Sands of Salzaar

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Scum

Sands of Salzaar is a single-player sandbox RPG with strategy elements, released in 2020 by Han-Squirrel Studio. It gained some attention for its open-ended gameplay and mod support but did not become a mainstream hit. Interest has dwindled since release, and as a single-player game without persistent world multiplayer, it retains a small but devoted community. DAP is likely under 1,000.

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.