World of Sea Battle

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Scum

World of Sea Battle is an indie open-world naval action game with RPG and simulator elements, developed by Thera Interactive. While it features open-world and multiplayer tags, the lack of wide recognition, a major publisher, and mainstream coverage suggests a small but steady niche community. Its indie studio background and limited marketing mean the player base is likely in the low hundreds daily. I do not classify this as a true MMO as there's no clear indication of massive concurrent player interactions.

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.