Play to Earn (P2E) blockchain games with attractive themes will be the biggest trend in 2022, several crypto industry experts have pointed out.
In 2021, earning money for playing is no longer an exclusive benefit of e-Sport professionals and content creators, thanks to the introduction of technology blockchain and NFT to the powerful video game industry. Now, technically everyone has the same opportunity to generate economic income simply by playing. Gaming platforms like Axie Infinity, The Sandbox y Splinterlands They popularized the game mechanics Play-to-Earn o Play to win in 2021, attracting millions of users around the world with its rewards system in cryptocurrencies, and NFTs, which can be traded for hundreds or thousands of dollars across different marketplaces.
Now, in 2022, other titles promise to further drive and popularize this trend, to empower millions of people around the world with completely digital gaming economies.
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Play to Earn games with potential this 2022
Star atlas
Star atlas, the first blockchain and NFT game based on Solana, is a digital strategy game of space exploration, territorial conquest and political domination where players will be able to immerse themselves in a space adventure, set in the year 2060, to travel the cosmos and explore planets , collecting resources and obtaining NFTs in the process. Its creators use non-fungible tokens to guarantee digital ownership within the game. Star Atlas is developed on the open source graphics engine Unreal Engine 5, which provides a highly realistic and immersive experience.
The Star Atlas economy is developed based on two native tokens: ATLAS AND POLIS. The first is used to purchase digital items and objects, such as ships, equipment, crew, land, fuel, pay for repairs and more, in order to enhance the skills and abilities of players within the game. The POLIS token will serve the governance of the project, leaving the decision-making power over the economy and the future of the game in the hands of its own community.
Star Atlas will reproduce different futuristic environments, which will lead players to live all kinds of digital experiences, some more risky than others, where they will be able to generate greater profits. In Star Atlas, factions of humans, androids and aliens will fight to conquer the virtual world. The beta version of Star Atlas has been available since last month, while the full version is expected this first quarter.
Star Atlas' POLIS token is listed on the market with a value of $ 0,08 dollars, showing a growth of more than 30% in recent weeks.
Defi Kingdoms
Defi Kingdoms is a blockchain-based game that integrates the potential of decentralized finance (DeFi) to create usable NFTs. The vision of the creators of this digital game is to provide greater value and utility to their user communities, allowing them to use their NFTs in different financial products characteristic of the DeFi ecosystem, such as DEXs, liquidity pools, staking services and much more.
On its official website, DeFi Kingdoms defines itself as a digital game and DEX where players and users will be able to earn rewards in the form of tokens, become liquidity providers, farm and trade digital land, among other things.
DeFi Kingdoms is built to be a complete digital ecosystem where the community can carry out different events and activities. JEWEL is the game's governance token that can be used to purchase and trade NFTs within the platform. This token can be created and traded through the Harmony One platform, using the Uniswap V2 protocol.
Since September, JEWEL has appreciated more than 1.500%, trading above the $ 20,2 dollars at the time of this edition.
Guild of guardians
Guild of guardians is a free-to-play blockchain role-playing game that has been built since 2020 on ImmutableX and that uses NFTs to reward its players for their skills and time spent playing.
Guild Of Guardians players will be able to tokenize and convert different game items into NFTs within the platform, in addition to trading and exchanging them in its marketplace. The high-quality graphics and the theme of heroes and battles have been attracting the interest of thousands of users since last year. During the NFT launch, Guild Of Guardians developers managed to raise almost $10 million in sales. In its first week of release, Guild Of Guardians registered over 100.000 players and has minted over 250.000 NFTs to date. This blockchain game will be available to the public this first quarter.
Guild Of Guardians has its own token called GOG, created in the standard ERC-20 of Ethereum. GOG is the blockchain gaming reward token, which serves as a “gem” to unlock unique features and functionality within the platform, as well as for the minting of NFTs.
Through ImmutableX, Guild Of Guardians guarantees its players the ability to mint and trade NFTs without gas costs. In-game NFTs can also be used and displayed as avatars on other platforms and social networks. For this year, its creators, the company Stepico Games, will integrate new narratives, stories, characters and more, to continue providing value and usefulness to its community.
GOG price has fallen nearly 60% since last December, trading below $ 1,2 dollars per token currently. On December 22, its value exceeded $2,7 dollars.
rain
rain It's a gender game Role-Playing Game o RPG built on the blockchain Ethereum and implemented in ImmutableX, which will be released this year. Through this multiplatform digital game, users will be able to immerse themselves in a fantastic world where they can collect, fight and exchange mythical creatures called “Illuvials”. Players will need to form teams, battle others, and complete in-game missions and challenges to earn NFTs and ILV, the blockchain game's reward and governance token. Each Illuvium NFT has unique affinities and abilities that make them exclusive. The NFTs will be customized as players win battles and progress through the game.
One of the greatest features of Illuvium is that it integrates functions DeFi that allow players to generate returns from yield farming and carry out decentralized exchanges through a DEX own called IlluviDEX. Also, Illuvium players will be able to do staking with ILV tokens to generate higher rewards. In fact, the ILV tokens that players receive as rewards for yield farming They will remain locked for a period of one year before being used. However, players also have the option to bypass this block, exchanging their ILV tokens for sILV tokens; the latter can only be used within the game. ILV will have a maximum supply of 10 million tokens.
On the other hand, although Illuvium is built on the Ethereum blockchain, its players will not have to worry about high gas rates of this network. Like Guild Of Guardians, Illuvium uses ImmutableX to ensure scalability and secure P2P trading with zero commission fees.
Illuvium, developed by brothers Kieran and Aaron Warwick, has the backing and support of great industry leaders, such as Yield Guild Games (YYG), Chainlink, Bitcoin.com, SushiSwap, 1inch Network, Immutable, among others; In addition, it is part of the Blockchain Game Alliance.
The ILV token is currently trading with a value of $ 826,8 dollars per unit. Since November, its value has depreciated 56%.
Galaxy Fight Club
Self-proclaimed the first cross-IP PVP game for the NFT universe in real time, Galaxy Fight Club Galaxy Fight Club is a digital game where you can combine different characters and avatars in NFT format. Thanks to the innovation and interoperability that this video game allows, in Galaxy Fight Club it is possible to see avatars, such as the Bored Ape Yacht Club and the CryptoPunks, fighting each other within the same platform.
Galaxy Fight Club is a cross-platform fighting game, available for both PC and mobile, in which holders of different NFT collections can make their favorite characters fight to win rewards in GCOIN or ETH tokens, thanks to the Play to Earn mechanic . The pre-sale of GCOIN tokens brought together more than 20.000 users who signed up for the project's whitelist. Galaxy Fight Club raised a total of $10 million during the public sale.
To play Galaxy Fight Club, it is not necessary to own or own an NFT, as players can use third-party NFTs to fight others on the platform. The battles are between 3 against 3 teams and last 5 minutes each. To earn Galaxy Fight Club rewards you need to be victorious in the first 20 battles. NFT owners who lend their non-fungible tokens to the game receive between 5 and 15 GCOIN as rewards per day.
To date, each GCOIN token maintains a value of $ 1,90 dollars, growing more than 50% in recent days.
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