Dark Chess

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Ark: Survival Evolved

Dark Chess is an indie strategy game released in early 2023, developed by Tall Troll Games. As an indie digital board game variant with a niche appeal and limited exposure, it is likely to have a small but steady community of active daily players, especially since it's over a year past launch and not produced by a major publisher.

Ark: Survival Evolved is a popular survival sandbox game released in 2017 and available on nearly all platforms. Its peak was several years ago, but it maintains a stable community thanks to official and community servers, modding, and occasional event content. While numbers have declined since launch, the game still sees tens of thousands of daily players across PC and consoles, especially due to its ongoing updates and active mod scene. However, it is not an MMO as it does not feature a single, large-scale persistent world—servers are capped and players are sharded.