Pirates of the Burning Sea

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Scum

Pirates of the Burning Sea is a historical naval MMORPG released in 2008 by Flying Lab Software and later managed by Portalus Games. The game was relatively niche and, after over 15 years, has a small but dedicated community. Its MMO status is confirmed by its persistent world and large multiplayer features, but with no significant updates or publisher support in recent years, daily active users are likely very low, typical for legacy MMOs that are still online but largely unsupported.

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.