What Are Play-to-Earn NFT Games?

With the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic all around the world, the economic recession is getting worse in the year 2020. However, the video game industry was experienced an unexpected boom. Because people get more time at home to play video games for entertainment. Many traditional game producers claimed a massive growth both in revenue and users in 2020. In early 2021, the concept of NFT is getting popular, which attract game producer to bring games to the crypto world. So a series of Play-to-Earn NFT games came into our life. Nowadays, Play-to-Earn NFT games are now disrupting the traditional games market by allowing players to earn while playing, thereby rewarding their time and effort.

What Are Play-to-Earn NFT Games?

In general, a Play-to-Earn NFT game combines conventional online games and the technology of blockchain. Players can enjoy playing the game like most online games, while they can be rewarded with tokens and NFTs. Most of the Play-to-Earn NFT games with following features:

• The games are launched on blockchain and the ecological of the game is related to digital assets.
• Two kinds of assets in the game, tokens, and NFTs. The longer players play, the more tokens they earn. The NFTs can be in-game assets like skins, characters, weapons, virtual lands, and much more. The NFTs are distinguishable and tamper-proof, with unique and rarity features.
• The tokens can be traded in exchanges. They can be used to purchase NFTs or swift to other tokens such as ETH, even fiat money.
• Plays can claim ownership of the in-game NFTs. They can get the NFT reward by raising new characters, complete certain tasks, or purchase from NFT marketplaces.

Play-to-Earn NFT Games now are quite popular in some developing countries, people try to play games to earn tokens and mint NFTs, then sell them to earn profits.

How Do NFT Games Work?

In-app purchases are very common for traditional online gaming. Almost all the traditional online games have in-game coins. Players purchase in-game coins from the game producer, then they use the in-game coins to buy virtual in-game assets. However, these coins have had no value beyond the scope of the game, which means players can only use them "in-game".

Differ from traditional online gaming, the NFT games allow users to add value to their purchases. The in-game products, such as skin, character, weapon, could be NFTs stored on the blockchain. These NFTs could be traded for cryptocurrency. Now some NFT games producers will launch tokens that exist on the blockchain, which can be traded on third-party exchanges. So the digital assets can be transferred for real money.

How Do NFT Games Make Money?

In general, how much money you can earn from the NFT games depend on the certain NFT game's rules and NFT market demand. When players earn reward tokens or NFTs, they may sell them in the exchanges or NFT marketplaces, others will value the NFTs or cryptocurrencies by collectability or in-game utility. Some may be valuable and can be exchanged for a large sum of money.

Is There Any Risk When Playing NFT Games?

There are certain risks you may face while playing NFT games:

1. Since the NFTs' value depends on what people place on them, which means they are speculative, you may face a value decrease. It is similar to cryptocurrency investment.
2. Falling for a scam, send the NFT to the scammer.
3. Did not operate properly and send the NFT or token to the wrong address.
4. Misunderstand the rules of a game, you may spend time play the NFT game but earn nothing.

What Are The Top 5 NFT Games?

There are some popular NFT games that attract a large group of players. Here list the top 5 NFT games:

• Axie Infinity

Axie Infinity is being developed by Sky Mavis which is a technology-focused game studio based in Vietnam and founded in early 2018. It is on the Ethereum blockchain. Users can earn the Axie Infinity Shard token (AXS) and Smooth Love Potion (SLP) in several ways. To earn tokens, players breed, raise, and battle Axies in this game universe. Investors who don't want to play the game can buy both tokens on exchanges. Players can also store each Axie creature in their own wallet as an NFT and sell them in the marketplace.Axie Infinity became particularly popular in the Philippines, many players play this game for a living.

• Gods Unchained

Gods Unchained is a trading card game. Players will need to use a deck of cards to battle other players in online competitive games. These cards have attacking, supporting, disrupting, or defensive powers. Some cards rely more on "physical damage", while others are tailored for magical attacks. Players need to create a deck of cards, and those who combine the utility of these cards very well, have a bigger chance of winning. Each card is backed by an ERC-721 token that you can trade on the platform's native marketplace or the open market.

• Sorare

Sorare is a fantasy football game with collectible, tradeable soccer players from real life. Players can create a five-player soccer team using either free cards for beginner players or purchasing tokenized cards. One of Cristiano Ronaldo's cards got sold for 300,000$, making it the most expensive card sold in the NFT marketplace.

• Splinterlands

Splinterlands is a tradable card game that lets users earn as they play. You build your deck with different fighters, abilities, and stats. Then you battle other players on the battlefield. For every victory, your rank increases, unlocking higher-level cards and more rewards. Players own the cards and have the freedom to trade, buy, sell and pay them whatever they prefer.

• Alien Worlds

Alien Worlds is a Defi NFT metaverse where you can collect and play with unique digital items. Explorers can earn or buy NFT packs. In the Alien Worlds metaverse, players can acquire NFTs to mine TLM, engage in battles, and complete in-game quests.

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