Head to head

RYL: Path of the Emperor vs Scum

RYL: Path of the Emperor

Live

10 – 5k daily

Scum

Live

29k – 100k daily

Side by side

Values shared by both games are highlighted.

Status

ACTIVE

Released

June 2005 · 21 years ago

June 2025 · 1 year ago

Daily players

10 – 5k

29k – 100k

Estimated players

—

42.1k0.8%

Available on

Windows

Windows

Platforms

Windows

Windows

Perspectives

Third Person

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

RYL: Path of the EmperorScum

RYL: Path of the Emperor

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	—	Down 100%
September 2026	~1
August 2026	~1	—
July 2026	—	—

Scum

Average monthly estimated players
Month	Estimated players	Change
October 2026	~42k	Down 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.

Twitch viewers

RYL: Path of the Emperor: 0Down 100%
Scum: 122Down 82%

RYL: Path of the Emperor currently has 0 live Twitch viewers, while Scum has 122.

Steam concurrent players

RYL: Path of the Emperor: —
Scum: 6.3kDown 49%

Scum currently has 6,326 peak concurrent Steam players; no comparable data is tracked for RYL: Path of the Emperor.

Discord members

RYL: Path of the Emperor: —
Scum: 67.9kDown 0.2%

Scum currently has 67,890 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for RYL: Path of the Emperor.

Reddit members

RYL: Path of the Emperor: —
Scum: 53kUp 0.3%

Scum currently has 53,005 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for RYL: Path of the Emperor.

How these estimates are made

RYL: Path of the Emperor

RYL: Path of the Emperor is estimated to have 10 – 5k players a day. Around 10k – 930k accounts have played it in total. No Steam data is published for this game, so the range is modelled from the size of its Discord, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube and app-store communities. It is a rough band rather than a measurement.

Scum

Scum is estimated to have 29k – 100k 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.