Web3 Games tokens and NFTs have a direct relationship with the Crypto market, which tends to follow changes in the global economy. At the beginning of 2025, the global economic scenario is extremely difficult to predict because we are experiencing tariff wars and geopolitical tensions around the world. All of this generates uncertainty, and as economists say, “It is better to have bad news than no news at all.” Since the market cannot predict the future, people are starting to withdraw liquidity from riskier assets, such as cryptos, and leaving it in places they consider safer.
This movement has a direct impact on web3 games and we will be able to observe this through the data provided by the DappRadap Report, made in partnership with the Blockchain Game Alliance. In addition, we will explore some more changes in the Ronin network, which has undergone a major change with the implementation of Open Ronin and its partnership with OpenSea and has games with strong new features. Finally, we will understand what the expectations will be for this year.
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Blockchain Gaming - Decline in Users?
The data disclosed in the report indicates that the web3 industry across all segments was average or declining in terms of the number of Daily Unique Active Wallets. Regarding Games and DeFi, they were the ones that were most impacted, reducing 6% in a constant decline since the end of the year and the beginning of 2025, where they went from 7.5M and are now seeking 5M dUAW.
One detail is that DeFi and Games seem to have a certain relationship, because web3 games generally reward their players with tokens and some of these players make LPs with these tokens or exchange them in DeFi itself, so this reduction shows that the entire crypto scenario was impacted by the fall of bitcoin.
Web3 Games Highlights - Ronin Games
A first highlight that is more recent was the partnership of the NFT farming game PIXELS with Forgotten Runiverse, which is an MMO that has just started. The highlight of this partnership is that PIXELS players will be able to use the $PIXEL token to gain benefits within the Runiverse universe. The importance of this is that this may be the first Cross-Game Token, that is, the first game used in two completely different games. If this works out, it is quite possible that more games will follow this example and start looking for partnerships to increase the usefulness of their tokens.
Source: Axie Blog – Introducing Atia’s Legacy
Now what may be the biggest highlight of the NFT games was the announcement by the Axie Infinity team, that they are developing the first MMO of the franchise, which will be called Atia’s Legacy. This was a news that players were waiting for a long time, because it will be possible to use NFTs to explore this new world. The pre-registration hype for this new game was so great that the game's official trailer surpassed 1 million views on YouTube and there were more than 17 million users registered for the game's beta.
Future of Web3 Gaming: Investments & Expectations
Due to the complicated situation of the international economic scenario, the impacts on Web3 Gaming projects have come with a 74% reduction in the last four months, going from 314 million dollars invested to 91 million. This marks in part the issue of uncertainty that investors are going through. However, even in the midst of this pessimistic scenario, investments continue to be made, which is already positive in itself and even though the amount is smaller, the number of negotiations increased by 35%.
Of this total, the majority, almost 70%, is being applied to infrastructure, which shows that the focus is not on now or next year, but on an investment that will allow these web3 games to attract and retain the public for a long time without having problems with the game server or with the interaction with the blockchain. This shows that even though the news is not good in the short term, the future is still positive. One example is that this year we will still have two tests of Axie Infinity's MMO, Atia's Legacy, which promises to revolutionize the scenario.
