Polygon was blockchain gaming’s home chain in the 2021–22 wave — cheap gas, EVM compatibility, the default answer to “where do game assets live.” Its registry cluster tells the other half of that story: eleven tracked games, and not one confirmed living — five shut down, one sunset, one paused, four gone quiet. This is…
Blockchain gaming is eleven years old — older than most people assume, and stranger than the “Axie, then everything died” version. The NFTVideoGames registry now holds dated, evidence-backed records for 165 games whose playable dates span 2017 to this month — asset-tokenization history reaching back to 2015: the games that invented the genre’s mechanics, the…
In 2024, Telegram became the largest game-distribution event blockchain gaming has ever produced: tap-to-earn mini-apps that needed no download, no wallet and no crypto knowledge pulled in claimed audiences of 35, 47, 63 and 300 million players. The NFTVideoGames registry tracks four verified TON records from that wave. Eighteen months on, the measured answer is…
My Pet Hooligan is a paid early-access social shooter — a chaotic cartoon open-world where your hooligan causes mayhem against AMGI’s AI overlord. The honest framing: it’s one of the few “NFT game” cases where the blockchain layer is in transition — development restarted in January 2026 after downtime, the Polygon contract ended in 2025…
NFL Rivals is the NFL’s officially licensed arcade football game for phones — free to play, built by Mythical Games, and quietly the most mainstream on-ramp to NFT player cards anywhere. The start is simple: install the official app, play, and ignore the web3 layer entirely until you want it. The game’s Year 3 rebuild…
FIFA Rivals is the officially licensed FIFA arcade football game for phones — free, built by Mythical Games, and currently mid-season: the Fresh Ink 2026 season kicked off September 17, with weekly content running year-round. The start is a straight line: install the official app, play, and leave the NFT layer alone until you actually…
Catizen is Telegram’s top-grossing game — a cat-merging mini-app that grew into a 30-title Game Center. Starting takes one tap inside Telegram and costs nothing; the honest version is that it’s a free casual game with an optional token layer, not an income — the CATI earn window peaked with the 2024 airdrop. What Catizen…
Ethereum mainnet is where blockchain gaming’s oldest assets still live — and almost nobody builds games there anymore. Our twelve tracked records split three ways: the living worlds and RPGs that kept small persistent audiences, the endings that closed on record, and the ones gone quiet. The cluster is small on purpose — Ethereum’s gas…
Avalanche is the quietest major chain in the registry — no hype cycle, and five of seven tracked games still living. That is not magic. Four of the five arrived on Avalanche after their original platforms failed or were never born there at all — the chain is where survivors went. The counter-examples are its…
Arbitrum is the mirror image of Avalanche in our registry: four tracked games, and not one confirmed thriving. A dead chain operator, a quiet unicorn, and two orphans of the Treasure DAO collapse — this is what a gaming chain looks like when the games leave, not when they arrive. The cluster at a glance…