Author: Asher Zhang, Bitpush
Since this round of bull market, in addition to Bitcoin and Ethereum, Solana is undoubtedly the most popular. Whether it is the DePIN track at the beginning of the year or the Meme track that is still hot recently, Solana has always had a myth of getting rich quickly and has always been a hot spot in the market. Recently, the chain game on Solana has once again attracted market attention, which may be expected to become the next explosion point on Solana.
Breaking out of the circle, the new blockchain game incubated by Solana has become the new favorite in the Web2 game circle
Nyan Heroes is a 3A shooting game based on the Solana ecosystem. Players play as a kitten driving a giant mecha, using unique abilities and advanced feline movements to track targets and defeat opponents in the game. On March 26, the blockchain game Nyan Heroes built on Solana was officially launched on the Epic Games Store. During the two-week pre-alpha event, Nyan Heroes achieved remarkable results. According to official data: the number of user registrations exceeded 1.3 million, the number of independent active wallets exceeded 700,000, and the number of daily active users exceeded 45,000. At the same time, Nyan Heroes has been downloaded more than 200,000 times in the Epic Games Store, and successfully entered the top five most popular games in the Epic Games Store and one of the 30 most popular games in the world. On May 8, Nyan Heroes once again launched a game experience event, which triggered heated discussions in the crypto market.
The reason why Nyan Heroes has achieved such success as soon as it went online has a lot to do with its strong development team and ecosystem. The Nyan Heroes team has extensive experience in game development, and its members have participated in the development of major titles such as Destiny, Halo, Mass Effect, and Assassin Creed. At the same time, Nyan Heroes has strong ecological partners. The blockchain game has been supported by giant companies such as Razer, Xterio, Immutable, Superverse, NeoTokyo, Elixir, Hyperplay, and Saga, and has reached in-depth cooperation with e-sports giants such as G2 E-sports, Fnatic, and Evil Geniuses. In the future, it will hold large-scale e-sports events with the mainstream live broadcast platform Twitch.
From the gameplay point of view, Nyan Heroes is similar to traditional 3A shooting games, but Nyan Heroes adds cat parkour action elements, such as wall walking and jumping. Nyan Heroes also has a rich selection of mechas, ranking systems and titles, as well as leaderboard reward settings, which are in no way inferior to traditional Web2 game masterpieces. According to the official roadmap, there will be land sales, NYAN staking, Guardian NFT release, etc. in the future, and new characters and elements will be introduced in the game. It can be said that after superimposing the GameFi gameplay, Nyan Heroes is more playable and attractive, which may also be the reason why Nyan Heroes broke the circle.
An article reviewing the best blockchain games on Solana
DeFi Land: In the game, players can simulate farming and production. A battle mode is added to the 2.0 version to enhance the gameplay. The game is divided into infrastructure and NFT facilities. The infrastructure includes banks (lending aggregators), warehouses (providing seeds for farmland, which is converted to DeFi to provide liquidity tokens), markets (trading through AMMs and liquidity providers such as serum and raydium), and NFT facilities such as granaries. After purchase, they will help the land obtain an additional 5% of output; a weather system is set up in the game, and the changes in weather will be determined by your location and market conditions, simulating the environment for crop growth to a great extent; in addition, some mini-games are set up, through which you can get extra income. Investment institutions include: Animoca Brands, JumpCapital, Rarestone Capital, Kyros Ventures, Double Peak. DeFi Land is more like an entry-level DeFi education system, which may become the first stop for the novice group to learn DeFi knowledge, with corresponding landing scenarios and special status.
Project Seed: The game is set in a world that is about to be destroyed. Players need to find the truth of the world by looking for guardians and save the sanctuary from destruction. Players will start their journey in Hunter's Harbor, a small city at the western end of Sandrocks, where players can learn the combat system through tutorials. Players have three main professions to choose from, namely Mercenary (melee player), Archer (range attacker), Alchemist (the biggest output in the team), in addition to which players can choose 6 sub-class professions, namely Blacksmith, Tailor, Chef, Carpenter, Alchemist and Breeder. Each sub-class profession requires players to find learning formulas and upgrade levels, and each sub-class profession can open a corresponding store. The game has a unique feature dungeon creator mode, and in addition, there are also multiple mini-games designed in the game such as fishing, logging and mining.
Star Atlas: There are three galaxy factions in the game, namely the MUD territory ruled by humans, the ONI area of the alien race alliance, and the Ustur star area controlled by robots. Each faction will be divided into three parts, namely the safe zone (learning the basic skills of the game, such as rescue, combat and salvage), the middle area (players can fight, but if damaged, the assets will be reset), and the border (players will completely destroy assets through fighting, and the destruction is a permanent event, but only a part of the assets will be permanently destroyed). Team members have participated in the production of many well-known games and well-known movies, including: games including "Star Citizen", "Destiny 2", "Dauntless", "Horizon: Zero Dawn", "Call of Duty: Black Ops 3/4", "Halo Remastered", "Dead Island 2", "Spec Ops: The Line of Life", "Beyond Earth", "The Sims", "Ultima Online", "Warhammer Online", "The Lord of the Rings", etc. Star Atlas investment institutions: Moonwhale Ventures, Serum, LD Capital, Yield Guild Games. The production cycle of 3A games is relatively long. In October 2023, the blockchain game Star Atlas launched developer tools that allow external applications to access in-game information.
Aorory: The game can be divided into single-player mode and multiplayer mode. In single-player games, players can follow NPCs to promote the development of the plot. Every creature defeated will get a corresponding NFT. These NFT cards can help players obtain additional items in multiplayer games. In addition, each completed task will receive a certain token reward. The team currently has 7 members, with more than 20 years of experience in the game industry and 3A-level game artists; investment institutions include: Solana, Animoca Brands, Zee Prime Capital, Ascensive Assets, CMS, Genblock capital, etc.
Why blockchain games on Solana are more worth looking forward to
Chain games in the crypto industry have evolved from the initial CryptoKitties, and have made significant progress in each round of bull market; but this progress and innovation is more based on innovation in financial gameplay, and the actual playability is relatively poor. Many GameFis have seen a surge in active users under the stimulation of token airdrops and pull-ups, but with a large number of tokens unlocked, the price of the currency will fall, users will be lost, and the growth momentum of the game will be exhausted. Therefore, the fundamental way for the development of chain games may still be to improve the playability of the game itself. 3A masterpieces have very high requirements for the basic performance of the public chain, and Solana has obvious advantages in this regard. From the inventory of projects on Solana, it can be seen that there are several 3A masterpieces on Solana that have been cultivated and developed for many years, such as Nyan Heroes, which have been released and have actually won the favor of traditional game players. In the future, Web3 chain games are expected to become one of Solana's true ecological core competitiveness.