Axie Infinity is the most popular metaverse game in the world, with 3.4 million monthly searches, 2.2 million website visitors every month and the highest popularity score.The Sandbox is the second most popular metaverse game, with 483,000 monthly website visits and over one million Twitter followers. Decentraland ranks third place with 706,000 monthly website visitors.
Axie Infinity is crowned as the most popular metaverse in the world, with 3.4 million Google searches and 2.2 million website visitors every month – earning it the highest popularity score of any metaverse.
Gaming platform Solitaired looked at which gaming metaverse is the most popular across the world based on four factors to create its popularity index; the number of monthly Google searches it receives, the number of monthly website visitors, the number of articles written about it in the past year and the number of Twitter followers for each virtual world.
Axie Infinity ranks as the most popular metaverse game overall with a near perfect popularity score of 396 out of 400. The public search for Axie Infinity a staggering 3.4 million times every month and its website receives 2.2 million monthly visitors, more than any other metaverse game. The game, which requires users to use Ethereum to purchase Pokémon like monsters called Axies, allows you to battle against other Axies and earn crypto tokens while playing. In the past year alone, 45,645 articles have been written about Axie Infinity – an average of 125 articles every day.
The Sandbox ranks as the second most popular metaverse, scoring 166 out of 400 on the popularity index. The Sandbox game is searched 279,000 times every month on average and its website receives 447,000 visitors each month on average. Most notably, The Sandbox has the largest social following of any metaverse in the list, with 1,003,841 followers on Twitter, boosting its score and taking it into second place.
Decentraland ranked third overall, based on the four popularity factors scoring 145 out of 400. The 3D browser based metaverse receives a massive 705,000 visitors to its site each month, as well as 311,000 monthly searches. In the past year alone a staggering 19,720 articles have been written about the virtual world, maintaining an average of 54 articles a day.
Star Atlas ranks as the fourth most popular with 182,000 searches for the metaverse each month and 55,400 monthly website visitors.
Bloktopia ranks as the fifth most popular accruing 50,000 searches each month and 32,400 monthly website visitors.
A spokesperson for Solitaired commented on the findings: “While constructing a true metaverse remains a somewhat ethereal concept at present, the huge uptake in people searching for ‘play-to-earn’ games suggests many are already eager to jump into a virtual second life.
“The broad appeal of many metaverse games comes from the financial benefit, users stand to gain. Some of the most popular metaverse games allow players to earn, buy and trade land or items using cryptocurrency, which incentivises players to sign up and remain invested in their virtual worlds, long into the future.”
The research was conducted by solitaired.com/spider-solitaire, a free, browser-based card game platform with more than 500 games available to play.
Most Popular Metaverse Games
| Rank | Metaverse | Monthly Website Visits | Monthly Google Searches | No. articles written about it in the past year | Twitter Account Followers | Popularity Score / 400 |
| 1 | Axie Infinity | 2,200,000 | 3,420,000 | 45,645 | 958,716 | 396 |
| 2 | The Sandbox | 483,000 | 279,000 | 16,173 | 1,003,841 | 166 |
| 3 | Decentraland | 706,000 | 311,000 | 19,360 | 618,131 | 145 |
| 4 | Star Atlas | 55,400 | 182,000 | 2,799 | 315,370 | 45 |
| 5 | Bloktopia | 32,400 | 50,000 | 1,511 | 367,320 | 43 |
| 6 | Illuvium | 57,500 | 153,000 | 2,409 | 296,944 | 42 |
| 7 | Metahero | 45,600 | 106,000 | 5,516 | 232,233 | 40 |
| 8 | Zepeto | 120,000 | 461,000 | 6,258 | 46,760 | 37 |
| 9 | My Neighbor Alice | 29,600 | 45,000 | 481 | 180,441 | 22 |
| 10 | Hyperverse | 226,000 | 76,000 | 1,759 | 19,148 | 18 |
| 11 | Farmers World | 21,900 | 27,000 | 744 | 115,585 | 15 |
| 12 | Cryptovoxels | 6,300 | 13,000 | 748 | 81,782 | 10 |
| 13 | Horizon Worlds | 23,000 | 42,000 | 1,893 | 11,022 | 8 |
| 14 | Somnium Space | 4,600 | 8,700 | 748 | 37,700 | 6 |
| 15 | Prospectors | 3,100 | 12,000 | 833 | 9,600 | 3 |
Further information can be found at https://www.solitaired.com/spider-solitaire
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