‘Hamster Kombat’ Token Hits All-Time Low as Telegram Game Finally Returns

Months after its deliberate second season debut, smash hit Telegram recreation Hamster Kombat is lastly again in motion with a relaunched gameplay expertise—however its token solely fell additional Tuesday, reaching a brand new all-time low value.

HMSTR, which runs on The Open Community (TON), dropped as little as $0.001461 on Tuesday, per information from CoinGecko, marking its lowest value up to now. Up barely to a present value of $0.0015`, HMSTR is down practically 7% on the day.

The coin has plummeted 79% from its all-time excessive value set again on the launch in September 2024.

Hamster Kombat attracted greater than 300 million gamers final 12 months because the Telegram tap-to-earn phenomenon began to permeate the mainstream. Nonetheless, the hype collapsed as soon as the token debuted.

Round 130 million gamers had been eligible for the token airdrop, and plenty of complained of receiving “mud” from the token declare as a result of the allocations had been smaller than anticipated. Now, the Telegram mini app exhibits solely about 12 million month-to-month gamers, down dramatically from final 12 months’s peak.

Season 2 of the sport was imagined to debut only a couple weeks after the token dropped, however was delayed a number of occasions. Late final 12 months, the nameless improvement staff mentioned that it could as an alternative launch a “HamsterVerse” of related video games as an alternative of simply the following season that was beforehand teased.

HamsterVerse has arrived, led by Hamster Kombat: GameDev Hero—the expertise beforehand teased as Season 2. It maintains among the tap-to-earn parts as earlier than, however now you are constructing a staff of builders and cranking out video games, all of which helps enhance your earnings.

Screenshots from Hamster Kombat: GameDev Heroes. Picture: Decrypt

One other recreation, a easy fight expertise referred to as Hamster Combat Membership, can be obtainable from the HamsterVerse mini app launcher on Telegram. Different video games, Hamster Increase and Hamster King, are listed as being in closed beta testing.

The long-running “interlude” season of Hamster Kombat has ended, with gamers incomes rewards for the following wave of HamsterVerse video games primarily based on what number of diamonds they earned throughout that simplified season. The interlude season was solely deliberate to final for a pair weeks, however ended up working for months resulting from delays for the following season.

All the video games are deliberate to supply HMSTR token rewards.