Gamepires' survival and battle royale hybrid SCUM is closing in on 50K concurrent players on Steam and Devolver Digital announced that the game is actually their biggest launch ever, which is a pretty big deal for all three involved.

Gamepires' survival game SCUM has already been dubbed the DayZ killer but the game's surge in popularity seems to have come at the expense of server performance, which has been questionable to say the least. Hopefully, the patch fixes it.

SCUM doesn't go into Steam's Early Access until tomorrow, 29 August 2018, but the survival game is already making waves on Twitch, spending the best part of yesterday trailing Fortnite. Obviously, the dev is doing something right here.

SCUM is coming to Steam Early Access on 29 August 2019. This information has been confirmed by the publisher Devolver Digital, as well as the developers Croteam and Gamepires. The game looks like probably the weirdest survival title yet.

Survival games like PUBG have already established the concept of a butt naked guy dropping from the sky but SCUM takes it to the next level - the game simulates human metabolism, so living healthy is a must. Until shooting starts, that is.