There has been a slow down with crypto mining in recent years due to the environmental impacts it causes and the growing discomfort of people around cryptocurrencies driven by the rise of crypto scams. Not to mention, it also costs more energy to mine coins now than what you get so it’s not really effective in regards to taking in profit. However, with several improvements to not just crypto tech but its growing community of web3 developers, there has been growing interest in play-to-earn (P2E) games in the blockchain that offer a more fun approach to earning crypto and one of these projects is BombCrypto.

Gameplay

Taking on an old-school graphic approach, people are bound to feel nostalgia for the Bomberman-esque gameplay BombCrypto offers except there are more modes available. One of the first released playable versions of the game, Treasure Hunt mode, is like playing Bomberman but idly since you don’t really control your characters. The characters also have different rarities that determine the power of their bombs and the speed at which it mines around the map.

Treasure chests of different tiers are scattered around the map and the characters you play (called heroes) will idly move until their energy is spent. The way you mint these heroes is by purchasing them inside the game’s own marketplace where players can sell their previously minted heroes for the in-game token BCOIN. 

Other things to mind when looking at these heroes are their abilities. A few examples are abilities that help them mine faster with stronger bombs, move faster, go through obstacles to reach chests easier, and have a chance to drop bombs without using the hero's energy. Higher rarity heroes tend to have one already when you mint them while common/lower tier heroes need to be upgraded to have just a chance of acquiring an ability. 

Some other game modes include Battle which is the PVP mode of the game, Amazon Survival, and Adventure mode which takes 15 heroes to be able to play.

Tokenomics

BombCrypto uses BCOIN as its token with the maximum supply fixed at 100 million BCOIN. We can argue that the allocation for the coin is a little lucrative. Having 34% of the total allocation for the team, advisors, and the private sale. There’s also no lock period for the coin so people and investment firms can just buy and inflate the value of the coin and sell it whenever they please.

The value of the coin is the lowest it's ever been since its release in 2021 and it's far from recovering since the team already made a new BombCrypto and built it on Polygon instead so it’s on another network.

Overall Impression

I believe the game was actually fun when it first started in September 2021 as it offered a more relaxed way of earning than other P2E games around its release which required more strategy before you can earn. However, it fell off significantly during the first week of December. 

BombCrypto’s roadmap wasn’t followed closely since the developers were always trying to get patches in the game to nerf the return of investment people can receive while playing the game long-term. 

 A lot of players also left the game due to the somewhat chaotic community in the game’s Discord server where people would get banned for reasons hard to comprehend when they were just asking questions. The number of people who tried the game has also made it hard to actually contact support and get help when something goes wrong. (which is a lot of times). The BombCrypto team has now made a new game or rather a new version of BombCrypto called BombCrypto 2 and I think it’s better than its predecessor since the original has been mostly abandoned.

In conclusion, I think the game is a fun way to earn but since the coin’s value was messed up, it’s not a good game to earn crypto in 2022. There are better projects out there worth your money and effort. The game was a ticking (Crypto) time bomb and its time was up.