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RollerCoin's RollerHouse of Horrors season will run from September 22 until November 2, with Halloween events starting on September 27. The Season Pass introduces SOLaire, the first hamster from The Night Shift Set, alongside four new miners and the Plague City expedition. A Hamster Gym for permanent hamster progression is also on the way. The Gold Pass costs 29.95 USDT and carries 2.5 EH/s of base power.

Moku launched Nomgar Clash on Ronin, a real time card battler that opens with a conversion tool aimed at holders sitting on NFTs from shut down games. The Forge accepts five collections including RagMon, Tribesters, TMA, Fishing Frenzy and Apeiron, burning them permanently in exchange for playable Nomgarmons. RagMon assets carry their rarity and level across, and roughly 150,000 of them qualify. Matches run three minutes on eight card decks, with ranked seasons paying out in bRON.

Sleepagotchi announced Gotchi Labs, a consumer AI platform that turns the sleep app into the first of several planned verticals. The SLEEP token is being renamed to CHI and repositioned as the access, rewards and commerce layer across the whole ecosystem. Health and Wellness goes live first, with Shopping and Commerce, Fitness and Exercise, Productivity and Daily Life and eventually Personal Finance to follow. The project has drawn 2 million all time users on its Telegram version and raised 6.5 million USD to date.

Chainers opened its Rise of Champions tournament on September 17, a four day competition that runs until September 21 at 12:00 UTC. Players farm repeatable tasks inside rooms of up to 50 competitors, unlocking limited edition Seeds and Aqualamps through progression while the top ten in each room fight for rarer loot. An Epic Aqualamp sits at the top of the board and cannot be earned any other way. Entry is free and matchmaking places players against others at a similar level.

Onchain Heroes launched Deed Season in Maze of Gains on September 17, an 11 day crossover with Yield Fields that puts 850 whitelist spots for the Deed mint on Robinhood Chain up for grabs. Players compete through a Silo leaderboard and two separate raffles by spending Golden Corn and World's Eve items. The same rollout opened the extraction roguelike to MetaMask, Rabby and Robinhood wallets and listed nine World's Eve items on the in game Marketplace. Corn farming stays open until the event locks on September 28.

Polygon does not get much attention, so most of the games that pay on it get missed. We ranked every one listed on our platform and kept the top five: a farming MMO reporting more than 700,000 players, a mining arcade that has paid out since 2017, a voxel world with 20,000 landowners, a mobile shooter in beta, and a browser MMO that built its own sidechain. Each pick gets its real mechanics, its items and tokens, and the update that shipped most recently, all checked against official sources. If you are sorting through play to earn games 2026 for the ones still alive on Polygon, this is the September list.

The Sandbox has opened its compensation claim process for holders affected by the August 22 bridge exploit. Anyone holding legitimately bridged SAND on Base or BNB Smart Chain before the incident is eligible for full 1:1 compensation in SAND on Ethereum. The claim window runs from September 8 to September 22, 2026 at 4 PM UTC, and requires a single transaction with no approvals or signatures. Exchange held balances are handled directly without user action.

Big Time is launching Big Time Rewards on Monday, September 14, 2026, distributing 10,000 USD in rewards every month. Players complete daily objectives to qualify and build toward larger prize pools across daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly tiers. Payouts come in Time Crystals and BIGTIME tokens. A new Rewards Leaderboard is live now on the official site.

How many crypto games can you actually open without spending a cent first? That was the only rule for this list: no purchase, no starter NFT, no deposit before the first screen loads. Five cleared it. Four run in a browser tab, one of those keeps playing while the tab is closed, and one is not a game at all but a rewards platform that pays out in cash and gift cards. The ranking follows our own PlayToEarn Score from lowest to highest, and every detail below was checked against each game's official source this month. Free to start is not the same as free money, so the payout still depends on your time and how you play. Treat this as the September checkpoint for anyone sorting play to earn games 2026 by what costs nothing to try.

Nike is now tradeable on Solana as a tokenized equity issued by Backpack Securities and listed through Sunrise. The token represents real shares held in custody and remains redeemable 1:1 for the underlying stock, trading around the clock rather than on market hours. Sunrise listings now total 40 tokens on Solana, with 14 tokenized stocks accounting for 1.5 billion USD in cumulative spot volume. The listing puts one of the largest consumer brands in the world onchain.