Verdun

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Scum

Verdun is a niche WW1 multiplayer shooter released in 2015. While it has a dedicated community and benefits from the historical warfare niche, its player base is limited by its age, indie roots, and smaller-scale matches (not a mass-market shooter). Player numbers are likely modest but stable, estimated around 2,000 daily active players across all platforms.

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.