SCUM
Skip · Shooter · 2025
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 26, under the fair line, at $44.99.
- Reviews▼
- 74% of 127,859
- Genre rank
- Top 67% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews, Length unknown
Why
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Time and effort
- To 100%
- 34.2h
- Achievements
- 69
Price and sales
- Sales
- 77 on record
- Typical cut
- 40% off
- Steam low
- $13.39 April 2019
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 12,448 now
- Recent reviews
- 71% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 38% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
85% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 77 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Conan Exiles Enhanced ($39.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Miscreated ($29.99, scores 11).
More about SCUM
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 30 percent of the 6,160 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
127,859 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 5 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 16 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB / AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB, 80 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
SCUM scores 26/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/513710/scumReviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.