Devolver’s Scum (not the 1979 Ray Winstone film) will launch on Steam Early Access this August.

Scum is an online multiplayer survival game set in a brutal and bizarre open world where prisoners fight for the amusement of spectators, making them contestants and stars of a sort. As with Hunger Games, your prowess will attract sponsors, who’ll give powerful gifts, and you can even be resurrected by the show’s producers if you die.

Scum’s boasts a eye-opening amount of character customisation and progression, and even goes so far as to track your nourishment and metabolic rate. Check out a few of the developer diaries so far.

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Source: Eurogamer Devolver's multiplayer prison survival gameshow Scum launches on Steam Early Access in August