“Paused” is the politest status a blockchain game can claim — servers off or development frozen, roadmap shelved, but an explicit promise that this is not the end. The NFTVideoGames registry carries ten paused records, and the measured pattern is uncomfortable: the only same-operator return in the set — Axie Classic‘s 2024 revival — is…
“Is this game dead?” usually has a wrong assumption inside it — that dead and alive are the only two states. In the NFTVideoGames registry, 49 of 165 tracked games sit in unknown: neither confirmed running nor confirmed ended. This piece explains what that status actually means, what the middle looks like in practice, and…
“Axie Infinity” stopped being a single game a while ago. In September 2026 it is a cluster of four distinct products on Ronin — one live service, one replaced world, one just handed to its community, and one still in playtests. This is the honest map of what each one is, who maintains it, and…
WAX (Worldwide Asset eXchange) is the chain that made “free NFT games” real before it was a slogan: a custodial Cloud Wallet with no seed phrase at signup, gas-free transactions, and game studios that shipped to mainstream audiences. Two of the five tracked WAX games are verified active — the other three are running but…
Solana attracted blockchain gaming’s biggest bets — AAA budgets, console ambitions, franchise licenses — and its headline records tell the most dramatic story on this site. The seven flagship cases below split almost perfectly by ambition level — four living, three dead or paused — which is exactly why the cluster is worth a guide….
Polkadot’s story in NFT gaming is really one publisher’s story: Mythical Games runs its own Polkadot-based network (Mythos), and every Polkadot game in our registry is either a Mythical title or a Mythical ecosystem neighbor. That makes the chain easy to summarize — and gives it the sharpest alive/dead split we track: two of the…
VulcanVerse is a free-to-download open-world MMORPG in open beta — you can walk its Greco-Roman fantasy map right now without buying anything; the land economy is the layer that costs. The honest framing: it’s the flagship of the wider Vulcan Forged ecosystem (a real platform with a dev blog that posts weekly), and it’s mid-migration…
Valannia is a browser-based medieval-fantasy strategy MMO on Solana — the rare web3 game you start by opening a tab, not by installing anything or setting up a wallet. It’s in early access, the core loop is playable now, and the $VALAN token economy is still being phased in — which makes “early” both the…
Upland is the easiest real-estate-style NFT game to try free: email-only signup, no wallet on day one, and your first property costs nothing. The honest catch — the in-game currency isn’t designed to be sold outside the platform, so treat it as a game first, a market second. What Upland is A persistent city-builder on…
Undead Blocks is the registry’s zombie-shooter with a genuinely good comeback story: a free-to-play FPS that went quiet, got acquired by Wagyu Games, and relaunched on Avalanche in July 2025 — soft launch live now. The honest split: the whole game is a free download and NFTs are optional cosmetics and loadouts; the earn layer…