Puzzles & Chaos

VS

Scum

Puzzles & Chaos is a mobile fantasy puzzle-RPG strategy game from 37GAMES, released in late 2022. These games typically enjoy a decent early player base and can retain tens of thousands of daily active users if backed by ongoing events and advertising, but usually don't reach MMO scale. As of mid-2024, it's likely still active but not top-tier in popularity.

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.