Scum sells greater than 250,000 copies in lower than a day

Scum, the painfully correct early entry survival game, is attracting fairly the next. Not content material with dethroning Fortnite from its near-permanent spot on the high of Twitch (earlier than it had even come out) Scum has continued its meteoric rise, surpassing 250,000 copies offered in only a day since launch.

If you’re unfamiliar with Scum, you may recognise its idea from loads of different early entry survival games. The twist is that gamers tackle the function of criminals dropped on a abandoned island to battle for survival. Oh, and it’s all broadcast on TV. It’s additionally fairly real looking – whereas Jordan was taking part in it within the workplace earlier, I used to be unlucky sufficient to look at his character defecate in fairly graphic element, an try and handle a posh in-game metabolism.

Clearly, nevertheless, that stage of element appeals to fairly a number of folks, as builders Gamepires posted a tweet earlier immediately to say that that “the Scum community has been incredible and we’re thankful for the over 250k copies sold in less than 24 hours.”

The devs promise “updates to give you a best in class survival game” throughout Scum’s early entry interval. That may very well be some time, after all – in accordance with its Steam web page, “Scum will be in development for at least one full year during Early Access.”

The SCUM group has been unimaginable and we’re grateful for the over 250okay copies offered in lower than 24 hours!

Rest assured, the workforce is engaged on updates to present you a finest in school survival game. pic.twitter.com/RLzfhfL0Kx

— SCUM (@ScumSport) August 30, 2018

That’s not deterred gamers from selecting the game up in droves, although. Scum is writer Devolver Digital’s greatest ever launch, with 50okay concurrent gamers final night time. It additionally managed to high Twitch for a short second this week, doing so earlier than it had even been totally launched. With Fortnite frequently drawing in a whole bunch of hundreds of viewers, that’s no imply feat, so anticipate to see extra of SCUM in future.