Operation: New Earth

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Scum

Operation: New Earth is a strategy and simulation game released in late 2016 by Hunted Cow Studios. While it is multiplayer and has online social aspects, it's a niche title from a smaller studio without major ongoing promotional effort. After 7+ years, the daily player base is likely quite modest, with a small but stable group of dedicated users.

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.