Nether

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Scum

Nether is a multiplayer survival horror game released in 2014 with MMO-like elements. It had a small but dedicated community at launch, though activity dwindled after a few years, especially following management and server changes. The game is now mostly inactive, but a handful of players may still frequent private or community servers. The publisher and developer are not major studios, making sustained high populations unlikely.

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.