Croatian Survival Game Becomes Best-Seller in Days

A Croatian open-world survival video game, called SCUM, has already sold sold about 660,000 copies only days after it was released on August 29.

The game was created as a result of cooperation between two Croatian development teams, "Gamepires" and "Croteam". "About 20 people worked on the project," Josip Barisic, "Gamepires" community manager told BIRN.

Asked what led to such rapid success, he said: "Primarily, the work and effort of the whole team, constant communication with players and transparency. And, of course, a pinch of luck."

As the game is still in development, those who bought it actually bought it at a lower than final price of 16.79 US dollars. These customers will help to develop the game with their remarks.

Devolver Digital, the video game publisher, announced on August 29 that SCUM was its biggest launch to date.

And SCUM is already our biggest launch ever. Congrats to @Gamepires!

— Devolver Digital (@devolverdigital) August 29, 2018

The day before it was released, SCUM already had more than 230,000 viewers on Twitch, the world's leading social video service for gamers, which made SCUM one of the most viewed games ever on "YouTube for Gamers".

Most viewed games include such giants as League of Legends, Fortnitea, World of Warcraft and Overwatch.

Barisic told BIRN that even before the stream, they had good communication with streamers that had tested the game.

"They recognized the effort we had and the quality of the game and began to spread the news among them. When the streaming started, more and more people called us, and after a while, there was a domino effect - everyone wanted to try SCUM," he recalled.

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