Champions Tactics - The Champions

Gaming giant Ubisoft, known for publishing generation-defining titles like Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry, will soon launch The Champions, a free mint for their upcoming NFT game Champions Tactics.

As the name suggests, these 3D Champion figurines will be the playable characters in this PVP turn-based strategy game.

Players can mix and match Champions with different stats and abilities to form teams and then battle other players online (like a Pokémon game battle). More info here.

I covered this project at the end of 2023 during the launch of their Warlords PFP, where I was critical of their engagement farming tactics and Ubisoft’s seeming lack of care for the project.

I still have those gripes (Ubisoft doesn’t tweet about the game), but this is a freebie from a team with resources, coming off the back of a gameplay trailer, with a closed beta starting next week. So it’s looking better.

The drop is on the Oasys blockchain (home to many other game studios), which would usually preclude it from our Top 25, but I’m making an executive exception in the name of crypto games.