Gate News message, April 23 — According to a Caladan report cited by CoinDesk, Web3 gaming has burned up to $15 billion in pursuit of token-driven growth but failed to gain player adoption. Approximately 93% of GameFi projects have effectively failed, with token values down roughly 95% from 2022 peaks. Gaming funding to studios contracted 93% in 2025, and over 300 blockchain games have shut down.
Notable casualties include Pixelmon, which raised $70 million in an NFT sale in 2022 but has yet to release a public game four years later; Ember Sword, which burned $18 million over seven years of development before shutting down in May 2025 without refunds; and Gala Games, which faces litigation over allegations that co-founders misappropriated $130 million in tokens. Axie Infinity, once a flagship title, saw daily active users plummet from a peak of roughly 2.7 million to approximately 5,500. Hamster Kombat lost 96% of its users within six months of launch, and gaming guild token YGG declined 99.6% from its November 2021 peak.
Capital allocation tells a stark story: gaming represented 62.5% of Web3 venture funding in 2022 but fell to single digits by 2025, with capital redirected toward AI, real-world asset tokenization, and Layer 2 infrastructure. Even Animoca Brands, the sector’s most active supporter, reduced gaming to roughly 25% of its portfolio, pivoting toward stablecoins, RWA, and AI. Research from Coda Labs found that only 12% of players had tried crypto games even at the height of the hype.
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