Comparing the active count of decaying winter and anime fighting simulator (the original one), both havent been updated in a year (although DW did have a single balance update in the new version, but nothing new)
AFS has about 500 active players
DW has around 1500 active players
Even though AFS is more popular and well known than DW (DW has a total of about 60M visits while AFS has 1.3B visits), DW has much better player retention
And you know what? DW replayability comes from the game being fun, not the grind taking a long time (also a little side note, i can speedrun most of the content in DW in several hours but im still playing DW to this day)
also DW has no way to spend robux, like all of archeximus other games
Also DW caters to the more mature audience where AFS appeals to kids (and apparently everyone) so DW has a much more limited fan base than AFS
So in conclusion, we'll see how many people actually care about a game when it stops getting updated
Edit: i realized that i could replace decaying winter with Dummies versus noobs and leave this post basically unchanged