Before you download anything, it’s worth understanding the one thing that makes blockchain games different: the wallet. Short answer — you usually don’t need a crypto wallet to start playing. Most blockchain games are account-first: create a login, download, play. The wallet only enters the picture when you want to own, trade, or claim assets….
Does the kind of game track with whether an NFT game is still alive? Across the registry’s 165 records, the descriptive answer is yes: the living share by primary genre ranges more than three-to-one in this snapshot — MMO has the highest living share (15 of 19 records, 79%) and sports the second-highest (7 of…
Did the chain decide whether an NFT game lived? Across the registry’s 165 records, the honest answer is: the chain didn’t kill them, but it didn’t save them either — survival tracks who a chain hosted, not the chain itself. Measured by verified status, the spread is real: Polygon carries the deadliest cohort (7 of…
“The game moved to another blockchain” sounds like one event. In practice it can mean several very different things — cards bridged to a new network, balances moved to a different chain than the assets, contracts redeployed while old ones freeze, or a game shut down entirely while its assets were absorbed into a wider…
When a blockchain game closes, your NFTs usually stay on-chain — but “still existing” is not the same as “still useful.” What happens to game assets depends on how the game ends: a sunset with a successor, a studio collapse, a marketplace closure or a community takeover all produce different outcomes for the same wallet….
When a blockchain game ends, the token in your wallet usually still exists — the question is whether it still does anything. Our lifecycle article asks what happened to the game; this one asks what happened to the player’s assets. Using the forty-five documented endings in our verified registry, the honest answer is: it depends…
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…
In 2021, “play-to-earn” was the pitch that put millions of wallets into games — Axie’s SLP economy, STEPN’s sneakers, the BNB bomber clones. Five years on, our registry gives a concrete answer to what happened to that generation: most of the era’s flagship titles are still running, but almost none of them still run on…
“NFT game” assets get described with a lot of noise. Strip it back: a game NFT is simply an in-game item recorded on a blockchain instead of only in the developer’s database. What that actually buys you — playability, tradability, or nothing at all — varies enormously per game. This is the mechanics-level version. The…
The NFTVideoGames registry passed a hundred tracked games on September 22, 2026 — 103 records, each carrying a status verified against primary sources and a dated re-review. This is a snapshot of what that set contains as of that date: who is alive, who is not, who is dying, and what the distribution says about…