Welcome to our regular look at the most popular blockchain games, using data from DappRadar.
Has Pixels’ daily activity finally stabilized after its big decline?
The data appears to show that’s the case. Following a small jump in mid May, the social farming game has been running at over 40,000 DAUWs in the first weeks of June.
The better news, however, is that the PIXEL token has more than doubled in price compared to early April thanks to the launch of the PIXEL staking ecosystem, which now has around 90 million tokens ($4 million-worth) staked into games. We await to see how future changes to the game itself impact activity.
Another game that appears to have found its floor audience is idle RPG Nine Chronicles, which has fallen from its early 2025 level of around 80,000 DAUWs to just below 40,000 DAUWs. Developer Planetarium hopes the launch of new games using its NCG token will drive more activity later in 2025.
As for the most popular blockchain games, that’s currently Axie Infinity and Alien Worlds, which are both doing over 100,000 DAUWs on a regular basis, and have now done so since February.
But there is a new contender.
Nexon’s MapleStory N MMORPG launched in mid May and has seen steady growth in terms of the Henesys blockchain that runs both the game and the MapleStory Universe marketplace on which its NFTs trade.
It recently peaked at over 80,000 DAUWs, and if the growth trajectory continues at the current rate, it looks likely to surpass both Axie Infinity and Alien Worlds sometime in July.
Indeed, the Henesys blockchain is also now the most popular gaming blockchain in the Avalanche ecosystem. Following MapleStory N’s launch, it immediately surpassed the likes of Beam and DeFi Kingdom’s DFK chain.
The situation on Gunzilla’s Gunz blockchain on which Off The Grid runs is more complex, however, as the majority of players of the console shooter remain using the Gunz’s testnet. We won’t get a proper understanding of its true onchain activity until all accounts are migrated to the mainnet. Gunzilla is yet to provide a timeframe when this might happen.
Things are not looking good for two key games on Immutable’s zkEVM chain, however.
Pixel MMORPG RavenQuest launched well on the 14th March, but after peaking at 15,000 DAUWs, activity has since declined down to around 4,000, which is where mobile RPG Guild of Guardians finds itself 12-months-on from its app stores launch.
You can get more analysis in the following video.