Splinterlands

Genres: CARDS

Splinterlands is a free-to-play digital trading card game built on the Hive blockchain, one of the longest-running Web3 games with over seven years of active development since its 2018 launch. Players collect, trade, and battle with 860+ unique NFT cards across seven elemental Splinters, competing in strategic autobattler-style PvP matches across six ranked leagues. The game features card leveling through combining, a rental marketplace, foil variants, land ownership with resource production, Guild Brawls, and seasonal competitive play. Winner of Best Card Game at the Blockchain Game Awards 2025. Splinterlands operates a DAO-governed economy with the SPS governance token and DEC in-game currency, with cross-chain bridges to BSC, Ethereum, Polygon, and BASE alongside its native Hive infrastructure.

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