Hey, guys! I’ve been so much inspired by the previous article about fun and earnings in blockchain games, that I decided to do a quick industry research and think of blockchain games that I personally would enjoy playing. Some of them continue evolving the play-and-earn and play-to-own concepts, but gravitate towards a more diverse playing experience.
Without further ado, let me present these projects, I’m pretty sure you’d like to try some of them.
Let me guess — you expect me to start my list with a typical MMORPG? The market is already full of such genres, how about training your brains and building more complex strategies? This is where Bluelight.inc comes on the scene.
How to describe this game? Imagine the creators of The SimCity, The Sims 4, Hearthstone or Splinterlands merging their games’ mechanics and flavoring it with a spicy mix of humor a-la Rick & Morty, South Park, or Take My Muffin. As for the latter, it serves as a prototype for the settings of San Crypto, a city the residents of which look up to the astonishing Bluelight Corporation.
Bluelight.inc is a startup simulator that allows you to build your company from the scratch. This is done by helping your team deal with daily challenges and tasks. With its closed alpha version out, Bluelight.inc is now mostly a card game where players should think over each step and keep improving their offices to boost specialists’ productivity.
Belonging to new-generation blockchain games, Bluelight.inc prioritizes gameplay and experience over earnings. It will feature NFT and $KALE rewards for the most active players, but there’s no minimal financial threshold required to enter the game — it’s absolutely free! By the way, you can already join early birds and try it out by filling in this form.
MetaCene is a new-generation MMORPG with a large player base. The setting of the game is a post-apocalyptic planet where a small number of victims of a deadly particle storm somehow manage to survive and recover. Players may engage in open-world and dungeon exploration, uncover minerals in enigmatic alien artifacts, and engage in combat with creatures and other survivors to earn a variety of prizes.
Player-centric entertainment, interaction, and creation are at the core of MetaCene’s concept. It enables a really massive multi-player online gaming experience and makes thousand-player MMO raids feasible because of its remarkable social features and strong technological infrastructure. So if communication and group performance are your major motivations to play online games, MetaCene will definitely appeal to you.
One more reason to try it is easy entrance — you won’t need large initial investments to start playing. From Rangers Mainnet, MetaCene envisions a multi-chain future with real-time confirmation and extremely cheap gas costs. Beginning in early 2023, it will launch its Genesis NFT collection as well as PC and mobile versions.
James and Robbie Ferguson created the Gods Unchained online trading card game in 2018. If you played Magic: The Gathering Arena and Hearthstone, you’re well aware of what to expect. Every card in the game is unique since it was created on the Ethereum blockchain, which prevents digital assets from copying.
The game mechanics is simple: you purchase a pack of cards in Gods Unchained using ETH and receive a random set which you may use to create your own deck and play against other players. Currently, the game has around 400 cards available for collecting. In God’s Unchained Card store, you may also purchase, sell, or trade certain cards.
How to make money while playing Gods Unchained? Rewards can be obtained in two different ways. The first method involves getting fresh card packs from a rated match that might be bought and sold when the Forge opens. The second is via taking part in a recent promotion dubbed ‘Blessing of the $GODS’: creators distribute prize pools in GODS tokens each week. These tokens may be used by players to purchase fresh card packs or to trade for different cryptocurrencies.
Illuvium is a role-playing game (RPG) that uses blockchain technology, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and scaling solution Immutable X to provide users with a high-quality gameplay experience at no gas cost.
Players can search the virtual world of Illuvium for local creatures (Illuvials), in-game objects, and other valuables in the form of NFTs. These in-game objects, which may be utilized for missions and combat, provide owners an advantage over other players, making them an important component of the game.
Also, because all in-game objects are NFTs, they may be sold on any NFT marketplace. In IlluvDEX, the game’s decentralized marketplace, players also have the choice to buy or sell these NFTs.
The game has seven distinct settings in total, over 100 Illuvials divided into five affinities (Water, Earth, Fire, Nature, and Air), and five classes (Fighter, Guardian, Rogue, Psion, and Empath), each with their own special abilities and hybrid synergies.
The mobile role-playing game Guild Of Guardians allows players to create their own group of “Guardians” and compete in a guild to win amazing prizes. At its core, it unites the gameplay of RAN Online, Ragnarok, Diablo, and World of Warcraft.
Based on their individual qualities, the Guardians work together as a team in a way that complements one another. Each Guardian has an associated faction, class, and elemental characteristic that add up when combined with those of other Guardians. For instance, a team made up of Hordes may have a raw attack bonus, whereas a team made up entirely of fire components would have a better probability of doing damage gradually. As in conventional RPG games, the game also assigns Guardians to positions like tank, healer, DPS, and support.
Play-to-Earn (P2E) meme coin TamaDoge (TAMA) is one of the most talked-about in the cryptocurrency world right now. You may mint, breed, and combat your TamaDoge pets in the metaverse with TAMA, which mixes NFT trading with virtual pets.
The Tamadoge pets that may be acquired as NFTs are the focus of the project. These pets are originally newborns, and the player’s responsibility is to care for, feed, and train them until they are adults and serve as a special NFT, representing the player. These gamers will then play arcade games, competing against other players if necessary, trying to climb the leaderboard and win prizes.
Dogepoints, which may be exchanged into TAMA tokens, the native token of the project driving the economy, are used to pay rewards on the site. Purchases at the Tama shop, such as getting new pets and other in-game assets, can be made with TAMA tokens.
In the Calvaria game, three armies — Santa Muerte, Quetzalcoatl, and the Void — fight over the ethereal realm in Calvaria, which is set in the afterlife. Gamers select a fraction and assemble troops to engage in combat. In other words, gamers rule the battlefield as generals in the army.
The afterlife’s mysteries are made known to them after they begin engaging in combat with other players and earning prizes. Those who outsmart their opponents by putting together the proper combination of cards become ultimate winners. Also, each card represents a different personality and has its own set of skills and 3D character representations that it may use on the field.
Each player has their own deck of cards, so they may collect a special collection of tools and build their own strategy. The materials may be purchased by players both in-game and on the open market outside. Moreover, players may always sell their resources to other players.
Battle Infinity (IBAT) is a decentralized blockchain multiplayer gaming platform that leverages the benefits of NFT and the metaverse to allow fantasy sports players to earn crypto for managing teams and competing against others.
Unlike other blockchain gaming platforms, Battle Infinity offers players access to multiple P2E fantasy sports games, including cricket, basketball, football, rugby, and boxing. The IBAT platform allows players to build strategic teams and battle against other players for the ultimate prize.
Since Battle Infinity utilizes non-fungible tokens, players are rewarded with in-game assets, which are tokenized digital collectibles that they can sell to other players via the platform’s in-house marketplace. The latter gives users access to items like avatars and weapons: the value of in-game objects varies according to their rarity.
There are two parts to the Combat Market. The first segment enables artists to mint, purchase, advertise, and sell their works in the IBAT metaverse’s Battle Arena, on billboards, and on lands. Contrarily, the second area enables users to purchase, improve, and sell their in-game characters, games, lands, and other stuff.
Tired of battles and endless map explorations? How about competing in a different way? Silks is a brand-new, cutting-edge blockchain game that lets users take part in virtual horse breeding and racing. By mixing skills and strategy with data from real thoroughbred racehorses linked to NFTs, players receive tokens when their horse wins a race or breeds. The Silks metaverse that mimics authentic thoroughbred horse racing, and it is intended to democratize thoroughbred racehorse ownership for the general public.
The digital horses that players own in Silks are NFTs that are equivalent to some of the finest American-registered thoroughbred racehorses. Players receive token incentives ($STT) as their virtual counterparts win races or breed, and the horses keep track of their bloodlines, on-track performance, and training development.
NFT horses are available for players to buy, collect, trade, and engage with. Players may purchase and build land, horse farms, and other virtual properties with the game’s cash in addition to competing against other horses.
One of the most hyped MMORPGs, the Ember Sword game is being created by Bright Star Studios. Players are free to explore new territories, engage in combat, and trade goods in this MMORPG that is similar to RuneScape thanks to a thriving player-driven economy (some items will come out in the form of NFTs).
There are four proposed nations in the game: Solarwood, Duskerton, Sevrend, and Ediseau. The action of the game takes place on the dystopian moon Thanabus. In order to level up their characters and locate NFT goods to sell on the market, players may cooperate with their guilds in tasks. They can also engage in battle to acquire precious NFTs. They may also possess land lots for further benefits.
Ember Sword has an advantage over games like Axie Infinity and CryptoBlades: players don’t need to pay to start playing and earning. The benefits of owning property, however, seem to outweigh the costs of acquisition. The earning potential of landowners and that of average residents may differ significantly. Nonetheless, Ember Sword promises users that they will be able to start playing with zero investments.
AAA graphics quality is one of distinguishing features of new-generation blockchain-based games. If you’re looking for a combination of thought-through gameplay, fascinating post-apocalypse visuals, and mind-blowing plot, opt for Shrapnel — the first AAA FPS blockchain game.
Players in Shrapnel’s novel employ NFT weapons and equipment to engage in combat and search for exclusive drops in The Zone, a highly hostile environment. The UGC tool created by Shrapnel and based on Unreal 5 Engine may be used to create and alter vanity items, cosmetics, and maps.
Shrapnel provides a wide variety of NFTs that are aimed towards different stakeholders, including gamers, artists, curators, and investors. The game is deployed on the Avalanche network, which provides premium gameplay with low latency, EVM compatibility, AAA graphics quality, and in-game asset trade.
The star crew behind the video game has won BAFTA and Emmy awards and has previously worked on successful series like HALO, Call of Duty, Star Wars, Hawken, Skylenders, etc. Sounds very promising!
Summing up
With the community’s focus switching from play-and-earn and play-to-own concepts to more complex blockchain games, I’m pretty sure we will witness an influx of cool projects. Their functionality will go well beyond NFT collecting and daily assignments, bringing gamers out-of-this-world experience that feels much more rewarding than crypto cash in their wallets. Try some of the games I’ve mentioned and you will understand what I’m talking about!
