Blockchain video game ‘Off The Grid’ reaches mainstream audiences as it tops charts

After the blockchain-based video game ‘Off The Grid’ was released in early access on October 8, it has since climbed to the top of the charts becoming the ‘Most Popular Free-to-Play’ game.

The game is now sitting in the number one spot on the Epic Games Store charts, a first for a blockchain game.

The cyberpunk-themed battle royale was created by Gunzilla Games and it features an optional NFT (non-fungible tokens) element. This is built on an Avalanche subnet called GUNZ which the team behind the game describes as being “one of the first player-friendly crypto-economies in a AAA game.”

The hope is that this will “empower players by granting them complete ownership over their in-game items in the form of NFTs.”

While it brings crypto to gaming, the game is playable without buying NFTs. In an FAQ on Off The Grid’s website, they say: “If you want to try out NFTs, you can; if you don’t want to, you don’t have to.

“It’s entirely up to the player how they want to play the game…”

Off The Grid is now the Most Popular F2P game on @EpicGames!