Written by: Gu Wo, Hei Mi

Produced by: Baize Research Institute

Games based on the underlying technology of the blockchain are being sought after, and new and old players are constantly pouring in. According to data from Dappradar, on November 28 alone, the number of online users of blockchain games reached 1.22 million, and the daily transaction volume reached 120 million US dollars.

For any player with game experience, most of the blockchain games currently on the market are not playable, and the game mechanism is not perfect. All of these have led to chain games being often ridiculed as blockchain gamification rather than game blockchainization. It has little appeal to real gamers, but is sought after by investors. The reason why it can attract investors is because it uses the concepts of GameFi and P2E to develop games.

As we discussed in the previous article "Blockchain Games Expanding to Playability", even if the blockchain game studio makes a game that meets all values, if it is not fun, players will not pay for it , not to mention the consensus of the community and the value of game assets. So going back to the essence of the game, with playability, we can attract more players to enter while retaining existing players, or even "out of the circle", so that mainstream players can accept it.

Today, in the overwhelming publicity of blockchain games, it is more about players earning money by playing games, rather than promoting how fun the game is. Most of the current chain games are not playable, they are only built from the perspective of P2E profitability, and most players do not consider the richness of this game at all, and they are all based on popularity.

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Multiplayer

Benchmark League of Legends

"League of Legends" is currently the most popular multiplayer online competitive game. It does not need too much introduction. It has a large number of loyal fans in different countries, and in the past 12 years, the popularity of the game has remained high. It's hard to find a game that can really surpass the popularity of League of Legends.

In the blockchain world, a blockchain game called "Thetan Arena" is called "League of Legends Chain Game Edition" by players. As the name suggests, the game is similar to League of Legends, but each character is minted as an NFT. This means that players can actually own them, even if the game is offline, the characters still exist.

Official website: https://thetanarena.com/

Another blockchain game is "Zuki Moba", which adapts the snowball game, a traditional Japanese sports game, into a video game. According to the description on the official website, this is a game similar to the snowball game, with a decentralized economic application Community-driven MOBA esports game (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena). In-game NFTs can be used to build characters, game items, and metaverse structures. In addition, the P2E mechanism is adopted to create benefits for players.

Note: Snowball game is a Japanese sports game of fighting with snowballs. It is played by two teams, each team has seven players. The game is played on a specific field, and the players are hit by the opponent's snowballs. will be eliminated afterwards.

However, judging from the screenshots of the game, this game is more like "League of Legends" or "Glory of the King". Although the game has not been launched yet, it has won the favor of Huobi, X21 and other investment institutions.

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Card Battle

Benchmark Hearthstone

"Hearthstone" is a free game. The story background is based on the world view of the Warcraft series. Players can purchase card packs by themselves. Players will choose ten professional "heroes" as the protagonist, similar to the occupations in World of Warcraft. Most of the game modes are based on the traditional 1v1 method (the heroic battlefield mode is to change opponents every round), and players cannot trade cards.

The game "Deviants Factions" built on the Terra public chain is benchmarked against "Hearthstone". This is a collectible P2E card battle game. Each card is an NFT. Players can freely upgrade and trade cards , NFT pre-sale is currently underway.

The game provides players with 4 factions of character cards, including the Awakened, Entropy, Inhumans and Masters, each of which will have unique skills and combat power. Players fight against each other by using 8 selected cards and offensive and defensive strategies, and they are the winners after destroying the opponent's base. However, whether you win or lose, players will receive certain rewards. The game provides players with an immersive narrative experience, creating an unreal interpretation that allows players to better integrate into it. The more friendly function is that the game will provide players with AI substitute function, and they can continue to earn rewards even when they are offline.

Official website: https://deviantsfactions.com/

Secondly, "Skyweaver", developed by Horizon Blockchain Games, a blockchain game studio invested by Ubisoft, is also a chain game of this type. This is a free-to-play card game where players can own, trade and gift cards (NFT). Combining in-depth strategy gameplay with player assets (NFT), you can win more cards in the battle.

Official website: https://www.skyweaver.net/

The blockchain game "Gods unchained" is also similar to "Hearthstone". As a free tactical card game, card NFT allows players to truly own the ownership of in-game items. Players must strategically outmaneuver their opponents by building decks that can handle a variety of tactics. Likewise, players are free to trade, sell and use their cards.

The game is built on Immutable X, the second-tier network of Ethereum, which is relatively popular recently, and has long been favored by investment institutions such as LD and IOSG.

Official website: https://godsunchained.com/

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3D shooting class

Benchmarking PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

"PUBG" (PUBG) is a tactical competitive shooting sandbox game developed by South Korea's Krafton Studio. In this game, players need to collect various resources on the game map, and fight against other players in the ever-shrinking "drug circle", so that they can survive to the end. According to official data, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds had 3.148 million players online at the same time at its peak, setting a historical record.

Blockchain game developer Satoshis Game has developed a multiplayer battle royale survival game called “Lightnite,” featuring first and third-person shooters. In the game, players have to fight each other, and killing players can get the bitcoins dropped by the players, and these rewards will be paid in real time through the Bitcoin Lightning Network. The technology behind "Lightnite" is the Lightning Network (Bitcoin transaction layer). To integrate Bitcoin micro-transactions into the game, the only thing players need to do is download a wallet that supports Lightning Network.

Official website: https://lightnite.io/

Another battle royale blockchain game is called "Last Survivor", which is a third-person game. According to the gameplay provided by the official website, players can use various weapons (NFT) to kill other players, and the last player on the entire map will win. The game is divided into various modes, such as single-player mode, double-player mode, team battle, etc., and there is no need to pay to enter the game. Although the game is not yet online, it has already won the favor of investment institutions such as X21 and AU21.

Official website: https://lastsurvivor.io/

A title called "Polygonum online" is also noteworthy. This game can be understood as an open-ended "PUBG Mobile", which has three modes: farm (single player mission), PVE (challenge Boss) and PVP (player versus player, zombie mode). You can get rewards every time you kill players and Bosses. Rewards game items and resources (NFTs) that can be used for crafting.

Official website: https://polygonum.online/

Benchmarking Cs:go

"CS: GO" has a similar first-person shooter gameplay to its predecessor "CS". Players can choose between counter-strikes and terrorists. The goal is to destroy the enemy, or complete the task of the map within the time limit.

Earlier this month, the blockchain game studio Faraway received a total of $30 million in Series A financing to develop a web-based first-person multiplayer shooting game on the Solana blockchain. By making web-based games, the Removing constraints on computer hardware, lower barriers to entry will encourage mass adoption by online gamers. Additionally, this accessibility allows native integration with existing Web3 wallets. It is reported that this round of financing is led by the encrypted derivatives exchange FTX, and other supporters include well-known venture capital institutions Pantera Capital, Sequoia Capital and A16z.

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action adventure

Benchmark World of Warcraft

"World of Warcraft" is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game produced by Blizzard. After it was officially released in 2005, it has become popular all over the world. "World of Warcraft" has greatly promoted the development of the online game industry.

The blockchain game "Mist" benchmarks this classic game. Mist is an open world action RPG with a unique dynamic combat style. In this game, players can collect items and equipment (NFT), fight epic monsters, and explore infinite immersive environments. According to the investigation of the Baize Research Institute, the game currently has a large number of chain game players overseas, but it has only been demonstrated in the form of a live broadcast this month, and the beta version has not yet been released. However, judging from the demo video and official introduction, the game has begun to have the three elements that an RPG game should include: preset environment + core rules of gameplay + original fun.

Official website: https://mist.game/

Another blockchain game "Legends of the Dexiverse" is also of this type. The game is officially developed by DEXI. Players need to collect assets throughout the universe and send them back to Earth. There are many characters and dozens of maps for players to explore and collect much-needed supplies (NFT). The game supports multiple modes such as single player exploration and multiplayer battle. In addition, the studio also has games such as "Dexi Knights" and "VR Hunting", which are also worthy of players' attention.

Official website: https://dexioprotocol.com/dexi-gaming/

Also worth watching is Illuvium, built on Immutable X, which combines action-adventure with auto-combat. The game will provide players with an open world where players can explore, dig, capture pets and fight with enemies. Not only is it an adventure, but players must combine certain strategies in multiplayer battles to make up for their own weaknesses according to the unique occupations and combat power of different characters.

Official website: https://iluvium.io/

Benchmarking Red Dead Redemption

Red Dead Redemption is an open-world western action-adventure game series in which players see pioneer towns, vast prairies, and mountainous terrain. In addition to exciting gun battles and fighting, players can also meet many characters with different personalities in the game, and experience the struggle with them in the last wilderness of the American West.

The blockchain game "Gold fever" benchmarks this game. The core of "Gold Fever" is a multiplayer online role-playing game that allows players to truly own rare in-game items (NFT), such as characters, weapons and artificial intelligence. products. The top end game developed by Unreal Engine 5 closely follows the mainstream games, and it may be the chain game with the best picture quality at present.

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role playing game

Benchmark Onmyoji

"Onmyoji" is a 3D Japanese-style turn-based combat mobile game launched by NetEase in 2016. It is set in the Heian period of Japan. Players will play an onmyoji whose duty is to exterminate monsters. The gods participate in the battle together as combat units.

The blockchain game "Defina" is similar to "Onmyoji". Based on the characteristics of the role-playing game, it incorporates DeFi, NFT and other elements. Players can control heroes to multiplayer battles, and each hero is an NFT. Different heroes will have corresponding attributes, and NFTs can be upgraded to enhance combat power. There are 4 modes in the game, PVE (team copy), PVP (mineral mining), PVP (player-to-player battle) and squid game mode (under development).

Official website: https://defina.finance/

Targeting famine

"Famine" is an open world survival game developed by Canada-based Klei Entertainment. The game revolves around a scientist named Wilson who finds himself in a dark and shadowy world and must survive for as long as possible. To do this, players must keep Wilson healthy, fed, and mentally stable while avoiding various surreal and supernatural enemies from killing and devouring him.

The blockchain game "Continuum world" is similar in gameplay and style to "Famine". Players can explore in the game world and build buildings to collect resources, upgrade, compete, socialize and earn rewards.

Official website: https://continuum.world/

Against the King of Fighters

The 2D fighting game "The King of Fighters" does not need to be introduced too much. I believe it is a childhood memory of many people.

A mobile blockchain game called "Rooster Battle" adopts a similar style. As the name suggests, players will control roosters to fight, but only in PVP mode, players can only fight with each other. It is understood that the game was released in the IOS app store in Vietnam in 2013 and became the most downloaded app in Vietnam in the same year.

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leisure

Benchmark QQ game

"QQ Game" was born in 2003. It is the first self-developed game product of the Chinese game giant Tencent, and it is also the world's largest "casual game community platform". It has more than 100 game categories, 200 million active users, and the highest number of simultaneous online More than 8 million. The platform has covered chess and mahjong, leisure sports, board games, strategy, development, simulation management, role-playing and other game types.

As mentioned earlier, GAMEE, a branch of Animoca Brands, a chain game studio invested by Ubisoft, has developed a mobile game platform called Arc8, which is suitable for Android and iOS systems. Its beta version attracted 1 million users in September. It covers chess, board games, strategy and other game types. The platform allows users to earn their native tokens by playing these mini-games. According to data from the official website, players on the Arc8 game platform have accumulated 5.2 billion games so far.

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sports strategy

MonkeyBall

"MonkeyBall" is a fast-paced turn-based football game built on the Solana public chain. It focuses on strategy. The official complained that the game is "easy to learn but difficult to play". In the game, players will control a team of four monkeys, each with innate abilities that make them best for each position -- forward, defender, midfielder, and goalkeeper. The two teams play 12 rounds, and a round ends when both teams complete their rounds. During each turn, each team can perform actions such as moving players, dribbling, passing or shooting. Of course, each monkey is an NFT and can be traded.

Official website: https://www.monkeyball.com/

Meta Soccer

MetaSoccer is a football world game, I think it is more similar to the career mode in the 3A football game masterpiece "FIFA". ) and financial management, as well as the ability to train the team, every player in the game will be an NFT. In addition, players can also play against other players or friends in the career mode. Of course, it is not an actual combat, but a statistical simulation.

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little thinking

With the explosion of the metaverse concept, the blockchain game market is increasing day by day. How to let more people get in touch with blockchain games has become a problem that needs to be considered now. After all, there are not a few people who are skeptical about blockchain technology. At the same time, the quality of chain games currently on the market is uneven, and most of them have problems such as low playability and imperfect economic systems, which have formed a huge obstacle to the development of chain games.

Of course, the dozen or so blockchain games mentioned in this article are only a few. Even so, most of them have received more or less financing. I believe that there will be more blockchain games with more gameplay in the future.

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