Shut down Verified 2026-10-11 Status last verified 2026-10-11 · next review due 2027-10-11 · how we verify 0xUniverse is a strategy blockchain game on Ethereum by 0xGames, first playable 2018. It runs on browser; free to start (owned assets are purchasable); a wallet is only required to own assets. In-game economy: playable assets NFTs; asset…
Blockchain games die in at least twenty-five documented ways. Coming back is rarer — but the verified registry now holds a dozen documented revival attempts: IP acquisitions, community takeovers, engine restarts, token rebuilds and chain hops. Some produced a genuinely living game. Most produced a holding pattern. This is what the record says about who…
“Dead NFT game” is a label that hides more than it explains. In the NFTVideoGames registry — a curated, evidence-dated set of 348 tracked games — one-hundred-and-thirty-five records sit in a non-living state, and they got there by forty distinct mechanisms. This piece explains what our lifecycle states actually mean, what the evidence behind them…
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…
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…
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 ninety documented endings in our verified registry, the honest answer is: it depends…
A licensed IP is supposed to be the safest foundation an NFT game can have — a built-in audience, real brands, official sanction. The registry’s licensed set tells a different story: a third of the twelve licensed-IP records have already ended, a worse share than the registry average — and in two of the four…
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”…
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…
“Is this game dead?” usually has a wrong assumption inside it — that dead and alive are the only two states. In the NFTVideoGames registry, 67 of 276 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…