Approaching the top of 2023, we’ve been having a look at which video games constructing on blockchain have been the most well-liked this 12 months; notably standard by means of conventional distribution platforms such because the app shops, Epic Video games Retailer and Steam.
NFL Rivals: 3 million cellular downloads
Legendary Video games’ American soccer sport NFL Rivals stands out as one of many earliest web3 video games to pattern on cellular. In an unique interview with BlockchainGamer.biz, CEO John Linden spoke in regards to the position Legendary has been entrusted by the likes of Apple, to affect the foundations round web3 gaming on the app shops. The sport is offered on the Apple App Retailer and Google Play retailer with the flexibility to purchase NFTs utilizing a brand new in-app forex.
Following the mushy launch in April 2023, NFL Rivals shortly gained traction and broke 1 million in NFT buying and selling quantity in addition to exceeded 2 million downloads in early September.
On the finish of November, the sport reported 3 million gamers by way of X.
9 Chronicles: 200,000 cellular downloads
Planetarium’s RPG 9 Chronicles rose to round 35,000 each day lively distinctive wallets throughout November by way of on-chain exercise.
Because the cellular launch of 9 Chronicles M on twenty second November nevertheless, the gamers continues to extend by the day. Up to now the sport has exceeded over 200,000 downloads on the app shops and has additionally turn into the #1 downloaded cellular RPG on the Korean Apple App Retailer.
Torque Drift 2: 200,000 PC downloads
Torque Drift 2, from Animoca Manufacturers-subsidiary Greasy Monkey Studio, was already off to a very good begin since launching early entry on Epic Video games Retailer to start with of of October. Since lately dropping its Nissan NFTs nevertheless, the PC sport has damaged 200,000 downloads.
Pixels: 115,000 DAUWs
A browser sport, so included right here for comparative functions, social farming RPG Pixels has seen a leap in progress and peaked at over 115,000 DAUWs because it launched on Sky Mavis’ Ronin blockchain. This quantity has since fallen again to round 85,000 (as of writing), however that’s largely right down to lively measures to deal with bots, which accounts for an estimated 40% of DAUWs.
Phantom Galaxies: 50,000 downloads
Lastly, since launching early entry on Epic Video games Retailer, Extremely and on Steam with a vanilla web2 model in the midst of November, mecha area title Phantom Galaxies from Animoca-owned Australian developer Blowfish has reached over 50,000 downloads.
For extra, take a look at our most anticipated blockchain video games.