The alluring opportunity to earn real-time rewards while playing games made blockchain games popular, where players can play games similar to traditional video games and make an earning out of them. If you are a blockchain game enthusiast, one game you shouldn’t miss playing is Stratagems, where you can build the landscape of a dynamic game map to earn Ethereum coins. Utilizing the Base blockchain to secure player moves and game plans, this on-chain strategic game is winning players’ hearts. The game is now available on in Alpha in Base chain.
Stratagems: Overview
Stratagems is a blockchain-based strategy game running on the Base blockchain, where players act as gods to create the landscape of a dynamic world. The game takes place in a vast sea, with many islands created and maintained by the players. To build new lands, players stake Ethereum and determine their ruling area, the neighboring lands try to gain control of the land through battles, and the winner of the battle gains the Ethereum staked on the losing lands.
Stratagems: Game Features
In Stratagems, players can create land by staking Ethereum, they can choose which territory they will govern, it’s the player’s strategical gameplay that determines the development of a dynamic world map. Let’s look at the game features of Stratagems that make it worth playing.
Two-Phase Mechanics
Stratagem’s daily cycle is divided into two phases, out of the 24 hours, 23 hours is the ‘commit phase’ in which players can apply strategies, make actions, and other necessary changes if required. On the completion of the commit phase, a new phase begins called the ‘reveal phase’. The reveal phase lasts for one hour and within the timeline, all actions are revealed and settled. This phase is an important part of the game, as it ensures the strategies of all players are affected in the game at the same time.
Social Interaction and Collaboration
Stratagems encourage players to communicate with other players and if required form collaborations. By making effective alliances, players can get to know the strategies of other players and gain significant advantages in gameplay. Though this social interaction enhances the game tactics, the need for trusting and collaborating with other players adds to the complexity of the gameplay.
Secure Gameplay
The game operates on the Base blockchain, where every movements and actions are secured transparently and immutably. Though the transactions can be viewed by other participants, they can’t make any changes to them.
Stratagems: How to Play?
Stratagems game is now in the Alpha testing phase and players can participate in the game through the official Stratagems website. Operating on the Base blockchain, players have to use specific tokens that can be accessed through the game’s Discord channel. Now, let’s see how the game is played.
In Stratagems players have to work together to create a 2D world by placing land inhabited by one of the six battling groups. A player can only make one turn in a day by staking ETH, if playing in the free-to-play mode you can use Test tokens instead of ETH. The number of tokens staked depends on the number of tiles you place in your turn, the higher the land tiles you wish to place, the higher the tokens you should stake.
Player’s turns are referred to as ‘epochs’ and an epoch includes two phases: the commit phase, and the reveal phase. In the 23-hour lasting commit phase, players get an opportunity to collaborate with other players and change their decisions if needed. In the reveal phase, which only lasts 1 hour, the moves of every player are revealed, before this phase no one including the developers can’t know what the moves players made, ensuring trust and maintaining excitement throughout the game.
It is important to ensure that no stakes are placed in the same spot. If you stake on the same spot, a 6th faction, a faction that is not owned by any player will pop up, and players have to attack it to gain back their ETH or Test tokens deposited. Each land tile that has no neighboring land gets 2 lives (represented as houses). Lives increase after every epoch, and if opposing factions come adjacent to each other, they will start fighting. The fight continues until all their lives are lost. The player who controls more lands that are fought gets the deposited ETH.
Bottom Line
The Stratagems leverages blockchain technology to offer players a seamless gaming experience where they can get entertained while earning real stakes. The game encourages team play while ensuring security and transparency. However, being an on-chain game, every move you make involves an ETH transaction which requires a gas fee. To enjoy the game without hassle, you must ensure a certain amount of ETH is available in your wallet before beginning the gameplay.