Cinderstone Online

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Scum

Cinderstone Online is an indie fantasy RPG released in September 2023 by Codevision. As a recent indie MMORPG, it likely has a small but dedicated audience; however, indie MMOs struggle to maintain high active player numbers, especially less than a year after launch. Based on its limited mainstream presence and typical retention for such games, a few hundred daily players is a reasonable estimate.

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.