Merc Zone

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Scum

Merc Zone is a web-based first-person shooter developed by Blue Wizard Digital, known for lightweight, accessible online action games. Web-based shooters tend to have modest but steady user bases, mostly among casual and school-age audiences. The game is not a major, widely-publicized title, so daily players likely remain under a thousand, fitting the lifecycle for smaller browser shooters from indie developers.

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.