Animal Jam

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Animal Jam is a long-running online educational multiplayer game primarily for children, released in 2010 by WildWorks. While past its peak, it maintains a steady community due to its niche and regular updates. Its appeal to a younger audience and educational institutions helps preserve an active user base, though numbers have declined from early highs. Estimates place its daily active players around 80,000 as of 2024.

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.