Longvinter

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Scum

Longvinter is a small-scale indie multiplayer survival sandbox, released by Uuvana Studios. It has received modest interest in the niche of cozy/survival games but has not broken out as a mainstream hit. As a recent release, there is a short-term peak expected, but as an indie with no major publisher, its daily active players are likely in the low thousands. It is not structured as a massive persistent world with hundreds or thousands of concurrent players, so it does not meet MMO criteria.

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.