Have you ever tried playing blockchain games? I did. Blockchain games seemingly became a promising opportunity for investment after Crypto Kitties success. But time showed that it was another hyped blockchain feature that nobody interested in. Let’s take a look a little at these games genres and it’s risks.

Why blockchain games are so unpopular?

Sorry not sorry. Blockchain games are not very interesting to play. The gameplay looks corny for 2019 and they have so many bugs you want to leave it after a couple of hours. I believe it’s the main reason of a failure — blockchain games devs are too lazy to create something worthwhile.

Blockchain games has so many genres with it’s own risks.

Blockchain games has about 5 different genres and each of them has it’s problems. Yeah, sounds crappy.

Crypto collectibles

I have to be honest. There are good games and I admit it. These two collectible games that remind each other and I play them from time to time.

The first collectible game was CryptoKitties and it used to be very popular. You could have sell you kittie for thousands of dollars so there was a kitty fever. All you need to do is to breed your own kitty and hope that anyone will want to buy it. However, unlike hot potato games, it’s safe. What is more, breeding your pet is nice and reminds me of tamagotchi (you can even feel slight sadness after selling your kitty). However, you have to be ready to lose tons of time and money.

Hot Potato games

In other words it’s oldy goldy Ponzi scheme games. All you have to do is to purchase a token hoping that another person would buy it off their hands for a higher price. It’s very risky because you will never know if anyone will ever obtain your token. There is no plot or gameplay. It’s passing around a coin that everyone wants to sell.

Hot potato games are the one of the reasons why blockchain games fail to earn people trust.There are too many Ponzi games. I don’t consider them for games, but that is how these Ponzi things call themselves.Which influence blockchain games reputation. I would say it ruins blockchain games for too many people. When a regular person hears anything about blockchain games, he/she imagines an online casino, instead of second-rate game with a weak poll.

The main rule is never to buy cheaper or for the same price than the other owner bought. And I have to agree, it is boring.

Gambling

If you want to understand what is a gambling game you need to imagine an online casino. It’s pretty much the same but working on blockchain. Well… I respect when developers around the world integrate blockchain in healthcare or charity. It save lives and make the world better. But using blockchain for online casinos should be discredit blockchain reputation/affect blockchain reputation.

We also have two more categories:

RPG, MMORPG, Strategy, Idle, and others

And Off-chain crypto games

The represent games as we used to picture them: card games, shooters and so on. There is nothing wrong with them (except poor graphics and bugs in development). There are some nice games, but they will never be mass adopted. That’s disappointing and sad. But I still hope to see a worthwhile blockchain game.

Conclusion

Blockchain games are not so bad if you have a lot of free time and nothing else to do. I would enjoy them if there were nothing left on the Earth but blockchain games after a nuclear war. However, lots of people like it. Maybe you’ll come to like them too.