War Thunder

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Scum

War Thunder is a well-established, cross-platform vehicular combat game released in 2013 by Gaijin Entertainment. It maintains a strong, loyal player base thanks to constant updates, frequent events, and a wide appeal among fans of military simulation. Its age means player numbers have declined from their peak, but it still reliably draws a large daily audience, likely in the low hundreds of thousands.

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.