Scavengers

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Scavengers is a single player and multiplayer open world shooter game with a science fiction theme. It was developed by Improbable Worlds Limited and was released on January 25, 2021. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Scavengers is your strategic survival battleground. Enter a free-to-play action shooter where squads of three compete to survive and dominate in a hybrid of sandbox-style PVE and class-based PVP. Choose from a roster of adaptive Explorers, arm yourself with a combination of unique abilities and weapons, and conquer the challenges of a hostile wasteland. Outthink and outfight enemy players and the …

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gameplay208 positive mentions

optimization87 negative mentions

Unique blend of PvPvE introducing fresh survival, crafting, and tactical team play to the battle royale genre.
Engaging gameplay mechanics including dynamic weather, day-night cycle, player progression, and objective-based matches.
Smooth movement and gunplay with diverse character classes and abilities enhancing strategic depth.
Free to play with no pay-to-win elements; developers are active and responsive to community feedback.
Enjoyable cooperative multiplayer experience that balances PvE challenges and PvP combat, rewarding teamwork.

Steep learning curve and slow progression grind that may frustrate new or casual players; balance favors veteran players with researched upgrades.
Technical issues such as frequent crashes, FPS drops, lag, and occasional server instability hinder smooth gameplay.
Matchmaking problems where solo players or newcomers face unbalanced teams or higher-level opponents, leading to poor new player experience.
Game suffers from dwindling player base and often long queue times, impacting mode variety and full matches.
Some game mechanics, like respawn and extraction systems, have been criticized for reducing enjoyment and fairness.
Presence of hackers and cheaters reported, alongside a sometimes toxic community environment.

gameplay
585 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The gameplay offers a unique blend of PvPvE, survival elements, and crafting within a battle royale framework, featuring dynamic weather and tactical team-based combat. While many praise its innovative mechanics, sliding movement, and rewarding progression for experienced players, common criticisms include steep learning curves, balancing issues, pay-to-win elements, and repetitive or underwhelming core loops. Overall, it holds promise but currently requires polish, better new player onboarding, and refinement to fully realize its potential.
- “The pvpve gameplay was so fun, the gunplay was smooth, and the teamwork was insane.”
- “The game features a dynamic weather system and day-night cycle, adding depth and challenge to gameplay.”
- “With its evolving gameplay and engaging mechanics, it's a game worth exploring for fans of survival and multiplayer shooters.”
- “Good idea, bad execution, gameplay is pretty underwhelming and also very rough.”
- “Devs gutted the game mechanics to "nerf" higher skilled players - game died and now noobs really have no chance.”
- “Game runs bad, boring gameplay, good movement, alright gun play, just boring overall.”
optimization
213 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Optimization for this game is generally poor, with widespread reports of stuttering, frame drops, and high system resource usage even on powerful PCs. While some improvements have been made over time, performance issues remain a significant barrier to smooth gameplay, especially in PvP, leading many players to wait for better optimization before fully enjoying the game.
- “Performance got a lot better.”
- “Its really cool concept of a game, and very very optimized for an early access.”
- “Update: numerous updates have made some really good balances and optimizations!”
- “I have a PC almost 70% better than minimum requirements and I barely pull 30 FPS constantly; this game is heavily unoptimized.”
- “Can't even play without huge frame drops and stuttering every other second, even on the lowest settings.”
- “Horrible optimization, it stutter-locks constantly for the first five-ten minutes of a match until it gets everything loaded in.”
graphics
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The game's graphics receive mixed but generally positive feedback, praised for their detailed environments, stylish art style, and "AAA quality" visuals that enhance immersion. However, many users report significant optimization issues causing frequent frame drops, stuttering, and performance problems even on high-end PCs, impacting smooth gameplay. The art style is often compared to Borderlands and Fortnite, which some enjoy for its unique flair, while others find it uninspiring, and occasional graphical glitches and loading issues remain areas needing improvement.
- “I put in 13.8 hours total, this game is one of the best games I ever played, the visual treatment, snow and weather, graphics are mind blowing.”
- “Seriously, don't pass on giving it a shot from the mixed reviews, the core gameplay loop is phenomenal, graphics are also AAA quality which I was not expecting when I first got it.”
- “This game has amazing graphics; extraordinary gameplay however; the only downside would be that there isn't an only-PvE gamemode but forced PvP or sometimes PvE, the game is amazing for an early access, however a small feature such as PvP/PvE modes would be greatly appreciated, other than that this game is amazing!”
- “Gameplay is repetitive and graphics look like PlayStation 3 graphics.”
- “Really poorly optimized, glitching graphics, stuttering blurry mess when in battle.”
- “Don't play this as long as it is still in early access, broken gameplay mostly and the graphics belong to 2011 yet it's still buggy and laggy on even medium settings, the optimization isn't it in this game and the concept isn't either something new nor even that good.”
grinding
97 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game is widely criticized for its excessive and tedious grinding, particularly in progression, resource farming, and crafting systems, which often feel slow, unrewarding, and time-gated. This grind-heavy design creates a steep disadvantage for new players against experienced ones, fostering a toxic environment where long-time grinders dominate. While some find the grind manageable or even fun, the consensus is that it hampers overall enjoyment and accessibility.
- “The extraction is the hardest part of the game, sure, but this is no farming simulator.”
- “You'll need a second life for grinding.”
- “A bit grindy... sometimes.”
- “Overall this system creates a toxic environment where the rich get richer, and being a new player is absolutely not worth it - you will be scrapping for breadcrumbs filled with bad RNG to maybe unlock some things to even begin to stand a chance against teams decked out in epic/legendary gear who will not only beat you with bigger experience, but also better, more specialized gear and faster farming which allows them to hit endgame earlier.”
- “The progression is very grindy, only the first tutorial match or two will give you an abundance of crafting materials, after that my play experience averaged about 1 item per match to break down into ingredients for research projects, with some matches awarding nothing even though I extracted.”
- “The entire game has a mobile-game grind aspect to it (wait for energy in order to research 5/min gained), some requires an insane amount of energy, weird materials that require an insane amount of grinding, exceedingly long hours to craft new gear (tier 2 is already at 8+ hours for a simple weapon) which makes it even worse than Warframe at higher tiers.”
story
84 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's story and lore show promise and have been praised for their depth and well-designed characters, but many users feel the narrative is underdeveloped and overshadowed by the primarily battle royale gameplay. Players express a desire for expanded story-driven content, cooperative PvE modes, and more varied missions to enrich the experience beyond repetitive grind and PvP matches. Overall, while some appreciate the foundation laid for the story, the current game focuses more on gameplay mechanics than a cohesive, engaging narrative.
- “The characters were also so well designed and balanced for the most part and even with hundreds of hours in it, it never got boring. I was looking forward to learning more about the story considering there's the Ark 1 wreck.”
- “I was very surprised at how good this game was in early access. Everything from the graphics to the story is brilliant!”
- “I enjoyed the map for what it was mostly but I do wish or hope they implement a backstory with some depth into why the world has gone to hell in a handbasket because it seems like I could really get into the lore of the game for the most part.”
- “☑️ This game has no story.”
- “The 'story' literally makes no sense, the netcode is absolute garbage, and cheaters, because of course there are.”
- “Not much is happening the entire game aside from you running around and doing boring missions and shooting creeps.”
stability
72 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game’s stability is notably inconsistent, with frequent bugs, glitches, freezes, and performance issues typical of an early access title. While many players experience crashes, lag, and optimization problems, the underlying gameplay remains enjoyable, and ongoing developer support suggests potential for improvement. However, current instability and technical flaws significantly impact the overall experience.
- “No glitches.”
- “Yes, it's early access, so there's lots of room to improve, but the current release isn't buggy, servers haven't had issues since launch day, and there's no way to buy an advantage in the store right now.”
- “They changed their resurrection system and lost pretty much their entire player base overnight - terrible for new players as all the older players have a massive advantage as there's no skill-based matchmaking, it's seriously laggy and filled with tons of bugs and glitches.”
- “Not only is this game the least optimized I've ever played (and I played PUBG on release) but the glitches, bugs, broken maps, rendering issues, crashing, and audio sync problems (to name just a few) entirely break the experience.”
- “Having played about 10 games, 7 of which experienced unbearably long delay; in other cases, the game simply freezes due to map loading.”
monetization
34 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Monetization in the game primarily revolves around microtransactions and premium currency used to bypass time-based progression, which many players feel leans toward pay-to-skip rather than fully pay-to-win. While some appreciate that microtransactions are limited or absent at launch, concerns persist about aggressive future monetization, including excessive waiting times and cosmetic-focused purchases. Overall, the monetization approach has drawn criticism for feeling like a cash grab and detracting from the gameplay experience.
- “It's okay for a free-to-play game to have microtransactions and a store full of paid content and DLCs.”
- “It's just pay to skip the wait rather than in any way pay-to-win; people tend to complain about pay-to-win when any early-access free-to-play title has some monetization methods.”
- “At the time of writing, there are no microtransactions, which is outstanding for a free-to-play game.”
- “The other main problem aside from the meatgrinder effect is that the devs do not reward you with chips like they used to since they implemented in-game purchases for the chips; they have reduced the amount you can win in-game by way too much.”
- “The premium currency in the game (chips) can be used to bypass the time it takes for research to finish, but this just seems like the monetization route they are going, which honestly blows.”
- “Although this game has potential, right now in its current state it's boring, repetitive, incredibly generic and has some seriously concerning probable future microtransactions and horrendous mobile waiting time tactics.”
music
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The game's music is widely praised for its epic, dramatic quality that enhances intense moments, especially during final battles and key events. Many players highlight the soundtrack as memorable and fitting, comparing it to cinematic scores, though a few find it less impressive or suggest it needs improvement. Overall, the music significantly contributes to the game's atmosphere and player engagement.
- “The main theme of this game is one of my all-time favorite game soundtracks.”
- “The music is so dramatic which leads to amazingly intense duels, mainly at the end of a match when the spaceship lands and all players flock towards it as the music picks up and different players strategize in different ways.”
- “But this is a good step from the 'I loot for 80 percent of the game and then I get to a fight and die.' It's got good core mechanics and a soundtrack that reminds me of Interstellar.”
- “Music is turned off entirely.”
- “I love the executions though I love that, practically the only good thing I can say about this, music sucks too, style is trying to be Borderlands 2, it's bad, maybe give it some time but it's not good right now.”
- “Music was boring and weak.”
atmosphere
16 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's atmosphere is widely praised for its unique, immersive blend of post-apocalyptic, icy, and sci-fi elements, creating a visually appealing and distinct environment reminiscent of titles like Generation Zero and Defiance. However, some players find the overall experience bogged down by frustrating matchmaking and pay-to-win elements, which detract from the otherwise engaging world design and survival mechanics. While many appreciate the innovative mix of PvE and PvP within this setting, a few consider the atmosphere bland or overshadowed by gameplay and technical issues.
- “This game has a very unique atmosphere in many ways, whether running through the icy abandoned world it is set in or through the amazing post-apocalyptic structures carefully spread across the world. The design extends to the UI and heroes featuring futuristic, scientifically advanced equipment used in a lonely, alien-filled world, culminating in battles on an amazingly crafted spaceship.”
- “Game is visually appealing, has a nice atmosphere, fun and entertaining combat, and it is enjoyable to play a battle royale that also includes some PvE aspects.”
- “The survival mechanics add a neat twist to the battle royale atmosphere without being so impactful that you have to spend most of your game worrying about them.”
- “Matchmaking places you against players who have been playing since release, and due to the fact you can unlock stronger weapons and loadouts based on how much time you've played, this creates an extremely frustrating atmosphere for players who are only just learning the game.”
- “The overall atmosphere and gameplay are bland and just boring.”
- “Let's see what makes this game unique: battle royale (mostly sucks), winter atmosphere with heat and food features (like Darwin's Project and survival games). The game says it's sandbox but the only sandbox part about it is the stolen game designs that have been forced together into this game. Gameplay is a mess and the NPCs are the only ones with any kind of brain compared to most of the teammates you will find.”
humor
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The game features humor that many find genuinely funny, especially in social or multiplayer settings, with amusing glitches and ironic elements contributing to the experience. However, some players feel certain aspects, like the ineffective trade rates and secondary PvE elements, are unintentionally humorous or frustrating rather than genuinely funny. Overall, humor is a blend of deliberate fun and comical bugs or situations.
- “Deconstructing materials for a universal trade currency can be done, but the rate is hilariously bad.”
- “Very good, has a lot of potential and is also funny at the end of every game.”
- “The only good part about the game is my friend Donny kept falling through the world and it was hilarious.”
replayability
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The game features a strong crafting system that significantly enhances its replayability, with many users considering it infinitely replayable. However, some hope for optimization to improve performance on medium-spec PCs.
- “Infinitely replayable.”
- “Good crafting system behind it that pushes replayability.”
- “Infinitely replayable.”
- “Hope they optimize it and make it more playable for medium spec PC.”
character development
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Character development is widely criticized for its boring and indistinguishable character designs, which fail to engage players or provide clarity during gameplay. Despite an interesting concept and art style, the lack of distinct and compelling character development significantly detracts from the overall experience.
- “The character designs are boring as hell and it's impossible to tell them apart at range so you have no idea who you're fighting.”
emotional
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The emotional aspect is perceived as wholesome and reflective of the developer's values, suggesting a sincere and thoughtful approach. However, technical issues like control bugs may detract from full emotional engagement.