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Games like Scum

2025PC74 % positive44.99 €

Hardcore multiplayer survival on a huge prison island with deeply simulated metabolism, injuries and skills. You scavenge, craft and fight puppets, mechs and other players in a brutal reality-show setting.

Resources and survival
Open world
Competing against other players
Sandbox with your own goals

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In short: Games like Scum

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Scum special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

Similar in what way?

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Up to three areas count more, the rest steps back.

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Best match

Hurtworld

93 %Match

2019PC76 % positive24.50 €

A punishing first-person multiplayer survival shooter where you gather, craft and fight other players and the environment to stay alive. Its survival progression stays demanding well after your basic needs are covered.

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Competing against other players

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Gray Zone Warfare

Competing against other players

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Ark: Survival Evolved

Resources and survival

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Competing against other players

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Conan Exiles

Resources and survival

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Star Citizen

Deep systems to master

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Ark: Survival Ascended

Resources and survival

You are stranded on islands full of dinosaurs, taming and riding prehistoric beasts, building bases and surviving alone or with tribes of other players. The Unreal Engine 5 remake makes the huge sandbox world look far more impressive.