PERIOD 09 Apr → 08 Jul 2026WINDOW 90 days
STUDIOS 13 scraped · 4 gatedMETHOD full message export, audited
Nomad real chatters
36
of 1,178 members · 3.06%
Engagement rank
#6
of 13 · genuine rate
Chat from top 3
72%
1 user = 47% alone
Field leader
Fourcast
13.5% genuine rate
The correction
why raw numbers lie
Raw "share of members who post" is inflated by post-once intro/verify channels, bots, and "user joined" system messages. Nomad's headline looked like 26.7% engaged (rank #2), but 234 of 312 "posters" only ever posted once, their intro. Counting only people who post 2+ genuine chat messages, Nomad has 36 real chatters (3.06%), and 72% of that is 3 accounts — one user is 47% alone, another is our agency. Everything below uses the audited "genuine chatter" definition.
Real engagement rate
members posting 2+ genuine messages
The studios
◆ = us · sorted by real community size
| Studio | Game | Platform | Founded | Funding / stage | Members | Real chatters | % engaged | Whale (top-3) | Read |
|---|
| Cookie |
Akher Harf · Horrific Housing |
Roblox |
2014 |
Self-funded · live |
30,763 |
850 |
2.76% |
20% |
Large, genuinely healthy Roblox community |
| Lobah |
SAMLA (hero battle royale) |
PC · Early Access |
2024 |
$12M · Social Dev Bank |
1,441 |
133 |
9.23% |
20% |
Broadest, healthiest real community |
| Fourcast |
Loss Prevention |
PC · Steam |
2024 |
NEOM + PlayWay |
809 |
109 |
13.47% |
40% |
Highest genuine engagement rate |
| Aiqona |
Out To Deliver |
PC · Steam |
2025 |
NEOM Level Up |
2,805 |
59 |
2.1% |
62% |
Raw numbers inflated by an intro channel |
| Nomad (Ash) ◆ |
Nomad · Azooma Escape |
PC · Steam |
Ash |
Ash Games (us) |
1,178 |
36 |
3.06% |
72% |
Insider-driven; organic chat is thin |
| Starvania |
Bahamut & the Waqwaq Tree |
PC · Steam |
2022 |
$1.1M · Merak/Impact46 |
350 |
23 |
6.57% |
30% |
Small but genuine |
| OFF BOX |
Fling Up Together |
PC |
~2024 |
NEOM Level Up |
389 |
14 |
3.6% |
58% |
Tiny, whale-driven |
| Table Knight |
UnderMire |
PC · pre-release |
~2023 |
Pre-release |
222 |
12 |
5.41% |
67% |
Big on X, quiet on Discord |
| Spoilz |
Last Letter (1M+ players) |
Mobile |
2020 |
$693k pre-seed |
1,973 |
4 |
0.2% |
56% |
1M+ players yet dead Discord — mobile audience lives on the app stores |
| Evolite |
NOOR |
PC · unreleased |
2016 |
Pre-release 2026 |
158 |
3 |
1.9% |
100% |
Game not out yet, no players to gather |
| Studio Sadu |
itch.io culture games |
itch.io |
~2023 |
Hobbyist / earliest |
79 |
0 |
0.0% |
— |
Near-dormant, small non-commercial games |
| Nomadroid |
KoroNeko |
PC · Steam |
~2023 |
Shipped 2024 |
105 |
0 |
0.0% |
— |
Niche shipped game, little community |
| Up One |
Barqan's Treasure |
PC · pre-release |
~2023 |
Pre-launch |
42 |
0 |
0.0% |
— |
Pre-launch, no players yet |
% engaged green ≥6 · blue ≥3 · grey <3Whale green ≤30 healthy · blue ≤55 · red >55 few carry it
Not scraped
gated or access lost
| Studio | Game | Platform | Founded | Stage | Members | Why |
|---|
| MJ Studios | Kingdom World | Roblox | 2020 | Self-funded | 50,246 | Gated — could not enter |
| Makera | Ultimis (Minecraft) | Minecraft | 2019 | NEOM Level Up | 44,759 | Gated — could not enter |
| Superbullet | Roblox + AI builder | Roblox | 2024 | $300k sovereign | 4,937 | Gated — could not enter |
| UMX | King of Steering | Mobile | 2014 | Established · 70M dl | 5,004 | Access cut mid-scrape |
• Discord ≠ studio health. Spoilz has 1M+ players and a dead server; mobile & pre-launch studios simply aren't on Discord.
• Real community leaders: Cookie (scale, 850 chatters), Lobah (broad & healthy), Fourcast (highest rate). These chose Discord as their hub and it shows.
• Nomad's gap: mid-pack on rate and worst on concentration — our chat is a handful of insiders, not a community. Growing genuine, repeat participation is the work.
METHOD · 90-day full message export per studio (threads excluded). "Genuine chat" strips intro/welcome/verify/rules/roles/self-promo/announcement/boost/giveaway/counting/bot-command channels, known bots, deleted users, and empty system messages. A "chatter" posted 2+ genuine messages. Nomad via Ash's own bot; competitors via research account. Whale index = top-3 posters' share of genuine chat. Member counts from Discord invite API.
