The crypto community is endlessly clicking on the hamster, hoping to make thousands of dollars from a new game. What to expect from Hamster Kombat?
Table of Contents
What is Hamster Kombat?
What’s unique about Hamster Kombat?
How to play
Is it possible to make money on Hamster Kombat?
Is everything so safe?
What users say
Should users start playing Hamster Kombat, or is it too late?
What is Hamster Kombat?
Hamster Kombat is a Telegram clicker game in which players can turn a hamster into the CEO of a successful company by clicking on a coin and buying special cards. The developers of Hamster Kombat themselves position the game as an educational simulator.
Although it appeared back in March, the game gained popularity just in May. The sharp increase in popularity coincided with the launch of the project’s YouTube channel and increased promotion among influencers and the community.
What’s unique about Hamster Kombat?
Hamster Kombat is gaining immense popularity. It is a free and easy-to-learn game that allows anyone not initiated into the world of exchanges and crypto to feel involved in the great sacrament of making money out of nothing. The opportunity to earn money in the clicker led to the fact that, already in early June, the number of Hamster Kombat players reached 100 million.
Dear Hamsters 🐹We’re so excited to share that today we reached a new milestone — 100 million users 🚀All of this is possible because of YOU, our Hamster Family! thank you! every single one of you!Hamsters around the globe, unite! 🐹❤️ pic.twitter.com/NLFZxLjbMW
— Hamster Kombat (@hamster_kombat) June 5, 2024
The imposed feeling of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and aggressive advertising play important roles in promotion — not only from bloggers but also from ordinary users who promote the game for the sake of bonuses for their own accounts from referral links.
Instead, they hope to earn real money. The game’s creators promise to list the HMSTR token on the exchange and reward players with coins for their wallets.
Faith in the project comes from cooperation with the TON system and the experience of Notcoin, whose team has already done what the Hamster Kombat developers promised: they released a coin on exchanges and shared tokens with players. The fact that the game’s authors are carefully hidden and almost do not interact with the audience raises questions.
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How to play
The game is implemented as a mini-application launched through the bot @hamster_kombat_bot. As a rule, people come to Hamster Kombat through referral links from friends or just random people to receive welcome bonuses.
A new player receives 5,000 coins (or 25,000 if the user has a Telegram Premium subscription). This will help the sender receive unique cards, but there will be more on them later.
After registration, the user receives a hamster CEO. Initially, it is bald and thin, but it will become more solid and fluffier.
Source: Hamster Kombat bot
At first, the only way to level up is to click on the coin. However, it won’t be possible to poke endlessly because, in primitive mechanics, there is a reserve of energy consumed from each click. Usera can replenish energy for free six times a day, but cannot do this more than once an hour.
To speed up the process, the creators have provided several boosters. Some increase the currency received for each tap, and some pump up the stamina scale. All this variety is purchased for the same coins around the extraction, during which the entire application is built.
When the player has accumulated enough coins, they can buy cards in the Mine section. These are various activities and terms related to cryptocurrencies, IT, and business. The names are entirely unimportant: the main thing is these cards’ passive income.
Already purchased cards can be upgraded to receive more passive income. To open a new card, a user needs to upgrade another one to a given level or invite more friends with the referral link.
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Is it possible to make money on Hamster Kombat?
Now, this question is rather rhetorical. No one can say with certainty whether the clicker will bring income to players. All the millions of dollars gamers can earn in the game remain just beautiful numbers of in-game currency, in no way connected with real money.
However, the game creators promise that the coin will be listed on exchanges in June, and existing players will receive a certain amount of cryptocurrency in the form of an airdrop in gratitude for their support. In the cryptocurrency world, an airdrop is the mass distribution of tokens to user wallets — usually just at the launch of a new coin.
Dear CEOs,Due to the tremendous amount of questions and comments, we want to set the record straight 🧾:Airdrop will depend on the profit per hour and some other activitiy parameters that we will reveal later, NOT the coin balance Play wisely!🐹 We are getting so much…
— Hamster Kombat (@hamster_kombat) June 6, 2024
It turns out that users who have spent dozens of hours on the game will get a couple of dollars worth of HMSTR. They may be able to earn a couple of hundred or a thousand, but no one promises or guarantees even this.
Is everything so safe?
While the game does not pose a significant threat, there are still several questions about it. The most suspicious thing is the fact that the team of creators is carefully hiding. All the posts are conducted on behalf of cartoon hamsters, and the videos use a robotic voice.
The viral promotion also raises questions. The developers decided to pressure FOMO users by creating excitement around the project, increasing the audience, and promising rewards for participating in the game.
What users say
Hamster Kombat players interviewed by crypto.news admitted that they started playing the game thanks to the Notcoin project. At the same time, they were not sure these games could bring real income, but after the listing and growth of the Notcoin (NOT) coin, it became clear that they could make good money.
“So now it makes sense to enter into promising projects because… It’s not difficult to devote a little time to a toy that has a pleasant interface and meaning.”
Hamster Kombat player
Users highlight the excitement of the game and the opportunity to earn money almost passively as the main reasons they play Hamster Kombat.
However, many agree that, given the number of players in Hamster Kombat, it is unlikely to make much profit.
Should users start playing Hamster Kombat, or is it too late?
The idea of such a clicker is not new because the NOT creators initially used it. Users received tokens to accumulate points in the Notcoin clicker. After listing, one real NOT coin was given for 1000 units of game currency.
The significant advantage of Hamster Kombat and other similar clickers is their accessibility. For many, these games open up the cryptocurrency world and can help them earn their first money on digital assets. The only risk is the loss of time if the project cannot place its cryptocurrency on the exchange.
It is unknown how the crypto asset will perform over time. Meme coins usually skyrocket at the start, but then their value reaches zero. Those who started collecting coins earlier will earn money.
The more coins a particular player has, the better. But the more coins the community has, the greater the chance they will depreciate. And the 100,000 taps on a hamster will, at best, bring the user a couple of hundred dollars.
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