What Kind of Games Can We Put on the Blockchain?

Types of P2E games

In terms of complexity, P2E games range anywhere from a simple coin flip, such as Polyflip's (which nonetheless generated more than $5 million in volume, as of the time of writing), to full-blown 3D MMORPGs with thousands of simultaneous players, such as Yuga Labs' Otherside.

It means that any game can potentially be a P2E. However, for the purpose of blockchain development, the following features matter:

• Whether the access to the game is NFT-gated or open to anyone.

• Whether the game has its own cryptocurrency or uses the native currency of the blockchain (ETH in the case of Ethereum).

• Whether the game is single or multiplayer. For our own purpose, we'll look at a multiplayer game as a game where players can compete against each other or collaborate, and a single-player game as a game where each player competes separately.

• Whether the game provides verifiable randomness or not, that is, whether the platform allows players to see how pseudo-random numbers are generated.

• What parts of the games are computed and stored on-chain versus off-chain?

Blockchain as a ledger of record for important game milestones