SCUM
Skip · Shooter · 2025
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $44.99.
- Reviews
- 74% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 66% over the last 30 days against 74% all-time.
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
April 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $13.39. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 76 in the 8 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre. 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).
Players rate it 74 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 66 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 18 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 107 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 30 percent of the 6,152 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
126,862 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
The drop-off
85% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
8,535 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
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SCUM scores 26/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). 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/scumThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 11, price as of Sep 24.
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