Moment Studio announced on Friday the 17th that Scraps: Modular Vehicle Combat, will soon be delisted from Steam. They’ve since put it on a 90% off sale that ends on February 20th so it seems likely the game will disappear then as well. Although the last hosted server will be shutting down afterwards, owners can continue to play with private servers and through open lobby games. The announcement explains in more detail.
Scraps will soon be delisted from the Steam store. Scraps has been selling near zero copies for quite some time, and although I’ve kept it running for a long while, I can’t keep supporting it forever. Apart from keeping the main server running, eventually some OS or hardware update is bound to come out that breaks something in Scraps, and it’s running on such an old version of the Unity engine that it’ll be impossible to fix without a huge amount of work to upgrade. I don’t feel it’s fair to continue selling a game that’s unsupported.
Soon Scraps will no longer be available to purchase, and the remaining USA server that I keep running will be shut down.
Thankfully Scraps does not require a central server to keep multiplayer working. If you already own the game, you will still be able to download it in your Steam library and play it, and although there will be no permanent official multiplayer server running, anyone should still be able to host a server – be it either a dedicated server, or a game they’re playing in that they’ve set to allow others to join. On LAN or Internet as always. Those systems run on Steam’s own back-end.
Thank you all so much for the great memories of making and playing Scraps: Modular Vehicle Combat.
Steam Announcement – February 17, 2023
Scoop it up for $1.49 while you still can. Thanks to ZachFett for pointing out the news. I’ve added the date to the Watch List calendar and we’ll have a page up on the site later.