With the arrival of 2025, the Web3 gaming industry is brimming with optimism about the coming year. Industry executives and developers are forecasting a substantial rise in user engagement, with some suggesting monthly active users could reach 50 million. Ava Labs’ gaming leader, known as “Park,” anticipates a major Western gaming publisher either delving into Web3 gaming or acquiring a game in this sector.
Serge-Raymond Nzabandora of Yield Guild Games predicts that several games might reach 1 million daily active users, with some even exceeding 5 to 10 million. Specifically, he expects the battle royale game Off The Grid, built on the Avalanche blockchain, to surpass 1 million daily active users following its full launch and the introduction of the GUNZ token.
Nzabandora also credits the success of the game Pixels, which boasts over 1 million daily active users, as a promising indicator. He believes more traditional gaming firms will explore Web3, and advances in game development will push Web3 gaming to mature further. Immutable’s Tim Moore suggests that by 2025, Web3 gaming will integrate so fully that it will simply be seen as gaming.
In the dynamics of mobile gaming, Thomas Zaepffel from Coliseum anticipates a dominance shift, as mobile games take the industry by storm. In parallel, AIXBT, an AI chatbot, predicts only genuinely engaging Web3 games offering governance and player-owned assets will thrive, dismissing those reliant purely on token economics.
As part of this evolving landscape, Community Gaming is launching a new prediction platform called “Forkast,” allowing participants to make predictions about industry trends, earning cryptocurrency if successful. This platform debuts with a significant token allocation to incentivize community engagement.
Among Web3’s innovators, Yellow Panther is betting on AI’s role, launching Agent YP, an AI-focused gaming tool. He anticipates significant growth and integration of AI within gaming, forecasting the market cap for AI agents to exceed $100 billion, possibly placing a major AI gaming ecosystem among the top cryptocurrencies.
In additional developments, Web3 gaming ecosystem Planet Mojo unveiled “Emma,” an AI agent to assist in strategy planning, and Ubisoft introduced its new game, showcasing continuous collaboration across traditional and emerging gaming platforms, affirming the sector’s vibrant growth trajectory.
