Dominate the island with your skills, cunning and strategies to achieve higher levels of game and receive powerful gifts from corporate sponsors and, if you happen to slip up and die, get resurrected by the show’s producers with all your valuable skills still intact.' Players will balance base level needs with knowledge-based skills to manage everything from nourishment, metabolic rate and body mass to weapons proficiency, combat style and security systems hacking. 'Scum evolves the multiplayer open world survival game with unprecedented levels of character customisation, control and progression, where knowledge and skills are the ultimate weapons for long-term survival. these are not the statistics of a game where you just grab a gun and shoot a man in the face. Water consumption calories burned sodium levels blood volume vitamin and mineral levels 'TEETH NUMBER'. Which I can best demonstrate by showing you its status menu: It borrows some of the game show trappings often seen in the genre, presented as a TV show where prisoners murder each other (ooh that Devolver edge) for the approval of viewers and sponsors, but is very serious about survival.

Prepare to once again trudge through woods, drink from streams, and worry about how many centilitres of blood are left in you, all the while trying not to get murdered by others.ĭeveloped by Gas Guzzlers mob Gamepires with the Serious Sam gang at Croteam, Scum is very much not a battle royale game.

We'll get to relive those halcyon days soon, as Devolver have announced an early access launch date of August 29th. Devolver Digital's whole brand is edgy nostalgia but it is weird they're casting a misty-eyed gaze back to the distant year of 2012, when 'Friendly!' shouts in DayZ were the sound of the summer, with multiplayer online survival murder sandbox Scum.

Scum early access buy