Overview
PlayToEarn is a games directory that lets you browse crypto and NFT games, filter them by genre, device, or release status, and see which games are live or cancelled. Every game gets a row showing what state it is in, which devices it runs on, whether it costs anything to start, and a score for how much attention it is drawing1.
The page listed here is the site's Cardano view, a filtered slice of the wider catalogue holding every game tagged as running on Cardano. The status column is what makes that view worth reading: a small number are marked Live, a substantial share are marked Cancelled, and the remainder sit in development, alpha, or beta1. PlayToEarn is run by a Singapore-registered company2 that also publishes several gaming news articles a day3 and runs an annual awards event4.
Key Features
- Status labels that show you what was abandoned. Every listing carries a status pill reading Live, Presale, Alpha, Beta, Development, or Cancelled. Cancelled listings stay on the page instead of disappearing1.
- Filters that stack into a shareable link. You can narrow by genre, release status, device, whether the game uses NFTs, whether it is free to start, and how it pays out. Each combination becomes its own web address, so a filtered view can be bookmarked or passed on1.
- A score that measures attention, not quality. The PlayToEarn Score blends how much a game is discussed on social platforms with how much interest it draws on the site itself. PlayToEarn states that the score does not measure a game's safety, legitimacy, or quality, and that the weightings are not published2.
- Paid badges are labelled as paid. A blue or gold check mark means the game's team pays for the listing or subscribes to a tier. The site says a badge indicates "paid interest behind a listing, not our endorsement, and not a statement that we have inspected or validated the game"2.
- Games list themselves. Entries are submitted by the teams behind them through a separate business portal rather than picked by an editor, and submitted websites are re-checked every two weeks so dead links surface5.
What to Expect
You land on a sortable table, one row per game, ordered by score. Each row packs in a thumbnail, a one-line teaser, genre tags, icons for the chains the game runs on, device icons, and a chart of the past week of score movement. The earnings-per-day column stays masked until you sign in1.
A game appears under Cardano when Cardano is one of the chains it is tagged with, so multi-chain titles sit alongside Cardano-only ones. And the heading reads "Top 50" no matter how many games the filter returns, because that phrase is a fixed template rather than a count1.
The rest of the site runs past the directory: a news desk publishing several articles a day3, a rewards and points programme, and the awards event4. An Android app carries the same catalogue6, and support goes through a separate help centre. Other outlets have built Cardano game round-ups straight from this ranking7. The Cardano Developer Portal showcase also lists Cardano games, and Adastack's games listings cover individual titles.
