Hero Online

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Scum

Hero Online is a fantasy MMORPG that launched in 2006. Given its age (over 15 years old), faded presence in the genre, and lack of recent notable updates or active community, it likely has a very small, niche playerbase. Most similar games with comparable age and support tend to fall well below 1,000 daily active players unless propped up by regional popularity or nostalgia. Netgame Inc is not a major publisher, and the game's Western presence is limited.

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.