A game can be struggling for months before anyone calls it dead — and the internet is full of confident verdicts based on a single data point. This guide teaches the investigative middle ground: which signals actually indicate decline, which are false alarms, and how to combine them before an official announcement exists. If you’re…
Splinterlands is a card-battler on the Hive blockchain — and yes, you can genuinely start for free. A free account gets you through the tutorial Campaign and into Frontier, the beginner format where you earn your first cards, all without a wallet or a purchase. The paid layer exists, but it’s a choice you make…
Off The Grid is one of the most-streamed “NFT games” — and also one of the most misunderstood. Gunzilla Games’ own FAQ states it directly: it is a battle royale with an optional NFT element, playable entirely without touching crypto. This guide covers the actual beginner path — where to get it, what an account…
Illuvium isn’t one game — it’s a franchise of connected products at different stages, and the “how do I start” answer depends entirely on which one you mean. The short version for 2026: Arena is the free public entry point, Zero is the free companion city-builder, Beyond is the browser collectible experience, and Obelisk Rising…
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…
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…
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…
Does paying to start an NFT game make it likelier to survive? Across the 165-record registry, the answer is flatly no — and the honest version is more interesting than either marketing story. Charging entry never protected a game; the specific place a game put its NFT layer did. The numbers, by access model “Endings”…