4 Tools for Analyzing GameFi Projects

GameFi projects are complex because they involve NFTs, DeFi, and tokenomics overlapping on top of core gameplay.

In blockchain games, several tokens, dozens of categories of NFTs, and complex reward mechanisms are typically set up to attract and retain players. Meanwhile, adding bots and cleaning transactions at the same time makes it challenging to accurately assess the benefits and potential of a given project.

That is why it’s critical to analyze GameFi projects’ underlying data before investing your time and money, whether you’re a VC investor or casual gamer.

The tools listed below are built to tackle the complexities of GameFi analysis to help you make smarter decisions in the blockchain industry.

DeGame

As a data and information aggregation platform for GameFi, DeGame helps players and investors discover high-quality games and P2E opportunities with game discovery, strategy, download statistics, data tracking and professional analysis.

As of Nov. 20, DeGame has information about 3106 gaming projects on more than 55 different types of blockchains. The platform mainly covers games, tokens, events and resources.

Use Cases:

We can get information about different games such as a general overview, peak market cap,user growth, address growth, and popularity, as well as discover trending games, new games, and more.

DeGame

For each game, DeGame has extensive information including on-chain data, reviews, token prices, and guides. For example, the overall profile of Alien Worlds is as follows.

DeGame - Alien Worlds

DeGame’s analytics tools are geared towards game enthusiasts, investors, and developers. The metrics presented through the platform give them unique insights into market trends, gameplay strategies, on-chain data analysis, and ongoing game projects.

Footprint Analytics

Footprint Analytics is a one-stop on-chain data analytics platform covering GameFi, DeFi, NFT and more. It helps developers, analysts and investors to get actionable metrics from on-chain data.

As of Nov. 20, the platform indexes 20+ blockchains, not only with raw data, but also structured and segmented data, which is the core strength of Footprint Analytics.As most platforms only provide raw data, Footprint Analytics aims to provide accurate and user-friendly experience by directly understanding how difficult it is to use the raw data and then calculating the metrics before providing it to the user.

In addition to this, the analytics platform includes information on more than 2,000 game projects, with a focus on exploration, tracking, player activity, game project profiles and other information. Footprint Analytics data has been used for reports by other trusted names in the industry such as CoinmarketCap and DeGame.

DeGame - Alien Worlds

DeGame’s analytics tools are geared towards game enthusiasts, investors, and developers. The metrics presented through the platform give them unique insights into market trends, gameplay strategies, on-chain data analysis, and ongoing game projects.


Footprint GameFi Data

Footprint Analytics displays a number of dashboards related to GameFi data that can be used directly in various analytics reports. The following figure shows one of the research report analysis dashboards with metrics that include:

• GameFi Overall Market Performance
• Chain-by-Chain Analysis
• Top GameFi Tokens to Watch
• GameFi Fundraising Analysis
• Games to Watch
• Chains to Watch
  
  2022 GameFi Industry Report

DappRadar

DappRadar monitors 35+ blockchains on their GameFi board. The main function of the platform is to view the popular or newly developed dApp website addresses, transaction volume, and daily activity data. DappRadar currently covers more than 2000 GameFi applications, users can use this data to determine whether to enter the game.

The biggest highlight of the platform is the 24-hour, 7-day, 30-day rankings, while each game will display extensive information in its own game profile.

DappRadar - Splinterlands

DappRadar

However, it should be noted that the top-ranked applications are not necessarily high-quality, because some game projects are ranked up through click farming.

Use cases:

Access to game dApp ranking and numbers.

• You can access the growth of game projects through the game project ranking.
• The growth in the number of dApps is used as one of the indicators to assess the growth or trend of the GameFi industry.

Game dApp basic data indicators, which can be used to quickly reflect the activity of the project.

• Unique active wallet, the unique address that interacts with a given smart contract. Therefore, a unique active wallet is not a so-called unique independent user, as a person may use different wallets to interact with a single dApp.
• Volume, the total amount of value passed into the dApp’s smart contract.
• Transactions, the number of transactions made to the dApp’s smart contract.
• Balance, the total value of the dApp’s smart contract assets.

GameFi.org

GameFi.org is a game center that integrates games, guilds, and metaverses. Designed for gamers, developers and investors to build relationships, stay up to date and support the overall growth of the GameFi ecosystem.

GameFi.org - Top Review

GameFi.org - Token ROI

The highlight of the platform is the popular reviews and the visual presentation of the token ROI, which is very user-friendly for those who are new to the game.

Use cases:

It is usually used to capture game information and facts. Provide gamers and traders with a wealth of valuable information through interaction (including watching, liking and commenting), sharing, reviewing and rating.

• Most Popular: Lists the most common video games, with the most interactive portfolios.
• New Releases: Includes Alpha, Open Beta, Closed Beta and official releases.
• Most Viewed: The games with the most visitors to the site on GameFi.org.
• Token ROI: The current return on investment of the token (current selling price / public selling price).
• Trending: The most popular video games with the most interactions in the last 7 days on GameFi.org.
• Top Rated: The game that received the most reviews.

Summary

In summary, each of the 4 GameFi analytics tools mentioned above has different highlights. Below is a brief overview of the highlights of these platforms.

• DeGame - Focuses on the presentation of P2E platforms information
• Footprint Analytics - Tracking of multiple data metrics on the chain, providing a comprehensive view of the overall GameFi market performance
• DappRadar - 35+ chain app queries, focusing on dAPPs ranking and P2E game data
• GameFi.org - Game info and facts from user interactions, great for those new to the game