Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore

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Scum

Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore is a 2023 indie sandbox fantasy MMORPG from Gellyberry Studios and Freedom Games. The game garnered some niche attention at launch but, as a small-scale, indie MMO with no major marketing or backing, it likely has a low but stable community—estimated at under 1,000 daily active players at this stage, based on typical retention trends for indie MMORPGs a year post-launch.

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.