It’s been quite a few years since I’ve done anything on the Enjin blockchain. They have changed a bit. They are also a blockchain focused on gaming. It was only a matter of time before I wanted to see what was up once again.

I’m also a sucker for a blockchain with a bunch of games all partaking in a single event. I’m rather sad I’ve been missing out on a bunch of multiverse seasons on Enjin. The season of the wind, however, seems like the perfect time to make a return.

There are 8 games you can play where you can earn up to 180 essence each. Some of these games are horrible; I’d never go near them again. Some I’ve played before, and I even had some assets that got miraged over back when Enjin was on ETH instead of being its own chain. Ah, the glory days when NFTs used to be insane amounts. Then you had the remaining ones I’ve never played before.

Mostly if you get enough essence or end up ranking high enough by the end of the event. You are just earning some blobs. Perhaps the rarer ones will be worth a bit. For the most part, they just look like a fun collectable. Maybe they will sell for a couple of Enjin, but since that is under 3 cents. It’s more about the fun of it than anything else.

So far I’ve played Enj Excavators, Into The Multiverse (lame), Enjium, Sprit Clicker, Etherscape, and Lost Relics. Some of these are new to me, and others I happened to already have a head start with some stuff.

There are two I have not gotten around to as of yet. Misfit Galaxy, which I did play quite a long time ago and did not care for. They also ended up adding a pirate game called Captains and Company to the event, as it’s ongoing as well.

The cool thing is some of these games are on the Epic Game stores. Others seem to be hoping to one day get onto Steam, with even having placeholders over there. Steam, however, has been quite hostile to blockchain games in the past, so who knows if ever such things will happen.

Getting onto a large store like Epic Games is also a massive deal for blockchain gaming in general. It can get a game and even ideas like play-to-earn quite a lot of attention. As after all, there are a lot of gamers that use places like Epic Games every day.

I also wanted to check in on some other games that are not on the list. At least one other game. That is also where issues start on this little adventure. Many games on Enjin always had “mint” fees. They were usually so high in what you needed to grind in game that you only go though such struggles for a high valued item.

The Fail

The Six Dragons was one of the blockchain games I ended up returning to check out. While they were not on the event list. Anyone who knows me knows I just love running dungeons. Sadly, they don’t love me back.

I never minted anything in The Six Dragons, and they could only find my “web account”, which is not the same as your game account that I had a character on. So I had to start a fresh character with nothing.

It’s also quite clear why they were not on the event list. Outside of having to start over. Along with it seeming like they nerfed portal spawns to use keys to enter into dungeons. So I was running around forever just to find the correct portals to start dungeons with. It also seemed like nothing changed in the over 5 years, or however long a break I’ve taken from Enjin.

While not all blockchain games on Enjin require you to mint items to trade. You more or less need to do so in The Six Dragons. So it also makes it really easy to see on the main market page. That about nothing is going on trading-wise in this game. Even more so when you realize it’s just the same couple of blockchain address even doing anything. Along with the fact that many people are just “melting” items to get what ever Enjin base value the item even has from it.

While I had some fun running around again in The Six Dragons. It just looks as outdated as ever. Along with seeming dead, and the market seems to share that insight. I’m also still not happy about losing my character and his levels.

The Idles

Now back to the Wind Season multiverse quest at hand. You have what I’m going to call your idle or mostly idle games on the list. These include: Enj Excacators, Enjium, and Spirit Clicker. While I’ve played all three, I, in fact, don’t have any essence earned in one of them.

What should have been the easiest of the three, Enj Excavators, was anything but. It’s a game on mobile, and it’s just a simple ideal clicker game. They have weekly resets and you earn essence every week if you meet certain requires of just buying one of each of the top goblins.

If you did not know, the Enjin wallet itself is a mobile only wallet. Most things on the Enjin blockchain you are just using your phone to scan QR codes and then approving the transaction as a way to sign things. From minting to linking your account to games.

That's not how they did things over at Enj Excavators. I had to manually put in my account address. I thought things were all good, and I spammed tapped the screen a bit before returning to just buy with the gems earned from automations.

I met the requirements to earn some essence for the week and moved on. After the week was over, I noticed I still had zero essence for the multiverse quest for the game. After many attempts at trying to add wallet address from within the game, it says “already in use”, I almost gave up.

I then went to the games main website, where I had to enter my wallet address. They also had this big old thing about earning crypto from a bunch of different games. Along with KYC being required. Ya, I noped out of these quickly.

At least the good news is that it now has my wallet address. I got credit even from prior weeks. After seeing all the KYC stuff, however. I have little desire to go do anything with any of that.

As far as Enjium and Spirit Clicker go. Enjium is a very laggy web browser town-building game where you can mostly just idle. It’s however, so laggy unless you top of the leaderboard. The only NFT’s you are getting there are ones you bought from the developers yourself. So I stayed long enough to earn some essence and decided I had enough of that.

Enjium also had a season reset by the time I wanted to check back in on the game and get some screenshots of my progress. Needless to say, I’m starting to notice a trend about a few of these games and their desire to have a season reset.

Spirit Clicker is another idle clicker game. I also have zero essence from that and don’t plan on getting any. Despite being in the top player positions now. You seem to only get credit for kills for the multiverse quest if you leave the game running in the background for days or weeks on end. That is stupid, and I just don’t trust that.

The only interesting part about this game is that they do reward active gameplay. As a lot of times you have to move the mouse to “slice” or rotate to break a barrier placed on a creature that is meant to slow down non-active players.

I Could Not Run Away Fast Enough

Next up was Into The Multiverse. If you told AI it only had 10 minutes to make you two shitty games, with one being a garden-growing game and the other being a running parkour game. Where you have to switch back and forth between the two to earn tokens in one to buy plants to grow in the other. Well, that’s what you get.

Needless to say, I was not looking to spend 100 hours dealing with that nonsense. Just for some essence for the multiverse quest. I think I wasted five hours of my life on this one, and I’ll never get that time back.

Final Thoughts

I know what you are thinking. What about Etherscape and Lost Relics? Along with anything else I’ve not played much yet? Well, those deserve their own posts. I can say I had a blast in the ARPGs Etherscape and Lost Relics. I even made a little bit of Enjin in them as well. Which really can’t be said for anything else I played around with on the Enjin blockchain itself.

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Content was written and screenshots taken by @Enjar.