No.1 Axie Infinity
Axie Infinity was the first crypto game to hit 1 billion $ in sales in August 2021. Despite losing 96% value of all time maximum token price the game has more than a million active users and more than 100 million $ in daily trading volume. Mentioned play to earn game was recently hacked losing more than 600 million $ in Ethereum and still able to recover in a short period of time. It’s a Pokemon style game with PVP and PVE aspects as well as a land plot game all in one. A few weeks ago Axie Infinity introduced “Axie Infinity Origin” as they constantly working to improve the game. There is not much more I am going to say about the best play to earn game 2022 – numbers tell the story themselves.
No. 2 Illuvium
Illuvium is an open-world RPG, NFT collector, resource farming, and auto battler game built on the Ethereum Blockchain. I know it’s not fair to compare Illuvium with much older games but I have to include it on this list. Mentioned crypto game is still in close beta testing as it’s expected to be live in Q3 2022. Most of others play to earn games 2022 are passive and not much fun of playing but Illuvium is about to completely change that. Appearance and design are at the level of quality unseen by now in crypto game world with amazing gameplay, a huge fanbase and incredible hype around the project. Even in-game sound is on the next level – Illuvium got it all.
No. 3 Defi Kingdoms
Defi Kingdoms is a DeFi play to earn game built on the blockchain, designed with useable NFTs. It’s an NFT asset platform turned fantasy game with Heroes, Equipment, and Kingdoms. Players can gain liquidity by staking its in-game currency JEWEL. It’s been around for about six months and got a daily trading token volume of 9 million $. Despite doing a good job Defi Kingdom there is uncertainty around JEWEL token. After July 2022 the large portion of the locked-up token will be unlocked. So everything mentioned may have a massive impact on the game economy.
No. 4 Pegaxy
Pegaxy is a horse racing PVP simulation game. Every Pega is NFT racing with other NFTs for a prize in VIS token and it’s one way of monetization. Another way is breeding new NFTs and selling them in the in-game market. Pegaxy operates on the Polygon network with the lowest gas fees. At some point during February 2022 game had over 100 000 active players. After the all-time high VIS token lost 99% of its value and is at an all-time low at the moment. The player base went down to 8000 players. But, with the new addition of stats-based racing grows up to 40 000. The Pegaxy team is in process of making a mobile app and it should be finished by the end of Q2 2022. If the NFT game survives till then, with the current large player base and low prices, Pegasus may fly again.
No. 5 play to earn games 2022 – TownStar
TownStar is a farming simulator with play to earn mechanics developed by GALA games. GALA games is by far the biggest name in crypto games industry. TownStar is their only playable game at the moment. In TownStar players own their plot of land and mint different NFTs which can produce different resources. TownStar token price lost 95% of its maximum value. But its 100% higher than a minimum value for over two months which leads us to believe that the worst days are far behind TownStar. Yet, GALA games is about to launch several much bigger free play to earn games in 2022 so it’s unknown how much simple games like TownStar will be in the focus of the biggest crypto gaming company.
