The Zone, once home to a place of prosperity and peace between the kingdoms and nations, where people didn't have to worry about the fear of peace one day coming undone.. Today, a warzone between the two biggest factions on Earth.

70 years ago, the Strategic Atlantic Treaty Organization (SATO) and the Volkov Pact declared war on each other due to rising tensions between the members states of these factions. By the present year of 2050, war has become religion, a balance to humanity, the great equalizer..

In the middle of this war lies a group of survivors who delve deep into the war torn areas of the zone, dodging gunfire and bombing runs for scraps.. You live deep in the caverns that are now City 17, one of the many bastions of humanity and peace left in this godforsaken world..

This group of brave survivors are affectionately known as the Scavs, of which you happen to be one of them.. You are not the hero of the story, you are merely a survivor trying to get by, selling whatever scraps you can get for food and water. You will get scraps, and you will be happy with what little you get - Unless you want to get the Hunting Dogs on you for getting too much attention, and that won't be pleasant at all.

Fight for whatever scrap you can sell back at City 17 and live another day.. For every day could just as easily be your last, scav.