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…
Pirate Nation died twice. The game went offline on September 18, 2025 — nearly a year before its developer, Proof of Play, announced on August 4–5, 2026 that the studio itself was ceasing operations. Keeping those two events separate is the key to understanding what happened to the NFTs, the token, the code and the…
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….
“Axie Infinity” isn’t one game anymore. In 2026 the name covers three distinct experiences — a live competitive card battler, a land game that has already sunset, and the original Classic now moving toward community control. This guide separates them and shows what actually exists today. At a glance The Axie games sit in three…
Gods Unchained is a trading card game in the classic TCG mould — and one of the few blockchain games where the free cards are actually enough to learn and compete. You can be in a ranked match ten minutes after downloading, wallet-free. Here’s the start-to-first-match path. What it is A fantasy TCG where cards…
Axie Infinity: Origins is the current flagship of the Axie universe — a card-battler with a genuinely free start: download, take three non-NFT starter axies, and you’re playing without spending anything. Here’s the path from install to first match. Which Axie is which, today The Axie name covers several things, and two of them are…
Pixels is the easiest verified blockchain game to start in 2026: a farming and life sim that runs entirely in your browser, takes an email sign-up, and doesn’t require a wallet unless you want to own assets. Here’s the practical path from zero to playing. What Pixels is Pixels is a pixel-art farming and social…
Blockchain games die quietly. The website stays up, the token still trades, and nobody announces “the game is dead” — so most directories keep listing projects that stopped years ago. Here’s how to check a game’s real status yourself, and how our registry labels what it finds. Why “is it dead” is harder than it…
“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…
Blockchain games are still just games. Some are good, most are dead, and a small number are genuinely worth a player’s time in 2026. This is the practical starting path — what you need, what you don’t, and which verified titles are easiest to enter first. What “blockchain game” actually means for a player Under…