There’s an Aztec city building game called Tlatoani. It’s in early access, but has enough meat on the bone that it’s one of my goto games.

Out of curiosity I checked Steam DB for active player numbers. I have discovered at any given point I am 10% to 25% of the given player base BY MYSELF. I am 1 of 4 people playing this game right now in the world. With the prevalence of the internet I always assume whatever weird bullshit you’re into there’s at least a thousand people talking about it; making memes outsiders could never comprehend. It’s actually novel to fly under the radar for once.

What do you do that doesn’t have a community associated with it?

  • Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org
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    23 days ago

    I’m still on Second Life, which is a virtual world social platform. It has ~45,000 given active people on it, which is a piss squirt compared to other online platforms like MMOs and MMORPGs. But, nobody I know are into it save for about 5 people at least.

    And I still somehow am bothering with Gaia Online which has even less users, from 1,500 ~ 4,400 on a good day and only know 2 friends on there.

    • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      23 days ago

      I was just thinking about second life the other day when someone brought up meta and its push for the ‘metaverse.’ I still remember the old pranks of making it rain dildos in someone’s area, or enclosing their head in a box.

    • spittingimage@lemmy.world
      2·
      23 days ago

      Every so often I go through a phase:

      1. “Second Life was fun. Why did I stop using it?”

      2. Recreate account, log in.

      3. Watch FPS drop to a fraction with a lot of zeroes at the start of it as all the adverts struggle to load.

      4. “Oh, yeah. That was why.”

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
      1·
      22 days ago

      Oh man, Second Life! I remember being absolutely wowed by it even though I never made an account. Its heyday was very much before I’d be able or brave enough to use real money in a virtual social game like that. (That wasn’t WoW lol)

      I always fondly remember the lovable antics of the legendary troll: Esteban Winsmore!

      Gaia Online reminds me a lot of Ragnarok, visually. That’s cool it’s still around! I remember hopping around F2P MMOs like crazy just trying to find something me and my long distance partner could interact together and vibe with. There were a lot of oddball ones that are shockingly still around!