P2E and Web3 Weekly Review (April 14- April 21)

More projects are offering the building blocks to launch Web3 games. Games have discovered the sustainable model of tournaments, and especially player-funded prize pools. Other successful models include mini-games and semi-idle games. New launches as Web3 games also bring existing audiences and create new lively games with more than 100K users. 

Top Events of the Week

• Reta Wars Prepares for New Season with Updates
• MetaWorld: My City Officially Launched on Marblex
• Legends of Bezogia Pre-Launch Listing Opens

Web3 Game News

Illuvium Updates Overworld – Illuvium showed the art for an upgrade to its Overworld game. The private beta is also including new elements, while still delaying its official launch. 

https://twitter.com/illuviumio/status/1648588894797979648

Illuvium is one of the most ambitious projects, spending a long time in the NFT and GameFi stage, before releasing the playable Overworld. The Illuvium game itself is still in closed testing. 

Axie: Defenders of Lunacia Gets Major Upgrade – Axie is growing by mini-games, and Defenders of Lunacia is one of the up-and-coming side projects. 

https://twitter.com/Sourbeck\_AxieGG/status/1649403591994617859

After the end of Season 3 Origins, Axie once again tries to keep up the pace with Homeland and additional mini-challenges and short-term e-sports tournaments.

Sunflower Land Prepares for New Event – Dawnbreaker, the next season of Sunflower Land, will launch from May 1. The game offers short six-week seasons with special items. 

https://twitter.com/0xSunflowerLand/status/1649277720390680576

Sunflower Land is also retaining users with both in-game and external market NFT trading.

Alien Worlds Expands Galactic Hub Grants Program – Alien Worlds is evolving, by supporting mini-games built by hand-picked studios. 

Explorers, GHubs announced its latest grant recipient, Battlefleet Armageddon, a mobile auto battler game set in the #AlienWorldsMetaverse.
The game puts players in command of a fleet of spacecraft with unique powers and abilities to dominate the competition & climb the rankings. pic.twitter.com/XPcfzantO9

— Alien Worlds Official (@AlienWorlds) April 21, 2023

Alien Worlds remains one of the top P2E games, due to its constant availability of competitive mini-matches and a global audience.

The Sandbox Brings In Fist of the North Star – The Sandbox is offering a new batch of NFT skins and revives Fist of the North Star, a classic action game. 

https://twitter.com/TheSandboxGame/status/1649372124270690305

The Sandbox continues to support exclusive events, each with a new mint of themed NFT avatars or skins.

Leading Games by Number of Users

Leading games retain their usual arrangement, with the exception of Iskra, a newly arrived game on the Klaytn network. The game displaced Alien Worlds from its top spot, which was unchallenged for months. Iskra is a mini-game hub, allowing for multiple interactions and rapid transaction growth. 

Game

Previous Week

Current

Iskra

127.7K

309.13K

Alien Worlds

243.03K

243.03K

Farmers World

70.87K

70.87K

Splinterlands

67.89K

67.89K

Uplant

–

23.4K

Sunflower Land

14.32K

14.6K

Axie Infinity

11.46K

7.04K

P2E Token Price Action

The market cap of all P2E tokens corrected downward to $5.86B while other assets also backtracked, sending BTC under $29,000 once again. Tokens mostly retain their positions, with some of the focus shifted on NFT collections.

Upcoming Airdrops and Giveaways

Top Squad Ongoing Mint

Eldarune Ongoing Mint

Trashy Birbs Ongoing Mint

ZG Frens from April 22

TBLOCKSW from May 1

Eldarune has been a long-awaited game collection. Other mints are also in demand, with free mints especially popular. NFT hype remains, but for collections that show robust trading activity. Early mints are still one of the best ways to gain from a collection or gain early collectibles at a relatively low price.