Boundless

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Scum

Boundless is a persistent-world sandbox MMO released in 2018 by Wonderstruck Games, published in part by Square Enix Collective. While it launched with MMO features and cross-platform play, its indie nature and limited recent updates have contributed to a significant decline in player activity. As of 2024, it is a niche title with a small but dedicated player base, likely under 500 daily active players.

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.