Steem Monsters review — a fun and engaging blockchain game!

karl thompson
10 min readMay 5, 2019

Steem Monsters is a decentralised collectible trading card game built on the Steem blockchain, similar in concept to Magic the Gathering or Hearthstone, but because it’s based on blockchain technology, players can own and trade their cards without the role of any centralised authority,

It’s evolving all the time, is great fun to play and enjoys a lot support from one of the most active, friendly and dedicated communities on Steem.

The current market cap of Steem Monsters is $1.2 million, which is broadly level with November 2018. There are currently 1.6K daily active users, and it is one of the top DApps of 2019, being ranked 10th on State of the DApps.

NB Expect Steem Monsters to be rebranded as ‘Splinterlands’ sometime soon, following its expansion into the Tron blockchain.

I’ve been playing Steem Monsters for several months now, and this review draws on my experience of using the platform. Below I cover the following:

  1. How to get started with Steem Monsters
  2. The key components — the battles, the leagues, the market, and the tournaments.
  3. What I like about it (lots!)
  4. What could be improved (only a few things)
  5. Conclusions and a reminder of how…

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