While Axie Infinity introduced the play-to-earn concept, it was a pretty dull game by all accounts. With its repetitive gameplay, its Ponzi tokenomics and its questionable security, it’s not surprising that it lost its crown as the king of Web3 games.
Fortunately, the next-generation of play-to-earn games has arrived and they’re about to blow your mind! Long gone are the days of grinding for cryptocurrency rewards that could collapse in value at the drop of a hat. With the launch of exciting titles like My Pet Hooligan, Victoria VR and MetalCore, blockchain-based games are finally ready for prime time, merging AAA-class gameplay with true ownership, financial rewards and a level of addictiveness that traditional gamers will immediately recognize.
Web3 games are those that combine traditional video game mechanics with the principles of decentralization. They’re built on blockchains, and they utilize digital assets that players can own and sell. It’s a concept that promises to captivate enthusiasts and ultimately transform the economic model of the video gaming industry. By offering unique experiences and economic opportunities, Web3 is set to become the future of gaming and it’s one we can’t wait to see.
Check out these top titles and see how they’re taking the Web3 gaming industry to newer, fresher and more addictive and immersing heights than ever before!
My Pet Hooligan
Already a major hit while still in early access on the Epic Games store, My Pet Hooligan is a stunning, AAA-style shooter game that takes place in the colourful, wacky world of Hooliland City, the capital of an alternative, rabbits-on-steroids world that promises to keep you coming back for more and more.
The NFT based rabbits are known as “Hoolis” and they’re the main characters in the game, with players compelled to join a faction of the resistance and battle to overcome the evil overlord, Meta ZuckBot. It’s a fast-paced and action-packed shooting game that takes place amid a chaotic cityscape, with hellish weapons ranging from flamethrowers to water guns inciting an all-out rebellion.
My Pet Hooligan is clearly inspired by games like Fortnite, Ratchet and Clank, GTA and Zootopia and has recognizable elements from all four. The expansive maps and varied game modes are sure to keep players enthralled, compelling them to spend hours exploring Hooliland in search of endless rewards. They’ll be treated to some epic graphics, crazy shootouts and non-stop bombs going off, with the motion capture-enabled facial expressions adding to the immersive experience.
The gameplay is blazing fast and there’s an enormous selection of weapons suited to everyone’s tastes, ranging from sniper rifles to fully-automatic machine guns, bazookas and more. It caters to various fighting styles too, with Hoolis able to sneak around undercover or leap onto their skateboards and race across the map to secure a more advantageous fighting position.
One delightful aspect of My Pet Hooligan is its integration of AI motion capture, which enables human players to control the facial expressions of their Hoolis from behind their gaming monitor. The player’s expression will be instantly mirrored by their Hooli, and the effect is incredibly realistic, adding to the interactive nature of the game.
The main battle model, called Coinpocalypse, is a player-vs-player battle of two teams, which face off with one another in an effort to win the crypto prizes that are reserved exclusively for the winners. If you get bored of that, or simply want the chance to keep all of the winnings for yourself, the battle royale-inspired Anarchy Mode promises rich rewards for the last man standing. When you’re ready to take a break from the action and chomp down on a few carrots, the non-violent exploration mode provides the opportunity for players to explore the city and make friends without the risk of instant death.
My Pet Hooligan is available to download on the Epic Games store now, ahead of a general release expected to come later this year.
Victoria VR
A revolutionary blockchain-based virtual reality metaverse, Victoria VR is a visual delight with its highly-realistic and detailed graphics powered by the Unreal Engine. It’s a full-fledged metaverse world that hosts one of the most expansive massively-multiplayer-online role-playing games, or MMORPGs, ever conceived, complete with a novel “social experience playground” that provides multiple options for playing the game
The game is all about exploration, innovation and collection, and is perfect for those who want to enhance their creativity and their economic potential in a virtual environment.
Within Victoria VR, players can partake in numerous activities such as business, art, mini games, exploration, relaxation, commerce and real estate. They can buy, sell and lease land, build cities upon it, spend their hours exploring the constantly-growing world, make friends and battle their enemies.
Vitoria VR provides a gaming experience that promises to cater to every type of gamer and keep them all entertained for much longer than any traditional MMORPG game has done to date. With its enthralling quests, richly rewarding mini-games, challenges and competitions, the most dedicated players have the chance to become incredibly wealthy and powerful within the Victoria VR world. By acquiring virtual land and building, renting or advertising on it, players can easily establish a recurring revenue stream that they can reinvest into the game to enhance their overall experience.
Victoria VR is a place where players can be anything they want to be while immersing themselves in super-realistic graphics and sounds, and it all takes place in real-time within an expansive world that never sleeps.
Personalization is a big part of the Victoria VR experience, with players able to customize their avatar in hundreds of ways, altering their body type, gender, clothing, accessories, appearance, voice and other aspects. But the game is about more than just creating an appearance that best reflects you – it’s also about how you want to spend your time, and it promises to offer an unprecedented number of ways players can experience what life in the metaverse is really all about.
It’s a unique MMORPG that’s built specifically for a metaverse environment, a life within a life that provides almost as many opportunities in the virtual world as you’ll find out here in the real one.
MetalCore
Fans of military warfare will love nothing more than the mech-based shoot ‘em up MetalCore, with its adrenaline-pumping battlegrounds and the chance to earn real life spoils of war.
The game, available in early access now, promises to deliver an unrivaled battle experience, with players commanding towering mechs that are armed to the teeth with missiles and guns galore, engaging in epic battles across an endless span of war-torn alien landscapes.
MetalCore is a first-person shooter-style mechanized combat game that takes place in an expansive and immersive universe, where a brutal war has broken out for control of the universe. It’s developed by a company called Studio 369 and published by Immutable Games, and offers some of the most stunning visuals ever seen from Unreal Engine 4.
With the game, MetalCore players can compete for crypto prize pools in various battle modes, ranging from player-vs-environment to player-vs-player to turn-based battles and a frenzied battle royale-style clash, catering to everyone’s desires.
One thing that really makes the game stand out is how it combines all of these various battle modes into an enormous battle zone featuring three different factions – the Metal Punks, Heartbreakers and The Holy Corporation – in one almighty clash. To win the battle, one of the factions must achieve one of the predetermined objectives, including controlling the most tactical points for the longest time, destroying their enemies’ bases, defeating all of the enemy’s units, or taking control of all of their respawn points.
Within the game, so-called Infantry Mech NFTs are the core digital asset, with eight different classes available including light infantry, heavy infantry and super-heavy infantry, which all have progressively more powerful weapons; engineers with repair abilities; medics to heal and revive casualties; scouts with rapid mobility to flank enemies; snipers for long distance combat roles and, finally; pilots, who are specialists that can pilot mechs, armored vehicles and warplanes to give them an additional performance advantage.
Another aspect that sets MetalCore apart is that its battle zones are dynamic combat arenas that are always live. Each player enters the arena with a limited amount of respawns, and if they are consumed they will be booted from the war zone and replaced by someone else who’s waiting in the queue. The game employs clever mechanisms to maintain the flow of the battle through to the end.