March of Empires

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Orna

March of Empires is a long-running mobile and PC strategy game from Gameloft, first released in 2017. As a free-to-play title from a major studio, it has maintained a modest but steady player base, especially among fans of persistent strategy games. However, being over 6 years old and without major recent expansions, its daily active players are likely much lower than its peak, estimated now at around 15,000. While it offers large-scale multiplayer features typical of strategy MMOs, it falls just short of classic MMO levels of persistent, shared worlds with thousands simultaneously present.

Orna is a location-based turn-based RPG for mobile, released in late 2017 and developed by indie studio Northern Forge Studios. Its persistent world and regular updates have helped it keep a dedicated niche following. As a GPS-location game with social and asynchronous multiplayer features, it's popular but does not approach the mainstream DAPs of top mobile RPGs. Around 10,000-20,000 daily players is a fair estimate for a successful, niche location-based RPG of this age.