Eastward Legend: The Empyrean

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Scum

Eastward Legend: The Empyrean is a mobile fantasy RPG published by Tencent Games and Gameflier and developed by Seasun Games. The game is purportedly a mobile MMOARPG with a persistent world and multiplayer elements. As a recent release from a major publisher in the genre-popular Chinese mobile market, initial daily players may be around 20,000, but likely not at the level of the top grossing titles given limited western awareness and promotion.

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.