'Elemental Knights' Spinoff Leads New Games Coming to Immutable zkEVM

A trio of upcoming blockchain games—GensoKishi Online, Cursed Stone, and Sailwars—will be deployed on the Immutable zkEVM network, Immutable announced Thursday.

Immutable zkEVM is a gaming-centric Ethereum scaling network built using Polygon’s zkEVM technology, and is fully compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Scaling networks let games and other apps handle larger volumes of transactions with lower costs than Ethereum’s own mainnet.

GensoKishi Online, developed by Metap, is billed as a "metaverse-native reincarnation" of the popular Elemental Knights Online game, which launched in 2008 and has racked up more than 8 million downloads to date across platforms.

GensoKishi Online was previously planned to launch on the Polygon sidechain network. The game recently held a collaborative event with Symbiogenesis, the Polygon-based game from major publisher Square Enix, sending users on a Discord-based scavenger hunt that could earn them free NFTs.

Meanwhile, Cursed Stone is a 3D open-world massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that will allow players to own and trade dynamic NFT assets. An "innovative role system" will ensure that each NFT is unique, according to Immutable.

Finally, Sailwars is a Web3 game inspired both by naval skirmishes and fantasy epics like “The Lord of the Rings” and “A Song of Ice and Fire,” the developer claims. Players can convert their in-game items into NFTs to trade them on the open market, as well as earn tokens for playing across multiple game modes.

"It's inspiring to see more studios embracing Immutable to really level up their game," said Andrew Sorokovsky, VP of Global Business Development at Immutable.

Other games being built on Immutable zkEVM include Immutable’s own Shardbound, MetalCore, and Space Nation, a sci-fi game backed by film director Roland Emmerich (“Independence Day”). Immutable launched the zkEVM testnet in August ahead of the eventual full mainnet rollout.

Editor’s note: This article was written with the assistance of AI. Edited and fact-checked by Andrew Hayward.