Step-by-step guides for individual games: how to start, what things cost, and what to watch for.
“Dead NFT game” is a label that hides more than it explains. In the NFTVideoGames registry — a curated, evidence-dated set of 442 tracked games — one-hundred-and-ninety 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…
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…
Polygon was blockchain gaming’s home chain in the 2021–22 wave — cheap gas, EVM compatibility, the default answer to “where do game assets live.” Its registry cluster tells the other half of that story: thirty-six tracked games, with seven confirmed living — twelve shut down, one sunset, one paused, nine gone quiet, four pivoted away,…
DeFi Kingdoms is one of the longest-lived blockchain games — an RPG/economy hybrid that’s survived its own chain migration once and is mid-way through a second. The important part for starting now: the game’s dedicated chain just sunsetting is infrastructure news, not a shutdown. Here’s the current path in. The one thing to know first…
Avalanche is the quietest major chain in the registry — no hype cycle, and nine of seventeen tracked games still living. That is not magic. Four of the six 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…
Pixelverse is a casual game / RPG on TON — Telegram-native tap-and-battle ecosystem (2024) — PixelTap mini-app live inside Telegram. The honest entry cost: starting costs nothing, and a wallet is optional — only needed for the on-chain layer. What Pixelverse is A casual game / RPG from Pixelverse running on TON, playable on browser,…
Ethereum mainnet is where blockchain gaming’s oldest assets still live — and almost nobody builds games there anymore. Our sixty-five 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…
Immutable is the infrastructure layer behind Gods Unchained, Illuvium and a long tail of Web3 games — and in 2026 it finally became one thing: the old Immutable X was retired and everything now lives on a single zkEVM chain. Here’s what that means at player level. What Immutable is A games-focused Ethereum Layer-2 network…
Anichess is a strategy game on Base — Web3 chess with spell mechanics and Kingslay win conditions — Animoca + Chess.com collaboration, 1M+ players. The honest entry cost: starting costs nothing, and a wallet is optional — only needed for the on-chain layer. What Anichess is A strategy game from Animoca Brands x Chess.com running…
Infinity Rising is a metaverse / MMORPG on Cardano — Rebranded from Cornucopias — UE5 alpha builds shipping (0.3.6 'Home Bound'). The honest entry cost: the core game is free — spend is optional for assets or economy depth, and the game runs without a wallet — you need one only to hold or trade…