Regardless of a bleak second quarter when it comes to sport tokens efficiency and web3 video games investments, the variety of new blockchain video games retains growing.
Throughout Q2 2024, 157 new titles have been tracked by Massive Blockchain Recreation Checklist, starting from Legendary Video games’ Pudgy Penguins tie-in and Planet Mojo’s GoGo Mojo infinite runner, to totally onchain PVP sport Cambria: Duel Area and IP enlargement Child Shark Universe.
Mixed with the 119 new titles tracked in Q1, the primary half of the yr noticed 276 new video games.
As for which ecosystems most video games are deploying on, the quickest rising class incorporates multichain video games, which means video games deploying on multiple blockchain. This group accounted for 18% of all new video games in Q2, in comparison with 27% in Q1.
Extra broadly, the trade has seen a change in tendencies in comparison with 2023. Notably, again then, BNB noticed most development, adopted by Polygon – and later these two swapping the highest spot when it comes to the variety of new video games added to them.
In 2024 nonetheless, Immutable’s new Immutable zkEVM ecosystem is proving to be the best choice, with 16% of the brand new video games added in Q2, and 14% in Q1. Largely that is due to its co-operative take care of Polygon.
Immutable is now the preferred gaming blockchain when it comes to the quantity of publicly introduced titles, with 61 video games added because the begin of 2024, and 25 of these video games in Q2 2024.
This development is probably going going to be additional cemented throughout Q3. Immutable commonly states it’s obtained greater than 330 video games inside its increasing ecosystem, though these haven’t been formally introduced. Most lately, Planetarium’s Immortal Rising 2 has introduced it’s deploying to Immutable zkEVM.
Different noticeable modifications inside ecosystems considerations TON, which noticed a 14% lower of video games attributable to cancelled improvement or liveops.
Nonetheless, alongside video games dropping off, TON additionally noticed a exceptional development of recent titles added, with 201 video games presently listed on its platform. Primarily easy mini-games distributed by way of Telegram, this class is extremely liquid and attracts an enormous variety of bots. Though it shouldn’t be ignored, the variety of these video games won’t be as important compared to blockchain gaming networks corresponding to Ronin, Immutable, and Arbitrum.
Subsequent after TON, BNB was the blockchain dropping most video games through the quarter, with a 12% drop. Wemix additionally skilled a considerable drop off (9%) of video games in Q2 2024, nonetheless this has been defined to be a part of the platform’s new strategic shift in direction of including fewer however high-quality video games in trade for high-volume.
