Web3 Games to Watch in 2024 🔮

The most exciting onchain games, and how they're onboarding the masses.

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Juan Leal
February 23, 2024

AAA gaming has arrived to web3! 🎮

With 1,600+ weekly active games being powered by our tools, we’ve seen a transformational shift in the quality of web3 games being launched today — resembling traditional AAA games while enabling digital ownership for players.

One of those games is Torque Drift 2, onboarding 330,000+ players in 2 months since launch — no wallet needed.

It’s completely free-to-play and live on the Epic Games store, and players can unlock interoperable NFTs from world-renowned partners like Nissan, Subaru, and Mazda — usable inside & out of the game.

The best part? Torque Drift 2 is designed to onboard every player to web3:

→ Sign-in with email or social account
→ Create in-game app wallets for players
→ No gas fees, wallet popups, or transaction requests in-game

Learn more about how Torque Drift 2 is bringing digital ownership to all players & onboarding the masses to web3, without the complexity:

🧵 Deep Dive: 6 Web3 Games to Watch in 2024

📹️ YouTube: Create an NFT Minting Farcaster Frame

One of the catalysts for Farcaster’s explosive growth over the past few weeks was its launch of Farcaster Frames — enabling developers to build “mini-apps” that are embedded directly into posts.

We launched our own Farcaster Frame that enabled users to mint NFTs from a post, and created a guide for you to do the same:

✦ Works on any Farcaster client with Frames support
✦ Plug in any NFT smart contract, on any EVM chain
✦ Requires users to like & repost to mint

Get started & build your own NFT Minting Frame on Farcaster:

📱 Product Update: In-App Purchases for Web3 Mobile Games (on iOS & Android)

🔮 Mint to Read: The 2023 Consumer Crypto Report

2023 was a huge year for web3 — with numerous consumer crypto apps leveraging onchain tech & gaining meaningful traction.

The 2023 Consumer Crypto Report is a 30+ page report on the growth of web3 — with insights & data from Optimism, Ava Labs, & 10+ partners on how crypto is disrupting collectibles, social media, gaming, & more.

Get the report for free & mint your 2023 Consumer Crypto NFT:

🚢 thirdweb Changelog: Weekly Product Updates

Here are some of the updates we’ve made in the past few weeks:

We’re constantly shipping product updates to make thirdweb better. Get the latest updates in our Changelog.

Have a great rest of your week shippin’! 🚢 🛠️ 

And if you’re ever looking for 50,000+ other builders to learn from & share your web3 journey with, look no further than our Discord community 🤝