This is a step above most survival games where you are pantless and need to walk past perfectly acceptable-looking zombie pants only to loot a tin of tuna or a pair of sunglasses.

When killing a puppet (zombie) in Scum, the loot drops are constant with what the puppet was seen to be wearing or carrying. While I do not expect hardened prisoners to look like catwalk models, I feel that characters having some semblance of facial muscle control and heads being firmly attached to necks isn’t asking too much of the developers, especially when other titles using the same engine manage to create characters which at least look human, if not attractive. While the world has been lovingly created, and there are some truly stunning locations to explore, character models are hideous, with even the best-looking character models being aptly described as “Butterface bob and friends”. In addition, Scum is one of the few survival games to allow for cannibalism, and a hungry survivor may not think twice about making you their lunch. While eating a dozen candy bars a day may fill you up, it will also increase your character’s physical weight, reduce your agility, make you more prone to certain illnesses, and increase your hitbox, making you an easy target for other players and the undead. Scum is a survival game like no other while games like Deadside focus more on instant gratification and DayZ combines survival with high-end PvP combat, Scum has found a niche for itself to the far left of DayZ, focusing on the experience of survival by offering players one of the most comprehensive metabolism simulators in existence.Įating too fast, too much, or too little food can result in your player becoming sickly, and while many survival games have a mechanic to flag spoiled or raw food, Scum takes this even further by requiring players to consume correct amounts of vitamins and nutrients to stay healthy. After a promising start and a fairly productive three years, the world’s most realistic survival game is starting to show signs of losing its way.

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