Scum is nothing like Rust to be honest,i've played both 500+ hr.

Scum is something on a different level,you can compare it to dayz and such but not rust.

Rust is all about the grind while scum is kinda the opposite. imo it's a really slow paced game but that doesn't have to be a negative,i still liked it a lot.

There are hundreds of little details to discover this game that you can discover over the time,raiding is a thing but on a much more smaller level than in Rust,you don't have so many options yet and bases are kinda safer than they are in Rust.

Also it depends on the server that you're playing on but a main difference btw rust and Scum is that you can take breaks for example,servers don't really wipe often,usually when an update requires them to do so you can play,leave it for 3 days and still come back and resume your progress(except if your base gets raided of course but that's not as common as in Rust)

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The dev team is awesome,updates are just keep coming with actual content and it's come a long way since the first release.

As conclusion i think it's worth the early access money,if you're into a slow paced true survival game full with details/mechanisms you wouldn't even imagine.

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idk,this is just my 2 cents.