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In first place in our list is Axie Infinity
Launched in Mar. 2018, Axie Infinity set the stage for the entire NFT gaming space.
Headed by Trung Nguyen, Sky Mavis, the Vietnam-based team, pioneered a highly addictive NFT game
that many now use as an income source.
Presently, Axie Infinity boasts over 2.7 million active monthly players, exploding in popularity
as of Sep. 2020.
Since then, Axie Infinity has become a mini-economy of its own, having generated $2.3 billion
in revenue.
In fact, its own marketplace is second to only OpenSea, at $3.94 billion total trading
volume.
Axie Infinity is all about engaging in tactical, ability-based combat.
The player takes control of three Axies, fantastical, rotund creatures, which are also tradeable
NFTs.
Players receive Smooth Love Potion as a reward for winning battles.
This is the in-game resource and a tradable token used to evolve Axies, just like one
would do with Pokémon.
Each Axie has four main attributes that are amenable to evolution: health, speed, skill,
and morale.
In turn, these attributes determine Axie’s performance in combat.
Predictably, those Axies with the highest performance score, receive the highest price
on the Axie Infinity NFT marketplace.
Furthermore, although 2D, Axie is a complex metaverse, consisting of crafting, land plots,
biomes, roads, farms, potions shops, etc.
In second place is DeFi Kingdoms DeFi Kingdoms is a newcomer to the blockchain
gaming scene, released on Aug. 22, 2021.
However, it was primarily launched as a decentralized exchange for yield farming.
Reminiscent of a pixelated King’s Bounty from the 1990s, the clue is in the title.
DeFi Kingdoms is a gamified, visualized decentralized finance protocol, as if Uniswap suddenly got
a medieval aesthetic.
Over the course of last month, nearly 160k users have been engaged in blockchain-based
kingdom management, conducting a $1.68 billion trading volume across 8.14 million transactions.
These transactions are powered by the Harmony network.
It uses sharding as a scalability solution to create parallel chains, which then connect
to Ethereum, Avalanche, and Binance.
The economic power of Kingdoms revolves around the JEWEL token, used in:
Token swapping within its DEX
Staking as liquidity providers within in-game’s Garden and Bank.
While the Bank allows for staking in exchange for dividends, the Garden provides land plots
based on the size of the staked token pool.
NFTs as interactive heroes for-hire alongside land plots.
Each hero has RPG-like stats and traits, including pets.
The third position is Gods Unchained
Gods Unchained is a trading card game trying to mirror the success of Magic: The Gathering.
After raising $15 million in 2018 by selling millions of cards, brothers James and Robbie
Ferguson have created a triple-A card collecting and battle experience akin to Blizzard’s
Hearthstone.
In fact, those who have played Hearthstone will feel right at home.
Interestingly, Chris Clay is the game’s director, previously having worked on Magic:
The Gathering Arena, Lord of the Rings Online, Asheron’s Call, and Infinite Crisis MOBA.
Other team members have a similarly impressive background from Google and Riot Games.
Gods Unchained is just getting started with over $17 million worth of cards exchanged.
Next to tradeadable NFT cards is the GODS token, the game’s native coin.
Players earn GODS by playing the game and winning tournaments.
Then, they can use GODS to craft new cards, buy chests and card packs, or stake the token
to earn yield rewards.
The fourth place in our ranking is Alien Worlds
Alien Worlds is similar to DeFi Kingdoms, but in space.
Sarojini McKenna and Michael Yeates have deployed this sci-fi NFT game over three blockchains
so far — Ethereum, Wax, and Binance Smart Chain.
Across the blockchains, Alien Worlds metaverse crossed the one million user count threshold
as of Sep. 2021, being the first blockchain game to break the 100k user ceiling.
What’s special about Alien Worlds is its real-world background.
Namely, McKenna and Yeates tried to install a decentralized governance system in Liberland,
a no man’s land on the border between Croatia and Serbia.
With this knowledge in hand, they created Alien Worlds as a system of DAOs — decentralized
autonomous organizations — spread across six planets.
As you might imagine, such governance simulation can get complicated.
Simplified, players mine Trilium, the game’s native token.
Trilium gives them DAO voting rights, staking, and weekly planetary elections.
Based on their TLM pool, they exert their voting influence in picking council candidates,
or they can themselves run for planetary council.
In turn, council members decide how the planetary treasury is distributed.
In fifth place, or last on our list, is Mines of Dalarnia
Mines of Dalarnia is hailed to be the next Axie Infinity.
Developed by two blockchain startups, Workinman Interactive and Chromia Studios, the game
launched in Nov. 2021.
MoD is the first 2D blockchain with procedurally generated levels.
The player actively controls a miner, similar to an arcade platformer game.
With each mine run, the player collects various resources, artifacts, and rare relics.
These are then employed for crafting and combat.
Likewise, there are different biomes to explore: Terra, Lava, Ice, and Darkness.
Once you go from mining to crafting weapons, you have to fight various monsters to gather items.
Unfortunately, the deeper the mines, the tougher the enemy encounters alongside their unique
attack types.
Just like in Axie Infinity, players can also buy land plots with the game’s main token
DAR, first launched on Binance Smart Chain.
These land NFTs can be rented in exchange for DAR rewards, used for DAR giveaways, or
for resource airdrops.
The maximum DAR supply is 800 million coins.
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