September is arriving with unusual momentum, so we've sorted the top games for you: five play to earn games making big moves right now, from spell-slinging chess to the browser MMO currently leading the pack among blockchain games and crypto games.

 

5. Anichess

Anichess is a free-to-play chess variant from Animoca Brands, built with Chess.com and world champion Magnus Carlsen, playable in the browser and on Android, iOS, and Windows while the game works through a migration back to Base. There is no checkmate here: matches end when a player captures the enemy king outright in a move called a Kingslay, and players pick three spells before each match, with casting paced by a mana system. Modes range from ranked Standard play to Checkmate Arena and winner-takes-all Gambit matches. On August 25, 2026, Anichess opened an opt-in migration moving M8 points onto Base, the first step in bringing the whole game back to that chain through September.

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4. Guild of Guardians

Guild of Guardians is a free-to-play action fantasy RPG on Immutable, live on iOS and Android, where players assemble squads of heroes called Guardians and push them through progressively harder dungeon stages with roguelite-style combat. Guilds carry the social side through seasonal content, leaderboards, and recurring events. The headline is Guild of Guardians Dungeons, a new idle loot RPG that runs straight in a web browser: pick a class, choose a starting hero, and let your Guardian auto-battle through stages even while you are away. Dungeons opened Early Access on the Vanguard Server on August 26, 2026, with nothing to install and NFT holders able to link assets for bonus stats.

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3. Nine Chronicles

Nine Chronicles is a fantasy MMORPG from Korean studio Planetarium that runs on its own chains, Odin and Heimdall, with a bridge to Ethereum, playable on PC through Steam and on mobile as Nine Chronicles M. The game is fully open source and community-run, powered by players and node operators rather than a company's servers. Progression flows through stage-based campaigns, World Boss raids, seasonal Arena PvP, and Adventure Boss, a rotating dungeon crawl that just received its largest rework yet. Update 200470 landed on August 26, 2026, rebuilding Adventure Boss around new Distorted Essence materials and weakening every monster in the game by roughly 20 percent until the next patch.

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2. Onchain Heroes

Onchain Heroes is a gaming universe on Abstract whose flagship, Maze of Gains, is a roguelite dungeon crawler running as an open playtest in the browser on desktop and mobile. Every run poses the same question: leave now with what you have, or push one floor deeper, a push-your-luck system the developers call the Greed mechanic. Weekly patches since July have added persistent upgrades, reworked combat effects, boosted-drop event weeks, and a new Legendary item tier, while the studio builds toward OCH World, a full successor on the horizon. The August 22, 2026 patch brought the Greed mechanic back, overhauled the Stash system, and smoothed out mobile performance.

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1. Kintara

Kintara is a free, browser-based isometric MMO on Solana that gets compared to RuneScape constantly. Players land in a persistent shared world split into distinct realms, from a central hub and peaceful gathering areas to an open wilderness where PvP is always on, and progress by training skills, gathering, fishing, cooking, crafting, and fighting bosses. The update pace since the May 22 launch has been relentless, with a desert biome, a mount-gilding ritual, and an August 11 fishing update, and around 20,540 players now log in monthly. On August 24, 2026, Kintara launched on the Solana dApp Store, opening the game to Solana Seeker phone owners.

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