The Coolest Cyberpunk-Inspired P2E Games to Look Out For in 2022

While the Cyberpunk gaming genre has been around for a while now, it has been given a new lease of life thanks to play-to-earn (P2E).

Cyberpunk is best described as a sort of science fiction set in a dystopian future. Blade Runner, The Matrix, and Tron are good examples of cyberpunk films and they have spawned a genre of video games that have proved immensely popular over the years. Deus Ex, System Shock, and Ruiner are considered classic Cyberpunk games.

As Cyberpunk has evolved over the decades it has spawned a new genre of what you could call cyberpunk-inspired games making it an even bigger genre. Given its massive and loyal fanbase, developers were confident they could introduce the P2E element for players to take on this new challenge and get rewarded in real life.

This monetization, in the form of cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), is one of the most exciting trends the gaming scene has seen in a while. And with the introduction of P2E into Cyberpunk games, the concept could really take off. As play-to-earn games have cryptocurrency and NFTs as an integral part of the gameplay, they add a new level of excitement and competition as the stakes are higher. With those “earnings” you can buy items within the game such as characters, weapons, and land. You can even trade and sell your assets to other players.

Many of the coolest games coming out this year combine both of these popular trends – cyberpunk-inspired games and play-to-earn features. One such game is Reign of Terror, a unique cyberpunk P2E blockchain game on Solana developed by Red Door Digital that weaves DeFi staking mechanics and NFTs into every facet of the game including Agents who run missions in a squad, Crafting (blueprints and manufacturing), Lands and more. Players can also wage war in high stakes gameplay: NFTs can be stolen, ransomed, or burned. They can participate in escalating strategic battles – risking everything in the Terror Zone for awesome rewards – and form guilds and alliances with access to end-game content by staking $ROT.

Another such game is Project Hive, a third-person shooter game in which you play a survivor stranded in the destroyed mining facility Hive on the planet Proxima. This game has nine playable levels in which you gradually discover the impact of the destruction a solar storm caused to the facility. The in-game items are all NFTs which allow the players to trade, buy and sell items without limits. Players receive HGT and SOL tokens for many activities, including territory wars, PvP duels, and PVE chapters and creating or joining clans.

Also on the list of cool new Cyperpunk P2E releases is Neon District, a role-playing game where your main tasks are to collect characters and special in-game items in a dystopian world. It uses Matic and Ethereum blockchain technology, giving you a safe way to store and trade whatever NFTs you earn.

As Web 3, labeled the next phase of the internet, evolves, this should make such P2E games even more attractive as they will allow greater cross-chain NFT interoperability. A new-generation, blockchain-integrated internet, where cryptocurrencies and NFTs are built into the platforms, could see Cyberpunk-inspired games really take off, and dawn a new era for this much-loved genre.