Head to head

New World: Aeternum vs Scum

New World: Aeternum

Live

1k – 5k daily

Scum

Live

31k – 110k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

September 2021 · 5 years ago

June 2025 · 1 year ago

Daily players

1k – 5k

31k – 110k

Estimated players

94.6k1.1%

43.7k4.1%

Available on

Windows
PlayStation

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

New World: AeternumScum

New World: Aeternum

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~95.1k	Down 0.1%
September 2026	~95.3k	Down 0.1%
August 2026	~95.4k	Down 0.5%
July 2026	~95.9k	—

Scum

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~43.5k	Up 1.7%
September 2026	~42.7k	Down 0.8%
August 2026	~43k	Up 1.4%
July 2026	~42.4k	—

Community breakdown

Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube activity for both games, side by side.

Steam concurrent players

New World: Aeternum: 536Up 0.9%
Scum: 12.3kUp 12%

Scum currently has about 23× as many peak concurrent Steam players as New World: Aeternum — 12,277 vs 536.

Discord members

New World: Aeternum: 65.9kDown 1.8%
Scum: 67.8kDown 0.2%

New World: Aeternum and Scum are nearly even on Discord members — 65,869 vs 67,847.

Reddit members

New World: Aeternum: 306.5kUp 0.1%
Scum: 53.1kUp 0.2%

New World: Aeternum currently has about 5.8× as many subreddit members as Scum — 306,547 vs 53,065.

Twitch viewers

New World: Aeternum: 64Down 83%
Scum: 190Down 87%

Scum currently has about 3× as many live Twitch viewers as New World: Aeternum — 190 vs 64.

YouTube subscribers

New World: Aeternum: 145k
Scum: —

New World: Aeternum currently has 145,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Scum.

How these estimates are made

New World: Aeternum

New World: Aeternum is estimated to have 1k – 5k players a day. Around 4m – 9m accounts have played it in total. The range is anchored on Steam’s official concurrent-player and review counts, then converted to daily actives and accounts — so it covers the Steam player base and will under-count a game played mostly through its own launcher or on console.

Scum

Scum is estimated to have 31k – 110k players a day. Around 2m – 4m accounts have played it in total. The range is anchored on Steam’s official concurrent-player and review counts, then converted to daily actives and accounts — so it covers the Steam player base and will under-count a game played mostly through its own launcher or on console.