Regardless of a bleak second quarter by way of recreation tokens efficiency and web3 video games investments, the variety of new blockchain video games retains growing.
Throughout Q2 2024, 157 new titles had been tracked by Massive Blockchain Sport Listing, starting from Legendary Video games’ Pudgy Penguins tie-in and Planet Mojo’s GoGo Mojo limitless runner, to totally onchain PVP recreation Cambria: Duel Enviornment and IP growth 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 a couple of blockchain. This group accounted for 18% of all new video games in Q2, in comparison with 27% in Q1.
Extra broadly, the business 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 by way of 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 because of its co-operative cope with Polygon.
Immutable is now the most well-liked gaming blockchain by way of the quantity of publicly introduced titles, with 61 video games added for the reason that begin of 2024, and 25 of these video games in Q2 2024.
This pattern is probably going going to be additional cemented throughout Q3. Immutable repeatedly states it’s acquired greater than 330 video games inside its increasing ecosystem, though these haven’t been formally introduced. Most just lately, Planetarium’s Immortal Rising 2 has introduced it’s deploying to Immutable zkEVM.
Different noticeable adjustments inside ecosystems issues TON, which noticed a 14% lower of video games attributable to cancelled improvement or liveops.
Nevertheless, alongside video games dropping off, TON additionally noticed a exceptional development of recent titles added, with 201 video games at present listed on its platform. Primarily easy mini-games distributed through 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 may not be as important compared to blockchain gaming networks reminiscent of Ronin, Immutable, and Arbitrum.
Subsequent after TON, BNB was the blockchain dropping most video games throughout 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 the direction of including fewer however high-quality video games in trade for high-volume.