Best Play to Earn (P2E) Games and Upcoming P2E Games (2022)

The growing popularity of Play to Earn (P2E) games continues day by day. P2E games have gained a huge fan base in the blockchain space, and is there a better way to learn about them than diving straight into the P2E world? Below, we have listed for you some of the best-performing games available as of February 2022, as well as the best upcoming games that have not yet been released. What are the best Play to Earn (P2E) games? Let's take a look together.

Best Play to Earn (P2E) Games of 2022!

Axie Infinity

Axie Infinity is an NFT game inspired by Nintendo's classic Pokemon series, in which players let their virtual pets battle to compete with each other, upgrade their own characters and assets, and complete daily quests and other in-game activities. Axie rewards players with Smooth Love Potion (SLP) tokens, the platform's currency, which they collect and use to improve their pets' traits, buy new ones or convert to fiat currencies. With a total of $2.6 billion in NFT trading volume, Axie Infinity is one of the most popular NFT games as of February 2022.

Alien Worlds

Alien Worlds is a blockchain-based video game that features a simulation of the Earth economy through the Trilium (TLM) game token. It is powered by an NFT-based social metadata database in which users can perform tasks to mine TLM. In the game, the player takes on the role of an adventurer from the year 2055, and the game has a metadata repository in which everything can be tokenized through NFTs, allowing players to buy advanced in-game tools to increase their mining efficiency.

Splinterlands

Splinterlands is a collectible card trading game that lets players earn crypto rewards by completing in-game achievements such as skill-based matches and player-versus-player (PvP) game modes. The game lets players own NFT-based digital cards that can be traded and sold. Splinterlands has a native in-game token called Dark Energy Crystals (DEC), which supports the game's incentive system and is given to players when they win tournaments or ranked battles or complete in-game quests.

Arc8 by GAMEE

Arc8 is a P2E mobile platform where users can play games against each other to earn rewards. It is powered by the GMEE token, which is used to pay entry fees for special events and to buy in-game assets. GMEE holders can also take part in the games' voting functions, which cover decisions on each game's roadmap, future distributions and the allocation of rewards and prize pools.

Farmers World

Farmers World is an NFT-based farming game that lets players buy farming tools, in-game resources, land and more to grow their own farms and earn reward tokens. It also offers free-to-play mechanics beyond the regular P2E system. Inspired by the once-popular Facebook-based Farmville, Farmers Word lets players improve their virtual farms, grow plants and fish, and raise livestock for fattening and poultry, among other similar activities. Players can also visit other farms to compete with other players for resources.

Star Atlas

Star Atlas is an MMORPG set in a galactic universe in the year 2620, where players can compete and cooperate to explore the metaverse, own land, build cities, complete missions, trade with each other and go on many other adventures. Star Atlas has a 3D world that players can experience in VR, which makes it one of the most anticipated games in the Solana ecosystem. The game's market and its two supported cryptocurrencies, ATLAS and POLIS, saw frenzied activity even before the game's launch in October 2021.

The Sandbox

The Sandbox was originally released by Pixowl as a mobile game in 2012, but was later acquired by Animoca Brands and relaunched in late 2021 as an NFT-powered metaverse game. It has a virtual world in which players can create, own and monetize their own games and creations in the game's digital world. They can also own in-game digital land that can be monetized and sold for SAND tokens, the in-game cryptocurrency.

What Are the Upcoming Play to Earn (P2E) Games?

Doctor Who: Worlds Apart

The game is based on the classic science fiction series Doctor Who, which follows the exploits of an alien being who commands time travel technology. To be fully released in the near future, Doctor Who: Worlds Apart will have a trading card game in which users can compete with each other through a unique deck of cards each.

Monsters Clan

Monsters Clan is another eagerly awaited NFT game with game mechanics similar to Axie Infinity, in which players can compete through monster battles, craft monsters in a lab, upgrade their stats with potions and much more. The game also includes a rental feature that lets players earn passive income by lending out their monsters, caves, lands, potions and other in-game items. Monsters Clan is set for an alpha release soon and will be published on Binance Smart Chain (BSC). Players can earn tokens through PvP battles or by completing in-game quests.

Illuvium

Illuvium is a blockchain-based role-playing game (RPG) featuring 3D characters and monsters. Players can earn tokens by mining, harvesting, completing quests and racing head-to-head against other players. It was set for a beta launch in the first quarter of 2022.