The Swordsmen X: Survival

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Scum

The Swordsmen X: Survival is an action-adventure open world sandbox RPG released in April 2023 by Yooreka Studio and CubeGame. It's a niche survival PvP/PvE title with moderate visibility, limited global marketing, and a primarily Asian player base. Interest likely peaked near launch. Titles in this genre and size commonly retain around 500–1,000 daily active players one year after release unless they achieve breakout popularity, which this title has not.

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.