The 4 Most Exciting New Blockchain Gaming Platforms for 2022

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Gaming is a huge industry. And when it's coupled with blockchain and combined with the extremely lucrative NFT sector, it’s clear that the outlook is extremely promising. So it's not really a matter of determining whether or not NFT gaming is going to take off. After all, the NFT market valuation jumped 800% (to $10.7 Billion) in the space of 3 months during 2021.

It’s more a matter of identifying the platforms that are best placed to succeed. Like all industries, gamers will tend to gravitate towards a select number of high-powered platforms where all the action is, and it takes a lot of work to get all the ingredients right where NFT gaming is concerned. Strong gameplay will take center stage and unless the game is entertaining, players will not stick around.

Below are 4 of the best blockchain-based NFT gaming platforms for 2022. These platforms have strong teams, solid fundamentals, detailed road maps, large communities, and excellent strategic partnerships.

#1 - League of Ancients

League of Ancients (LOA) is a multi-online battle arena (MOBA) available on the Binance Smart Chain. MOBA is an extremely popular industry and consists of names such as League of Legends, Pokemon, and Mobile Legends. These games are downloaded millions of times per month. However, LOA is set apart in the sense that it is free-to-earn and free-to-play. This is entirely different from other MOBA games which don’t give anything back to network participants.

With LOA, gamers select a Hero and participate in 5v5 combat against the other team. The idea is to control ‘lanes’ that lead to the opponent's base, which is to be destroyed. The LOA gameplay was inspired by DoTA2 and League of Legends. But it also features an NFT trading marketplace, NFT staking, yield farming, special events, NFT skin ownership, NFT fusion, and more.

The $LOA token is currently listed on Coinmarketcap, trading at a price of $0.95 and ranked at #3028, though both of these fluctuate regularly. They are currently engaged in centralized exchange listing and DEX offerings.

#2 - Gamerse

Gamerse is a huge social gaming platform built on distributed ledger technology. The social aspect is where Gamerse stands out as it serves to bring gamers together. It also brings a new ‘share-to-earn’ revenue generation model to the table. It’s advertised as a social gaming economy in the Metaverse that offers cross-domain and cross-chain solutions.

Gamerse is creating a marketplace for all gaming-related NFTs, not just its own internal marketplace. So it's going to be a cross-chain NFT marketplace as well as a social platform for gamers with social groups, community pages, personalized profiles, etc. Users get rewarded for participating in groups and the APY yield offering increases depending on group activity. So it really emphasizes group activity and sharing.

The Gamerse token is the $LFG and it is available on the BSC, Polygon, and Solana chains. It is currently available for purchase on Pancake Swap at a price of $0.02.

#3 - AEXLAB

AEXLAB offers something a little different than the other listings. This company is focused on producing a VR-based first-person shooter game. They are on a mission to create an immersive and interactive first-person tactical shooter with NFT ‘pets’ that grow and evolve within the platform. These pets are known as ‘VALIENS’ and owning one of these NFT pets will give you access to Beta versions of the ‘VAIL’ game.

AEXLAB has done its homework in terms of applying real-life features to the VR game, with spatial audio pull, full-body presence, haptics, and firearm simulation based on the experience of experienced military personnel.

This could be one of the first games that truly gives the public a taste of a fully functional Virtual Reality tactical shooter. We are probably going to hear a lot about this in 2022. However, users will have to invest in the company via shares as opposed to buying tokens on the blockchain. This is the VR industry featuring NFTs and social gaming - not the other way around.

#4 - H3RO3S

H3RO3S (pronounced ‘Heroes’) is set to disrupt the ‘gig’ marketplace with a collaborative social environment for those looking to earn an income. Participants can fill out their ‘Hero’ profile and their skillset and complete tasks in a given area.

It’s not technically a ‘gaming’ platform in the conventional sense. But it does allow you to build your own avatar, earn up to $1,500 a month, meet people, and complete tasks. It was designed for gig workers and displaced university students who are out of work due to Covid-19. It also places more of an emphasis on the social and fun side of things while maintaining social distancing guidelines.

H3RO3S describes itself as a ‘real life’ play-to-earn ecosystem as people will participate in real-life activities, as opposed to an online game or VR platform for interaction. By 2022, it seeks representation across all UK universities and to deploy a 30-year roadmap - quite ambitious for a ‘game’. It is not currently available for sale.

NFT Gaming in 2022

It’s clear that we are witnessing the merging of many industries - social gaming, VR platforms, tradable NFTs, investment, freelancing, entertainment, token staking, wearable metaverse technology, etc.

We are also witnessing the birth of new industries and new revenue generation models. It can be hard to pin a platform into one single area, especially when new features are being included so rapidly.

But what we can be certain of is that NFT gaming is an industry that we are going to hear quite a lot about in 2022 and beyond.

Vested Interest Disclaimer: The author holds tokens in League of Ancients. The opinions in this article belong to the author alone and should not be considered investment advice.