No, they DON’T DROP ANY LOOT, unlike the zombies you kill. You’re a convict who has been tossed onto a region of land with a bunch of other convicts to survive for ratings on a TV show, scrounge weapons, food and other items to survive in the face of zombies, other players wanting to gank your ass, starvation, dehydration and giant mechs that want to kill you for going in to restricted areas. Knowledge and skill are your ultimate weapons for long-term survival.”īasically, it’s another in a long line of zombie fighting survival games. This is the question I have been asking myself over and over, “What is SCUM?” The official blurb from the developer: “ SCUM is an open-world survival game with unprecedented levels of character customization, control, and progression. Welcome to SCUM: a frustrating experience that will make you question why you bothered with the download, but then get sucked in and have zero idea why you’re enjoying a game that is all about nothing. Then, I hear a shot and all of a sudden, I’m dead. So, I start to run it around in circles, making decisive blows when I see an opportunity like a boxer getting in solid left and rights. That’s what we call zombies these days, apparently. Finally, I reach my first town, unsure of what to expect. I walk, then run to the nearest town I can find, though the “map” is of little help to tell me where I should be going.

Not something that’s very common for playing a game, but something about knowing you have no starting weapons and no food makes me extremely edgy. Genre(s): Action Adventure, Survival, Multiplayerįrom the moment I dropped on the “island”, I had a sense of anxiety. SCUM hits somewhere in the middle and after thirty hours, I don’t know WHY I’m still playing this game. Like on that bottle of Vodka to get blackout drunk so you don’t have to remember the terrible game you just sunk ten hours in to for no reason. Early Access games are really exciting to sink your teeth into with the promise of new and exciting adventures, hard-fought battles and a sense of accomplishment.īut, these games can often be fairly trash from the outset and make you wish you had spent your time and money elsewhere.

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