Webkinz Next

VS

Scum

Webkinz Next, released in 2020 by Ganz, is a family-friendly virtual world game building on the original Webkinz. While it has an open world and social interactions, its player population is relatively niche and skews younger. The game is not a mainstream hit, and community engagement is steady but small compared to classic MMOs. My estimate of ~3,000 daily players reflects its persistent but modest audience, mainly from nostalgia and new child users. Its world is persistent and has multiplayer features, but overall scale is limited compared to traditional MMOs.

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.