Immutable adds most games in first half of 2024

Regardless of a bleak second quarter when it comes to 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 Huge Blockchain Recreation Record, starting from Legendary Video games’ Pudgy Penguins tie-in and Planet Mojo’s GoGo Mojo infinite runner, to totally onchain PVP recreation Cambria: Duel Area and IP enlargement Child Shark Universe.

Mixed with the 119 new titles tracked in Q1, the primary half of the 12 months noticed 276 new video games. 

As for which ecosystems most video games are deploying on, the quickest rising class comprises multichain video games, that means video games deploying on multiple blockchain. This group accounted for 18% of all new video games in Q2, in comparison with 27% in Q1. 

Extra broadly, the trade has seen a change in developments in comparison with 2023. Notably, again then, BNB noticed most development, adopted by Polygon – and later these two swapping the highest spot when it comes to the variety of new video games added to them.

In 2024 nevertheless, 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 due to its co-operative take care of Polygon. 

Immutable is now the preferred gaming blockchain when it comes to the quantity of publicly introduced titles, with 61 video games added because the 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 commonly states it’s received greater than 330 video games inside its increasing ecosystem, though these haven’t been formally introduced. Most lately, Planetarium’s Immortal Rising 2 has introduced it’s deploying to Immutable zkEVM.

Different noticeable modifications inside ecosystems issues TON, which noticed a 14% lower of video games as a consequence of cancelled growth or liveops.

Nonetheless, alongside video games dropping off, TON additionally noticed a outstanding development of recent titles added, with 201 video games presently 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 vital compared to blockchain gaming networks resembling 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, nevertheless this has been defined to be a part of the platform’s new strategic shift in direction of including fewer however high-quality video games in trade for high-volume.