Games like Scum's Errand
If Scum's Errand is your kind of game, the closest matches are Plume, ECHO //syntax and Malignant Survivors 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Scum's Errand: Raid cursed dungeons, claim powerful loot, and escape before it's too late. Scum's Errand is a top-down roguelite horde shooter with extraction mechanics where every run makes you stronger, but greed can cost you everything.
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Plume
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Top pick for Scum's Errand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Scum's Errand.
Plume is a roguelike where you play as the last surviving egg of a tribe of flightless birds, wiped out by a volcanic eruption. Fight your way up the volcano, collect seeds and crops, eat them for stat boosts, and maybe finally reach the skies your civilization always worshipped.
ECHO //syntax
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Second-strongest match for Scum's Errand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Scum's Errand.
Awaken. Scavenge. Survive.ECHO//syntax is a beat-em-up scrapper game set in a far future robotic world.
Malignant Survivors 2
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Third-strongest match for Scum's Errand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Scum's Errand.
Experience the most intense 3D crowd combat ever. Pick your hero. Gear up. Then face the horde. Grab loot, get stronger, stay alive. Maybe. Didn't work? Try another hero, another build. Find your own path to the Abyss.
Guns & Dragons
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Ranked #4 for Scum's Errand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Scum's Errand.
Dragons? Magic? Who cares? Fight with overwhelming firepower in this co-op FPS roguelite. Fight, choose, grow stronger. Science vs. magic. Fight enemies in dungeons, pick runes and artifacts to craft your build, use materials to expand your base, develop deadlier weapons, and take down dragons.
Disaster Plan Z
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Ranked #5 for Scum's Errand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Scum's Errand.
Disaster Plan Z is a hardcore single-player shooting survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Players need to utilize various weapons along with their unique skills, construct different buildings, and continuously upgrade to resist the invasion of countless zombies and mutant creatures.
Fast Food Wars
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Ranked #6 for Scum's Errand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Scum's Errand.
Fast Food Wars is a bullet-hell shoot'em up rogue-lite game in a procedural generated restaurant with random power ups, weapons. You play as a burger fighting to claim back all the invaded burger restaurant from other fast foods
The Maze
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Ranked #7 for Scum's Errand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Scum's Errand.
Escape an ever-shifting procedural labyrinth. Loot legendary armor, overcome challenges in crafting zones, and survive deadly traps in this fantasy Roguelite. With progressive difficulty and unique enemies, can you find the exit before the Ghost finds you?
Hexborn
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Ranked #8 for Scum's Errand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Scum's Errand.
A blood-fueled roguelite FPS inspired by Doom and Vampire Survivors — but instead of one arena, fight through cursed labyrinths that reshape every run. Draft brutal perks, wield occult firepower, and survive escalating horrors with a retro shooter soul.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Scum's Errand.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Scum's Errand.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Scum's Errand.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Scum's Errand.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Scum's Errand.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Scum's Errand.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Scum's Errand.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Scum's Errand.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Scum's Errand
- What games are most similar to Scum's Errand?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Scum's Errand are Plume, ECHO //syntax, Malignant Survivors 2.
- Who developed Scum's Errand?
- Scum's Errand was developed by Pedro Sgobin.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Scum's Errand.
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