Angeldust

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Scum

Angeldust is a small-scale indie open-world action-adventure RPG released in 2015. It has some MMO-like features, but with no major publisher or promotional events and being several years post-launch, its active player base is likely quite low, perhaps in the low hundreds daily. Indie open-world multiplayer games tend to have niche but steady follower bases if they offer persistent worlds and cross-platform play.

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.