Here’s why 31% of blockchains games were shuttered in 2023

The Huge Blockchain Sport Listing, created by Jon Jordan, discovered that 407 video games out of the 1,322 video games that had been ever included within the checklist, had been discontinued final yr. Subsequently, 31% of all blockchain video games within the checklist had been halted in 2023.

Of the 407 video games that went darkish, the bulk had been shuttered within the first half of the yr — 248 video games had been discontinued within the first half of 2023 in comparison with 162 video games within the second half.

Fifty (50) or 31% of the video games discontinued within the second half of 2023 had been stay whereas the remaining 69% had been within the improvement part when shuttered.

With 18 discontinued video games, the BNB chain noticed the very best variety of scrapped blockchain video games whereas Polygon got here an in depth second with 17 video games going darkish. 10 blockchains video games on Ethereum had been discontinued within the second half of 2023 whereas Sui and Solana every recorded a lack of 9 video games.

It’s value noting that the blockchain for 15% of the video games discontinued in H2 2023 was marked as “unknown” within the Huge Blockchain Sport Listing information. That is seemingly as a result of a number of small video games, particularly these of their improvement levels, usually don’t clearly state the blockchain they use of their documentation or social media channels.

Most canceled video games cited funding and market circumstances as the rationale for discontinuation. Whereas most cancellations included small video games, two distinguished ones discontinued final yr embody Legendary Video games’ Blankos Block Occasion and Targets.

On Dec. 18 final yr, Legendary Video games sundown its desktop sport Blankos Block Occasion, launched a yr and a half earlier. Legendary Video games introduced that it’ll give attention to launching a cell sport as an alternative.

Targets had raised seed funding of $15 million in 2022, topped up by $40 million in 2023. Nonetheless, the crew introduced that it’ll not be integrating blockchain.