Istaria: Chronicles of the Gifted

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Roblox

Istaria: Chronicles of the Gifted is a classic MMORPG launched in 2003, originally known as Horizons. It has a persistent world and fits the MMO criteria, but its age, low mainstream profile, lack of recent media attention, and niche community mean the current daily active players are likely very low, in the low hundreds at best.

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.