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Blockchain games often have several tokens, dozens of categories of NFTs, and complex reward mechanisms for attracting and retaining players. Add in bots and wash trading, and assessing organic interest and potential in a particular project accurately is challenging.
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.
GameFi data and information aggregation platform 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.
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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.
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'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.
2. 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.
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.
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The following panel makes it clearer that Footprint Analytics is parsing more gold-level data. It helps users to analyze GameFi's daily transaction volume, user and count metrics, as well as compare data metrics between different protocols, etc.
These indicators are key indicators for analyzing GameFi projects, not only for novices, game enthusiasts, investors, but also for institutions such as project parties.
As a result, most reflect the continued stability of project trends by focusing on on-chain user activity, and use sustainable growth in user data and increased protocol revenue as a way to measure the health of a project.
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:
3. DappRadar
DappRadar monitors 35+ blockchains on their GameFi board. The main function of the platform is to view the currently popular or newly developed dApp website addresses, transaction volume, and daily activity data. Currently covering 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 intuitive 24-hour, 7-day, 30-day rankings, while each game will display extensive information in its own game profile.
However, it should be noted that the top-ranked applications are not necessarily high-quality, because some game projects are ranked up through internal trading volume.
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Access to game dApp ranking and numbers.
Game dApp basic data indicators, which can be used to quickly reflect the activity of the project.
4. 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.
The highlight of the platform is the popular reviews and the visual presentation of the token ROI, which is very user-friendly for users who are new to the game.
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It is usually used to feed back the sum of 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.
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 so you can make your choice faster.
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