing core issues, progress just feels stagnant. It’s hard to recommend a game that feels old before it’s even fully finished.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not worth your money. The game constantly crashes with fatal errors on both official and private servers, and many bugs persist from wipe to wipe. The latest patch has driven a lot of players away, including those with 3000+ hours in the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →These guys break their game more than fix it.. every update rolls out new problems for people.. constantly changing things that make this game what it is.. You couldn't even heal yourself for over a year and a half... seriously.. they broke their own healing system... They removed vehicles to only bring back one that got changed, for over a year there were just no cars in it, after releasing with like 10 vehicles... They changed their zombie spawns and now hordes just spawn on your head.. Now…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Your analogy to a game of about committing hate crimes against Sikhs is disingenuous. Canada is a real country. Sikhs are real people. "Republikans" are not, even if it's clear whom they represent. Such a game would be explicitly, overtly hateful in a way that Rebel Scum straightforwardly is not.
neutral · AI labelView post →Game was fine until I upgraded my Graphics. That's when I found out about the ongoing problem where people with higher end Graphic get a D3D lost error and hard system freeze that requires reboot. This is not a QOL fix, game is unplayable. Crickets for Devs. Waste of money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game became a DLC hell also keep ind mind in a review the dev says the DLC's don’t give any gameplay advantage https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198034818371/recommended/513710 "Regarding the DLCs, they are purely cosmetic, optional, and don’t give any gameplay advantage. They also help support ongoing development and new content." BUT THEY ADDED CAMOUFLAGE SKINS Camouflage is a huge advantage in this game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yes. It’s a game to them. Same with guys like David Axelrod. He literally said Scott Jennings is a great friend of his who is just playing a part on TV. Scum.
neutral · AI labelView post →Last night I got to run Scum & Villainy. FitD is my RPG favorite pair of jeans. I feel comfortable and am getting better teaching it in play. All but one player was new and they grasped fast. I can’t go this long again not running my favorite system. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
neutral · AI labelView post →@drivethrurpg.com & Roll20, do the right thing and reinstate @9thlevelgames.bsky.social's Rebel Scum immediately. It's your policy that needs to change, not the game. I
neutral · AI labelView post →this game started out great, lost its whole direction and is now a steaming pile of ♥♥♥♥
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The UK government is spying on the Madleen. A ship of humanitarians attempting to get life-saving aid into Gaza. The Israeli fascist state has a target on the ship, and the scum Labour government is now spying on the ship for the Israeli state. STARMER IS SCUM. Game over for him.
neutral · AI labelView post →This game releases more DLC than good updates. 6 months into 1.0 update and the game still feels like early access. Garbage devs
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's unlikely that the game developers will ever see this message. But even if they do, I doubt they'll care anymore because they've clearly stopped caring about the game itself. Instead, it seems like they're only interested in making money by selling cheats on the black market. This game honestly had the potential to become something great—far better than games like DayZ or Rust. Unfortunately, terrible developers have turned it into a dead game. After all these years since release, the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →4/? Off brand Star Wars? Yes please! Scum and Villainy is a Forged in the Dark game and a fun night!
neutral · AI labelView post →Yay, SCUM is now partnering with PlaysafeID, screw the UK. China at least didn't export its ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ worldwide.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In terms of Survival/Scavenger/Shooter/PVE/Zombies this is the BEST game out there in terms of detail and content, just surviving is fun, nutrients system, detailed injury and sickness system. Just wish they focused more into the single player, Player vs AI aspect, more geared AI running around the map or even AI bases. Because like in any Online PVP game right now the cheaters ruins everything. Focus more in Single Player/Coop experiences.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I haven't played SCUM in years. And honestly, that's exactly why I'm writing this review. I played SCUM back in Early Access. I genuinely enjoyed it. It was rough around the edges, sure, but there was something compelling about it. It felt like a survival game with an actual identity rather than another Rust clone wearing a different hat. Fast-forward to 2026, and I decided to see what had happened to the game. Jesus ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Christ. Apparently SCUM has spent the years since I last played…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We are live! And playing more SCUM! If you haven’t seen this game, you can’t miss this!! It’s hilarious ┆ ┆ ╰┈➤ˎˊ˗ twitch.tv/curly ╰┈➤ˎˊ˗ youtube.com/@curlybdancer
positive · AI labelView post →Short Ver: Try it if you’re curious. Skip it if you’re not. It’s one of those things that sits in the middle: interesting enough to give it a shot, not essential enough to lose sleep over. ---- Long Ver: SCUM is basically what happens when someone looks at survival games and says, “What if we added more systems?” and then refuses to stop talking for the next 47 hours. On the surface, it looks like a survival game. But underneath that innocent disguise is a full-blown life simulator…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The most unrealistic "realistic" survival game out there. Zombies are spawning literally next to you and you're not able to do anything same applies for the NPCs which are way deadlier. I'm not even talking about "Suicide puppets" spawning literally next door while you're in a bunker and you die due to that. How does clothing and everything stored inside them get BROKEN (even firearms) by a puppet hitting you with its BARE HANDS? I could go on and on. Very disappointed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very Disappointing I really wanted to like SCUM, but after spending hours in it, I’m left more frustrated than entertained. The concept is great survival, realism, and a massive open world but the execution feels half-finished. The game is buggy, unbalanced, and poorly optimized. Basic mechanics like inventory management and crafting feel like chores rather than challenges. The developers promised deep survival systems, but what we have instead is constant micromanagement of hunger,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Schrödinger's Scum Fan Claims that last night’s game didn’t matter to them but has also been whinging about it non-stop for the past 13 hours #LUFC
neutral · AI labelView post →
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