Ikariam

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Roblox

Ikariam is a web-based strategy game released in 2008 by Gameforge. Its peak popularity was in the late 2000s and early 2010s, but Gameforge games generally retain a niche, loyal audience. Given its age and genre (browser-based city-builder/strategy), combined with minimal marketing and few major updates in recent years, it likely has a small but persistent daily player base.

Roblox is a massively popular sandbox platform, released in 2006 but continually updated and widely adopted by younger audiences globally. It consistently reports tens of millions of monthly active users, with peak daily actives usually around 5–10% of monthly users. Recent filings and reports indicate Roblox has over 60 million daily active users, but this covers global user logins across many devices and experiences. Adjusting conservatively for reporting and engagement variance, daily actives typically exceed 50 million worldwide, but simultaneous users generally peak in the hundreds of thousands to low millions. As a platform with persistent worlds, it fits the broader MMO definition.