A new successful game is built upon Telegram messenger and TON blockchain. It’s a part of the recent Telegram Mini Apps (TMA) GameFi trend.

Grand Combat is a new game that has already attracted more than 5 million users. Its token $GRAND had a very successful launch on the TON blockchain, rising +8000% in price during the first hour. What this fuss is all about? And what is the deal with all the new Telegram-based games?

The gameplay of Grand Combat may seem very simple at first: you can just tap on the screen and get points for that. Looks like the simplest game mechanic in the world: you can just tap again and again, and the number keeps on rising. That’s the clicker mechanic well-known since the Cookie Clicker (2013).

But while Grand Combat uses the clicker mechanic, it’s not limited to it. The game character is a crypto startup founder who can “invest” the points in different things, creating a “passive income” revenue stream: now you don’t even have to tap to get points. In the long run, you can get much more points by that than by tapping. So when a person gets deeper into the game, the focus shifts to different things.