Play SCUM with friends — Game-Hangout

How it works with SCUM

Somebody hosts

The app downloads the SCUM server files (16.5 GB), starts the server on their PC and opens an encrypted tunnel to your friends. No port forwarding, no router settings.

Friends join

From the app or through an invite link. They see the world card, press join, and they are in — with the same mods as everybody else, automatically.

The world follows

When the host logs off, the next one to start picks the world up right where it was. An always-on PC of your own can hold it overnight. Optional.

Mods on SCUM

Steam Workshop. Pick the mods in the app, the list is shared in the session, everyone runs the same set. Missing required items are spotted before the start.

If the server does not come up after a change, the bisect narrows it down to the one mod — no more removing things by guesswork.

What it costs you

Nothing hidden — this is the trade:

Somebody's PC is the server. When they go to bed, the game goes with them — until the next one starts it. Your ping is your internet.

Everyone needs the app and their own copy of SCUM. The host also needs the server files — 16.5 GB on disk.

The first start asks for admin rights. It creates a real network adapter — that's the price of never touching port forwarding.

Common SCUM problems

The server files are huge

Yes: 16.5 GB, from Steam's manifest. Only the hosting PC needs them, once. Everybody else needs the game and the app.

Friends can't join my SCUM server

SCUM servers are usually reached over an IP and a forwarded port. Game-Hangout skips that: the server answers on an address inside the tunnel, and your friends join from the app.

The host went to bed and the server is gone

That is the trade with any friend-hosted server, and the app is honest about it on the homepage. What it does about it: the world follows whoever starts next, so nobody's evening is lost — and an always-on PC of your own can hold it overnight.

Play SCUM with friends — without renting a server