Aether Story

VS

Roblox

Aether Story is a small indie fantasy RPG developed and published by Phanxgames LLC. While it brands itself as an MMORPG with a persistent world, its niche status, indie developer, and lack of widespread recognition suggest a very small but dedicated community. Most small indie MMOs tend to have under 100 daily players unless they achieve viral attention.

Roblox is a massively popular sandbox platform, released in 2006 but continually updated and widely adopted by younger audiences globally. It consistently reports tens of millions of monthly active users, with peak daily actives usually around 5–10% of monthly users. Recent filings and reports indicate Roblox has over 60 million daily active users, but this covers global user logins across many devices and experiences. Adjusting conservatively for reporting and engagement variance, daily actives typically exceed 50 million worldwide, but simultaneous users generally peak in the hundreds of thousands to low millions. As a platform with persistent worlds, it fits the broader MMO definition.