Game Hangout · SCUM
Play SCUM with friends — without renting a server
The official dedicated server on a friend's PC, one click, and nobody pays for a slot.
Free. No account. Server files: 16.5 GB, once, on the host's PC.
SCUM Command Debugger
Says what the server will make of it: the level it asks for and where that is set up, the arguments, and the nearest real name when the spelling is off. For #SpawnItem it knows the item names too, and why one refuses.
What the app does for SCUM
The server itself: the 16.5 GB download, once, on the host's PC; the three ports SCUM needs, set right; the tunnel to your friends instead of port forwarding; and the world that follows whoever starts it next.
The settings that matter are on a screen: name, password, PVE or PVP, admin rights, elevated users. The rest of ServerSettings.ini is there too, raw. Change something, restart, done.
Guides for SCUM
- SCUM admin commands — the setup, then the list
What to put in AdminUsers.ini and in the database before a command works, then the commands by task — money, skills, spawning past 10, the item list — each one typed on SCUM 1.3.3 by us, and all 233 commands the server knows, read from its own files.
- SCUM dedicated server setup on Windows
6 GB to download but 17 GB on disk, three UDP ports, a query port you have to spell out and a log line that lies. Setting up a SCUM dedicated server on your own PC, measured on a real install.
- SCUM item IDs — every spawn name, by folder
All 3,292 item names a SCUM 1.3.3 server will spawn, read from the server's own files and sorted the way the game sorts them — with the #SpawnItem line ready to copy.
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.
Get your evenings back
Every release is signed, and the app keeps itself up to date from then on.
Download for Windows