The Best New Metaverse Game Projects to Watch in 2022
Bit.Country, PlayMining and Syn City are three blockchain-based Metaverse projects gamers were watching heading into 2022.
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In brief
AI summaryBit.Country lets users build their own Metaverse worlds and bring their own cryptocurrency to reward followers and contributors.
PlayMining, launched in May 2020, rewards players with NFTs instead of charging them, and hosts the trading card game JobTribes.
Syn City is a mafia-themed play-to-earn game that raised over $8 million in 2021 and had over 200,000 sign-ups by early 2022.
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After Facebook embraced the Metaverse universe, even renaming itself Meta, it introduced us to a new world of blockchain projects that combine the concepts of virtual reality, digital worlds and cryptocurrencies.
The Metaverse refers to computer-generated worlds where people can roam with their avatars, explore, interact with other users, play games, start a business, and buy and sell land and other assets.
The Metaverse took the digital world by storm in late 2021 with countless projects serving as a facilitator for social interaction, business, entertainment, gaming and education! Their popularity skyrocketed, and given their current momentum, it's clear they'll become a much bigger part of our culture as the new year goes on.
Without further ado, here are the three most promising Metaverse projects you should keep an eye on in 2022!
Bit.Country
The Metaverse is entirely about creating value and human connections, and Bit.Country is doing its part by making it more accessible to everyone, regardless of location, background or beliefs.
Built on metaverse.Network, which is based on Substrate within the Polkadot ecosystem, Bit.Country's metaversions are hosted on its Continuum. The Continuum can be thought of as a map of all "Bit Countries," with a limited number of coordinates and a future shape driven entirely by community members.
Could Bit.Country Be an Alternative to SandBox and Decentraland?
Every new Bit Country metaverse that's created will be placed as a new block at a location within the Continuum. Metaverse creators can customize the style, shape and texture of their block worlds, and the space inside that block can be divided into 100 sections that can be independently owned and traded among users. The owners or hosts of each section can then place assets inside their sections, provide services, display NFTs, or run events. Community members can import their favorite cryptocurrency, which can be used to purchase assets, pay for services, or participate in community events and governance, or even create their own cryptocurrency. It's a refreshing alternative to existing metaverses like SandBox and Decentraland, where most of the rules have already been set.
Bit.Country's ultimate goal is to create a world of continuous communities where metaverse worlds can grow exponentially and offer multiple opportunities for their communities to join in and earn. It's a project with a long-term vision that promises to create a new level of social interaction that provides unique benefits to its users.
PlayMining
Built by Digital Entertainment Asset, PlayMining is a metaverse-based play-to-earn gaming platform that aims to transform users by rewarding them for playing, rather than charging them money to compete.
PlayMining wants to reverse this dynamic by creating a game economy that leverages blockchain, cryptocurrency and NFTs to reward players instead of encouraging them to spend. With PlayMining games, players earn assets in the form of NFTs from their in-game activities. Blockchain-based NFTs guarantee true ownership of assets, meaning they can be bought and sold for crypto that can in turn be exchanged for real-world money, ensuring players and creators are rewarded for their efforts.
PlayMining launched its platform in May 2020 and currently hosts three highly popular play-to-earn games, including its flagship trading card battle game JobTribes, which ranks ninth on DappRadar's gaming leaderboard and has over 40,000 monthly active users. Other games on PlayMining include the puzzle game PlayMining Puzzle×JobTribes and the coin-minting game Lucky Farmer.
In total, PlayMining claims that more than two million players from over 100 countries have joined its play-to-earn token economy, a number it expects to grow as more games launch in 2022. The multitasking cooking game Cookin' Burger is set to launch this spring, followed by the debut of the coloring and racing game Graffiti Racer in the summer.
DEA's PlayMining is an innovative project that's already showing that profitable gaming isn't just a pipe dream. Heading into 2022, it has a real chance to shake up the video game industry as we know it.
Syn City
A massive play-to-earn game worth watching, focused on bringing more access to new users, goes by the name of Syn City, a mafia syndicate game!
https://twitter.com/SynCityHQ/status/1478913358812172290?s=20&t=1DD-hQbEPaayOuJ_IXbCPg
Syn City leverages the concept of tokenized game assets in the form of NFTs that can be owned both in-game and across the broader metaverse. It's built within a framework similar to many traditional mafia war games, where players are tasked with building their characters and crews, gathering and managing resources, forming strategies, planning raids, and attacking other players.
Also of interest is Syn City's unique Mafia-as-a-DAO governance system, which lets players run their own syndicates. It's a fresh take on the idea of a decentralized autonomous organization, where the community votes on proposals within their own syndicates as well as on the game's overall direction. This creates a system that ensures Syn City's metaverse universe is transparent, provably fair, and playable.
Syn City's unique model won over many fans with an impressive funding round that topped $8 million in 2021, and its IGO then jumped $3.5 million just 30 minutes after launching on the Binance NFT platform in December — now a number one in collections.
With more than 200,000 eager mafiosi signed up so far, the Syn City metaverse is among the games poised to take the blockchain gaming ecosystem by storm in 2022.
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Could Bit.Country Be an Alternative to SandBox and Decentraland?
Every new Bit Country metaverse that's created will be placed as a new block at a location within the Continuum. Metaverse creators can customize the style, shape and texture of their block worlds, and the space inside that block can be divided into 100 sections that can be independently owned and traded among users. The owners or hosts of each section can then place assets inside their sections, provide services, display NFTs, or run events. Community members can import their favorite cryptocurrency, which can be used to purchase assets, pay for services, or participate in community events and governance, or even create their own cryptocurrency. It's a refreshing alternative to existing…
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