Review: Splinterlands
Business score: 5/5
Branding
Splinterlands offers users the ability to earn cryptocurrencies by playing games, trading, and many other features. It has a higher quality than many blockchain games because it cares a lot about its users' infrastructure systems, the game's producers and the game's project budget are very high and it has many supporters.
The company has been founded in 2018 with its headquarters in the USA. Splinterlands is a rebrand of Steem Monsters. This happened when they decided to introduce the game to the blockchain world.
Team
Splinterlands has been founded by Matthew Rosen, the current CPO of the company, and Dr. Jesse Reich. They have been partners in different projects since 2014. This shows us a strong bond in the company core team showing us a great perspective for the future if they keep working together on this project. With a combined experience of over 15 years and a team of 35 people according to their LinkedIn company page, mostly from residents of the United States of America.
Road Map
Currently, they don't have a road map for the future, but looking at the past of Splinterlands, we can see that the team behind it has reached each milestone that they set. It gives us confidence that what they will decide to implement and update in the future, the team is professional and ready to take the obstacles and keep their promise.
Technical score: 5/5
Product
Splinterlands is a decentralized, digital collectible trading card game built on blockchain technology. This card game is similar to Hearthstone but you can earn crypto that can be converted into real cash. You can get the cards from chests, by purchasing them or even renting them from the marketplace. There have been even over 500,000 active players in a week as they have declared in December.
Crypto-Related
The whole game is integrated into the blockchain world. The cards are NFTs that you can sell or rent on the Splinterlands marketplace. This is one of the methods how players can earn an income. The other method is by playing the game and competing In tournaments. There are two types of tokens that Splinterlands include.
Firstly the Splintershards (SPS) token works as a DAO on the Binance Smart Chain platform. The SPS token is a governance token that is integrated in the game, giving players the option to influence decisions about the game and the ecosystem. Then we have the Dark Energy Crystals (DEC) token, which is the in-game utility token or in other words, the game's own currency. Both of them have been on a steady growth.
Security
You can rest assured, Splinterlands is not a fraudulent website and all your funds are safe. The game is built on the Hive blockchain. Users automatically get an account on this blockchain when they purchase the Spellbook which costs 10$ and without it, you can not play the game but don't worry, it is a one-time fee. The Hive blockchain supports decentralized apps, games, and cryptocurrency wallets. The players can convert their Splinterlands cards into ERC-721 tokens and transfer them to other wallets or do whatever they want with them.
*For this review, we will not include any Pros or Cons. From a game perspective, we don't see any sensible cons or memorable pros that need to be exposed right now.*
*The review contains referral links and is based on our internal guide that you can read here: Internal Review Guide*