Aether: Trading Card Game

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Scum

Aether: Trading Card Game is a 2023 release by a smaller publisher in the digital collectible card game space. Such TCGs typically have niche but active player bases if not backed by major brands. With limited mainstream recognition and being from a smaller studio, it's likely to have a modest player base, especially over a year post-launch.

Scum is a multiplayer open-world survival game developed by Gamepires and originally entered Early Access in 2018. While it is not a full MMO, it supports servers with dozens of players (up to 64 per server). The game maintains a niche but dedicated following and is frequently updated; however, it has never reached large mainstream status. Based on long-term trends of similar survival games, its daily active player base is estimated to be in the low thousands, and this estimate would hold unless a major relaunch or expansion revitalized the player base.