Card-based crypto games, where players primarily collect and battle with NFT cards, gained widespread exposure from Axie Infinity. We discovered the three most popular NFT card games including Splinterlands, Alien Worlds, and The Crypto You. This result based on Footprint Analytics data, as indicated by social media followers such as Twitter, Discord, and others.
Splinterlands
Splinterlands was founded in 2018 by Matthew Rosen (previously lead developer at Ryzing) and Jesse Reich (former employee of BASF’s Badische Anilin-und-Soda-Fabrik). In July 2021, the game was published on the Hive blockchain and a $3.6 million investment round was completed.
There are two sorts of tokens in Splinterlands. One is SPS, a BSC governance token, and the other is DEC, Dark Energy Crystals, Splinterlands’ circulation money used to purchase in-game goods. In the recent year, DEC and SPS have grown and declined in almost equal amounts. Around the 14th of October, prices were at their peak. They began to fall after that, recovered, and then fell again. They have been influenced by bigger market developments in general.
Splinterlands’ transactions are on the rise, which is consistent with a strong project growth path. With 98.97 percent, it is the game with the most GameFi transactions on the Hive chain in the previous year.
Splinterlands also has 10 million users as of March 20, the most of any card game and 14.7 times that of Axie Infinity. The significant rise corresponds to the change in transactions, both of which started in August. It is currently increasing at a more consistent rate.
Alien Worlds
In the year 2020, Dacoco GmbH released Alien Worlds, a metaverse intergalactic game. It was the first game to include liquidity mining into NFT games, and it was published on the WAX and BSC chains. It allows cross-chain bridging to Ethereum and was the first game to bring cross-chain bridging to Ethereum.
Trillium (TLM) is its token, an ERC-20 token that can be mined and pledged for incentives. TLM is the circulating money for acquiring upgrading assets and allows you to participate in the governance of a planetary DAO. TLM’s price has risen dramatically since its April introduction, reaching an all-time high of $6.93 on April 11. Since then, it has begun to fall, and it is presently trading at roughly $0.25.
Alien Worlds now has 5.53 million members and is on the rise. However, the number of new users fluctuates from month to month, with the majority of them declining.
The Crypto You
The Digital Currency BabySwap has created a baby-themed metaverse game called You. In December 2021, it was released on the BSC chain.
For The Crypto You, there are two sorts of tokens. The BabySwap token, which is used to create characters and cast uncommon equipment in the game, and MILK, The Crypto You’s money, which is used to improve characters and repair equipment, are the two currencies.
At Alien Worlds, the price pattern of MILK is remarkably similar to the price trend of TLM. Both spike for a few days around the release date and subsequently plummet. It has been at a low level for a long time. The second governance token, BABY, is identical to BabySwap’s token and does not adequately reflect The Crypto You’s data performance, thus it will be ignored.
The Crypto You has 48,000 users right now, but both user retention and new user growth are poor. The game had a surge of 220,000 players when it first started in December, but it has been steadily dropping since then, with just 166 new users added in March as of March 20.