Rise: The Vieneo Province

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Scum

Rise: The Vieneo Province is an indie sandbox sci-fi simulator released in 2020 by a small developer, Unistellar Industries, LLC. Since it's niche, lacks major publisher support, and is several years old, its daily player base is likely very small—probably under 100. It maintains a minor presence due to a dedicated simulator/space sandbox audience, but would not be considered popular or widely played.

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.