Welcome to our regular look at the most popular blockchain games, using data from DappRadar.
Looking back over the year-to-date, the big changes have been the decline of Pixels and to a lesser degree that of Nine Chronicles.
As discussed in our most recent interview with Pixels’ CEO Luke Barwikowski, much of the game’s reduction in DAUWs has been an active decision to tighten the reward structure to better reward players who are committed and spending.
However, there has been more positive news from Alien Worlds, which continues to maintain its position as the most popular blockchain game, at least in terms of daily activity, as it’s been above the symbolic 100,000 DAUWs for the vast majority of 2025.
The best performance from a new game has come from Nexpace’s MapleStory N and its wider MapleStory Universe, however.
Tracking all activity on its Henesys blockchain shows the ecosystem has maintained a level of around 60,000 DAUWs, down slightly from a peak of over 80,000, perhaps due to the project’s continuing focus on banning bots and accounts using macros.
However, the big change in terms of daily gaming activity in October was the drop in Axie Infinity’s audience from over 100,000 down as low as 60,000 DAUWs.
As with Pixels, this was a direct result from Sky Mavis changing the game’s reward structure, reducing the ease of gaining daily rewards while also introducing a paid battle pass.
The result is that a lot of AXS is still being given away to encourage activity but the distribution has changed so that rewards are directed towards more engaged players.
Another game that’s really worth keeping an eye on is Gunzilla’s shooter Off The Grid, which is transitioning more of its players from its Gunz testnet to the Gunz mainnet, although all console players remain on the testnet as do PC players outside of the EU.
Looking at two data samples also highlights some of the complexity of tracking game data. The blue line is data taken from Avalanche’s block explorer, which tracks all the wallet activity on Gunz blockchain.
In comparison, DappRadar’s data comes from Off The Grid’s smart contracts, which is likely a better measure of the game’s actual playerbase. The big blue spikes from Gunz are a result of Gunzilla performing the one-time migration of accounts from the Gunz testnet to its mainnet, hence recording a mixture of still-active and now-legacy accounts.
You can get more analysis in the following video.