With the world changing faster than ever before, we’ve seen how the world of gaming goes along with it. Now we find ourselves looking forward to the latest and most advanced NFT games that could offer us the best experience at both gameplay and earning real money. So, here’s a list of some of the top-dog NFT games to watch out for in 2022.
The Sandbox Blockchain
Blockchain: Ethereum
Play to earn: Yes
Free-to-play: Yes
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Android, iOS
The Sandbox is essentially a player-owned virtual world where players can purchase and monetize their land wherein they can create fun activities and NFTs. Some of the well-known and recognized gaming companies have actually already bought tons of land on the platform. Atari, for one, has bought up a large portion of land on The Sandbox.
But it’s not just gaming companies that took the dive into this metaverse. Just recently, the popular German sporting goods manufacturing giant Adidas partnered with The Sandbox. The SAND token surged 25% after the company tweeted about their partnership.
The game is not fully released yet, but you can experience the gameplay now. Simply download the Level editor. It allows you to play some of the levels that other players within the platform have already made. The Sandbox, beyond this player ownership, player-developed worlds, promises to have play-to-earn mechanics as well. Gamers and NFT game investors alike are so hyped about its relaunch and amazing new features.
Echoes of Empire
Blockchain: Ethereum
Play to earn: Yes
Free-to-play: Yes
Platforms: Mac, PC
This 4X sci-fi strategy game was developed by the game studio Ion Games and is one of the most highly-anticipated NFT games in the Gala Games ecosystem. Echoes of Empire’s story takes place in a galaxy in a not-too-distant future where players gather resources, build spaceships, slay enemies, and conquer galactic regions.
This game will feature play-to-earn mechanics, with real ownership and rarity in the form of NFTs. Although it’s been rumored to launch around late 2022 or early 2023, the game hasn’t given an official announcement on the final release date yet. Stay tuned to stay up to date about the latest news on this game.
Doctor Who: Worlds Apart
Blockchain: Ethereum
Play to earn: Yes
Free-to-play: Yes
Platforms: Mac, PC
If you’re into games with a familiar brand, this one should ring a bell. Doctor Who: Worlds Apart is a TCG developed by Reality Gaming Group, a British game studio. It was licensed by BBC Studios, the same studio that produced the popular television series Doctor Who. The game interface features unique artwork from the series from its early to modern-day settings.
The game follows the same story portrayed in the science-fiction TV series. It’s about a time lord called ‘The Doctor,’ an extraterrestrial being with a human form who uses a time travel machine called Tardis to travel through time and space. In the game, the players will build a deck to battle against other players in one-on-one matches.
What sets this TCG apart, besides its well-established brand, is its customization. With its versatile game card system, the players are allowed to customize the look of their cards. The game is expected to begin its beta test run from late 2021 until the end of 2022. But if you’re already hyped to see the game, you can start building your decks now.
Ember Sword
Blockchain: Ethereum, Immutable-X
Play to earn: Yes
Free-to-play: Yes
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Mac
Ember Sword is an upcoming P2E Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game (MMORPG) developed and published by Bright Star Studios Limited. One of the highlights of this game is that it’s not going to have any play-to-win aspects, and the only items on the chain are the skins. These rare, invaluable skins can be obtained only by playing the game. This could mean that earning them will be a tough grind, especially if you’re used to other games that allow you to pay to progress in the story. You can, however, monetize the skins you win by selling them to other players.
Besides the skins, all of the in-game power and skill you have will also come from playing actively in the game like any traditional RPG. In hindsight, this game focuses more on the gameplay than earning. We’re excited to see how this works out for a massive play-to-earn game such as this one. Needless to say, Ember Sword is one of the crypto games that is most hyped right now.
Synergy of Serra
Blockchain: Polygon
Play to earn: Yes
Free-to-play: Yes
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Mac
Synergy of Serra is a play-to-earn TCG developed by the German studio Calystral. The game’s story is about defending your home planet, Serra, from an alien threat. You can play this game for free as soon as you receive your first 90 unique cards. Free players are also allowed full access to all of the game features, and they can gain the rewards earned by winning seasonal ranked games.
Since this is a strategy card game, players not only expand and build their decks as they progress; their strategies evolve and change as well, resulting in fun and unique battles.
The Synergy of Serra team aims to introduce frictionless gameplay, which means that wallets, plugins, or fees will not be required to play. But before that comes to fruition, the game will be relying on the Polygon blockchain for its NFT assets.
Illuvium
Blockchain: Ethereum, Immutable-X
Play to earn: Yes
Free-to-play: Yes
Platforms: Mac, PC
Illuvium is an up-and-coming open-world RPG universe inspired by the Pokemon series. The team behind it promises a high-class blockchain gaming experience exploring the play-to-earn models and the metaverse.
In the game, the players will be capturing Illuvials or NFT monsters they can collect, train, and battle against other monsters or those of other players. To catch them, you will need Shards, which is this game’s version of pokeballs.
The game is free to play but to actually earn from it, you will have to pay a small fee and generate value from your NFTs through your gaming skills. As for the gas fees to get it across, Immutable X is there to back up. Using it means zero gas fees for peer-to-peer trading and instant transactions. The game is going to launch in early 2022.
Spider Tank Project
Blockchain: Ethereum
Play to earn: Yes
Free-to-play: Yes
Platforms: Mac, PC
Another blockchain game coming to the Gala Games ecosystem is Spider Tank Project, the world’s first battle-to-earn esport. It’s a Massive Online Battle Arena (MOBA) style NFT game, where players purchase basic NFT tanks that they can level up by playing. You can then upgrade them into more powerful NFT tanks and sell them at a higher price to other players.
The time that you spend leveling up your tank adds value to it. You can then sell it to another player when it’s worth more. This play-to-earn concept is similar to that in Ember Sword. You are essentially selling not only the tank itself but the experience as well—the data stored in it. This game is set to fully launch at the very end of the fourth quarter of 2021.
Sipher
Blockchain: Ethereum
Play to earn: Yes
Free-to-play: No
Platforms: PC, Android, iOS
SIPHΞR is the PvE & PvP RPG open-world metaverse, one of the hottest topics in the blockchain gaming space this month. It’s a collaborative and competitive dungeon crawler battle-arena game with a great fun story a cast of characters with artwork based on animals.
The game’s storyline is clearly inspired by a thrilling sci-fi movie. It starts with a world facing a serious threat from dwindling resources, pollution, and other things that could potentially cause the end of the world. Because of this, scientists decided to develop a new universe called Sipheria that is currently inhabited by ten thousand Sipherians. These are organisms that resulted from a combination of ethereal elements and CRISPR-genome extraction. These meta-digital creatures will operate as the player’s avatar in-game.
Players will go on expeditions, fight player versus environment (PvE) battles, and player-versus-player (PvP) duels to earn NFT assets. The outfits and accessories of each Sipherian may be customizable but not their unique individual traits. These are determined by their genes, which allow them to have features that vary in rarity: normal, cyborg, infected, and cosmic.
Several giants in the gaming industry have already secured their share of this game including HASHED, one of the biggest investors of Axie Infinity, Decentraland, and The Sandbox. The public sale for these digital creatures will take place on the 6th of December on the official Sipher website, which is expected to last for 72 hours. So, if you are bullish on this game like us, mark your calendars now.
Guild of Guardians
Blockchain: Ethereum, Immutable-X
Play to earn: Yes
Free-to-play: Yes
Platforms: Android, iOS
Guild of Guardians or GoG is a Dungeons and Dragons-inspired mobile NFT role-playing game where you battle through dungeons with your team of guardians. These guardians sit on the blockchain as NFTs, as well as the loots, items you craft, and rewards you earn for clearing dungeons.
This is one of those top-down battle arena mobile games that have been hyped in the gaming industry for years now, except you earn crypto from playing this. The release date of Guild of Guardians hasn’t been specified yet, but it’s set to launch sometime in 2022. You can learn more about this game in our other post.
Star Atlas
Blockchain: Solana
Play to earn: Yes
Free-to-play: No
Platforms: PC
If you’re a space geek who wants to experience a galactic space exploration grand strategy game with AAA graphics, Star Atlas is perfect for you. It’s a much-awaited MMORPG set in an expansive limitless metaverse where players journey across—competing against other races for resources, territories, and power.
The players on this metaverse can obtain, create, and trade non-fungible tokens within the game. This sets up the players to enjoy an economy that reflects the tangibility, value, and ownership of real-world assets.
One of the key features that add up to the highly-anticipated gameplay is the support this game gets from Unreal Engine 5, giving the players an immersive visual gaming experience like no other. On top of that, it runs on the Solana blockchain, which provides a lightning-speed transaction.
This game is highly ambitious in terms of both gameplay and graphics. It might take the longest to come out and most likely will be the last to fully launch among all the games on this list. But the team behind this game is working to make it just as robust on the earning side as on the visual department. Take an in-depth dive into this massive crypto game or visit the official Star Atlas marketplace to have a look at some of the in-game items to expect.
More Games To Look Out For
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