Games like SCUM
If SCUM is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rust, Deadside and Miscreated — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its immersive survival experience, massive and brutal map and sharp gunplay. 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 →SCUM is a multiplayer survival game developed by Gamepires, released in 2025 with a price of $44.99 USD. The game features base-building, character progression, looting and farming, PvP interaction, and survival mechanics across a large open world. Reviewers have highlighted an immersive survival experience with a massive and brutal map and sharp gunplay. Players describe the atmosphere as dark, stressful, and tense as they traverse punishing environments, craft tools, and evade threats to stay alive. The game holds a 74% positive rating from 37,396 Steam reviews. SCUM is not supported on Steam Deck.
About SCUM: Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
Players who liked SCUM also play
Steam players who put hours into SCUM also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Rust
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a stressful mood with SCUM.
Top pick for SCUM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SCUM.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Deadside
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with SCUM.
Second-strongest match for SCUM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SCUM.
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Miscreated
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a dark mood with SCUM.
Third-strongest match for SCUM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SCUM.
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
DayZ
WHY THIS
Shares base building, character progression and a stressful mood with SCUM.
Ranked #4 for SCUM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SCUM.
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.
Conan Exiles
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a stressful mood with SCUM.
Ranked #5 for SCUM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SCUM.
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Infestation: The New Z
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with SCUM.
Ranked #6 for SCUM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SCUM.
The New Z is a FREE TO PLAY multi-game mode experience. SURVIVE with friends and gather loot, stash and trade. Go into wars against other groups in a massive OPEN WORLD or face them 5 v 5 in COMPETITIVE.
XERA: Survival
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a stressful mood with SCUM.
Ranked #7 for SCUM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SCUM.
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
DeadPoly
WHY THIS
Shares base building with SCUM.
Ranked #8 for SCUM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SCUM.
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
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The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a tense mood with SCUM.
Reviewers of SCUM cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with SCUM.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Rust
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a stressful mood with SCUM.
Reviewers of SCUM cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with SCUM.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Squad
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with SCUM.
Reviewers of SCUM cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with SCUM.
Squad is a tactical FPS that provides authentic combat experiences through teamwork, communication, and realistic combat. It bridges the gap between arcade shooter and military realism with 100-player battles, combined-arms warfare, and base building.
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with SCUM.
Reviewers of SCUM cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with SCUM.
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, the high-stakes winner-take-all shooter that started the Battle Royale craze, is free-to-play! Drop into diverse maps, loot unique weapons and supplies, and survive in an ever-shrinking zone where every turn could be your last.
CUBG: Car Unknown's Battlegrounds
WHY THIS
Reviewers of SCUM cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with SCUM.
New survival by battle cars of war with many guns in battleground royal 3D pixel
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SCUM at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under SCUM on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SCUM.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SCUM on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SCUM.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under SCUM on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with SCUM.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under SCUM on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with SCUM.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under SCUM on Steam right now. Shares Action with SCUM.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under SCUM on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with SCUM.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SCUM on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with SCUM.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SCUM.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with SCUM.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with SCUM.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with SCUM.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with SCUM.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SCUM.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCUM.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about SCUM
- Does SCUM work on Steam Deck?
- SCUM is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does SCUM cost?
- SCUM is listed on Steam at 44.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does SCUM have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — SCUM supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to SCUM?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SCUM are Rust, Deadside, Miscreated.
- Who developed SCUM?
- SCUM was developed by Gamepires.
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.
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