Head to head

Ember Sword vs Scum

Ember Sword

Live

30 – 14k daily

Scum

Live

24k – 83k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

December 2024 · 2 years ago

June 2025 · 1 year ago

Daily players

30 – 14k

24k – 83k

Estimated players

14.3k2.8%

40.8k1.2%

Available on

Browser
Windows
macOS

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Isometric

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Ember SwordScum

Ember Sword

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~14.1k	Down 0.4%
August 2026	~14.2k	Up 17%
July 2026	~12.1k	—

Scum

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
September 2026	~42.9k	Down 0.4%
August 2026	~43k	Up 1.4%
July 2026	~42.4k	—

Community breakdown

Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube activity for both games, side by side.

Discord members

Ember Sword: 56.9kDown 0.8%
Scum: 68k

Scum currently has about 1.2× as many Discord members as Ember Sword — 67,966 vs 56,909.

YouTube subscribers

Ember Sword: 12.5k
Scum: —

Ember Sword currently has 12,500 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Scum.

Steam concurrent players

Ember Sword: —
Scum: 9.9kDown 20%

Scum currently has 9,888 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for Ember Sword.

Reddit members

Ember Sword: —
Scum: 53kUp 0.3%

Scum currently has 52,973 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Ember Sword.

Twitch viewers

Ember Sword: —
Scum: 633Down 23%

Scum currently has 633 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Ember Sword.

How these estimates are made

Ember Sword

Ember Sword is estimated to have 30 – 14k players a day. Around 13k – 1m accounts have played it in total. No Steam data is published for this game, so the range is modelled from the size of its Discord, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube and app-store communities. It is a rough band rather than a measurement.

Scum

Scum is estimated to have 24k – 83k players a day. Around 2m – 4m accounts have played it in total. The range is anchored on Steam’s official concurrent-player and review counts, then converted to daily actives and accounts — so it covers the Steam player base and will under-count a game played mostly through its own launcher or on console.