Space Scum Open Playtest Goes Live on Steam, September 2nd 2025!

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Space Scum Open Playtest Goes Live on Steam, September 2nd 2025!

Fight To The Top of The Galactic Food Chain in this Strategic Turn-Based RPG Inspired by Battle Brothers!

August 14th, 2025 - After a series of closed playtests, the tactical, turn-based action RPG, Space Scum is launching an Open Playtest on September 2nd, 2025 on Steam. While exploring the whole galaxy is still a ways off, players are invited to take their first tentative steps into the wilds of one of many planets they'll be able to explore when the game releases in v1.0!



By outwitting the deadliest threats the 'Verse can throw at you and recruiting the deadliest scum in the galaxy to build your very own Mercenary Company, you might have what it takes to make it to the next sunrise.

About Space Scum

Space Scum is a tactical, turn-based RPG, set across multiple procedurally generated planets, ensuring no playthrough is the same - though they all exist in the same gritty, Sci-Fi universe. You’ll choose your own custom origin and encounter different environments, enemy types, factions and missions, all based on where you go and what you choose to do. Of course, when all the choices are yours, so are the consequences…

Recruit new members to your team, gain skills when they level up, and be sure to equip them well for each battle you fight - dealing with a pack of the local Varanus won’t be the same as facing off against a squad of Imperial soldiers. And remember: nobody’s getting back up when they go down, so when you lose people, you’d best start looking to replace ‘em. Can’t lead a squad of Mercs if no-one’s left standing.

“We’re not the heroes of our story, but we will be the ones to tell it…”
Key Features

A selection of different origins, factions and a procedurally generated universe ensures that every playthrough is unique with its own events and challenges;
With an emphasis on the Sci-Fi setting, you’ll have to build a balanced team equipped for both melee and ranged combat if you want to survive the more deadly encounters;
Earn experience and rewards to level up your Mercs, get new skills and buy better equipment - a rusty shotgun can only last you so long;
Death is permanent, so as you recruit more members throughout your journey, be prepared that not all of them will see the end of it.


About Sole Survivor Games

“Both of us are huge fans of Battle Brothers, we wanted to capture the magic of it whilst making something fresh and distinctly ours. And so, Space Scum.” - Simon, Lead Designer at Sole Survivor Games

Sole Survivor Games is a UK based game development studio founded by Simon and Ed in 2017. Simon is a former lawyer. His love of document drafting continues to this day. He designs and manages the game, but for the good of the team, no longer writes code. Ed is a former technical draftsman. He codes the game and helps with design. Ed does not like Simon’s documents.

About Forklift Interactive

Forklift Interactive is a Barcelona and Atlanta-based indie publisher founded by experienced industry veterans, including former tinyBuild Publishing Director Andrei Podoprigora and Adult Swim Games Product Lead Tuсker Dean. The label specializes in the publishing of deep, endless, system-driven games with player-created narratives.