First-person crime shooter · Solo or co-op

CriminalScum

A first-person crime shooter where you start with nothing. Rob locals, boost cars, crack safes and plan heists with your crew. Fight the Gallas gang, outrun the cops, and pay off the debt your grandma left behind, in a grimy town full of blocky crooks. Solo or co-op.

Windows PC Release: TBA Solo or online co-op By Lerk Interactive
About this game

Grandma's dead. Her debt is yours.

Grandma kept a trailer by the tracks in Mill Crossing and a debt nobody told you about. Then the Gallas came to collect. Now she's gone, the trailer is yours, and so is what she owed.

You have no money, no crew and no name on the street. Everything you get, you take.

Start small

Pick pockets, mug the wrong guy, lift bikes and fence it all at the pawn shop. Slim-jim a car door or put a brick through the window, hotwire it and drive it to the chop shop.

Burgle trailers, hold up the liquor store, pry open the laundromat's coin boxes. Somebody's always watching: witnesses talk, and the cops come.

Pull the job

Plan it properly: the gear, the driver, the lookout, the van, the house. Get past locks, dials, keypads and drills, doorbell cameras and nosy neighbours.

Go in quiet with a knife and a mask, or loud with a shotgun. Fence everything afterwards, and remember that hot goods sell cheap.

Run the town

Build your rackets: street corners, weed sellers in the park. Go to war with the Gallas for their corners, their stash and the boss in the back of the arcade, with arcade cabinets to kill time while you're there.

Then knock out the substation, and take First Mill Savings.

Your crook, your crew

Make your crook in the character creator, then play solo or bring your crew in online co-op.

Blocky characters in a grimy, realistic world, with a dark sense of humour.

Trailer

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In-game screenshots

Around Town

CriminalScum in-game screenshot: Gallas turf: a shoot-out outside the arcade
Gallas turf: a shoot-out outside the arcade
CriminalScum in-game screenshot: The Starlite: make her empty the till
The Starlite: make her empty the till
CriminalScum in-game screenshot: A stolen ride down the main road
A stolen ride down the main road
CriminalScum in-game screenshot: Cracking the hidden safe
Cracking the hidden safe
CriminalScum in-game screenshot: The strip, Trailer Park City
The strip, Trailer Park City
CriminalScum in-game screenshot: The police roll up
The police roll up
CriminalScum in-game screenshot: Sunny Acres: Grandma's lane
Sunny Acres: Grandma's lane
CriminalScum in-game screenshot: The rifle: Millpond Park through the scope
The rifle: Millpond Park through the scope
CriminalScum in-game screenshot: Millpond Park
Millpond Park
CriminalScum in-game screenshot: The mirror: build your crook
The mirror: build your crook

Game info

Genre
First-person crime shooter
Players
Solo or online co-op
Platform
Windows
Release
TBA
Developer
Lerk Interactive
Publisher
Lerk Interactive
Manual
Player's manual

Mature content

CriminalScum is made for adults. It contains:

  • Crime, including violence against civilians and police
  • Strong violence and blood (adjustable in the settings)
  • Drug dealing
  • Themes of sex work

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