Months after its planned second season debut, smash hit Telegram game Hamster Kombat is finally back in action with a relaunched gameplay experience—but its token only fell further Tuesday, reaching a new all-time low price.
HMSTR, which runs on The Open Network (TON), dropped as low as $0.001461 on Tuesday, per data from CoinGecko, marking its lowest price to date. Up slightly to a current price of $0.0015`, HMSTR is down nearly 7% on the day.
The coin has plummeted 79% from its all-time high price set back at the launch in September 2024.
Interlude is over – long live HamsterVerse! 🚀
Season 2 isn’t just a game — it’s a whole new level. The crystals you stacked during the interlude will now unlock valuable rewards across all projects in Season 2.
Hamster Kombat attracted more than 300 million players last year as the Telegram tap-to-earn phenomenon started to permeate the mainstream. However, the hype collapsed once the token debuted.
Around 130 million players were eligible for the token airdrop, and many complained of receiving "dust" from the token claim because the allocations were smaller than expected. Now, the Telegram mini app shows only about 12 million monthly players, down dramatically from last year's peak.
On Thursday, the Telegram-based tap-to-earn game Hamster Kombat conducted its long-awaited airdrop, showering its users in HMSTR tokens. But whether players will continue tapping after that is an open question, with some users vocalizing disappointment online with their reward for months of touchscreen tapping.
Out of the 300 million users who have played Hamster Kombat since late March, Hamster Kombat said that 131 million players qualified for the distribution—with another 2.3 million users cu...
Season 2 of the game was supposed to debut just a couple weeks after the token dropped, but was delayed multiple times. Late last year, the anonymous development team said that it would instead launch a "HamsterVerse" of connected games instead of just the next season that was previously teased.
HamsterVerse has arrived, led by Hamster Kombat: GameDev Hero—the experience previously teased as Season 2. It maintains some of the tap-to-earn elements as before, but now you're building a team of developers and cranking out games, all of which helps boost your earnings.
Screenshots from Hamster Kombat: GameDev Heroes. Image: Decrypt
Another game, a simple combat experience called Hamster Fight Club, is also available from the HamsterVerse mini app launcher on Telegram. Other games, Hamster Boost and Hamster King, are listed as being in closed beta testing.
Telegram-based game Hamster Kombat became a massive hit last year, reaching some 300 million players ahead of its The Open Network (TON) token launch in September.
Now, after a monthslong respite, the game has relaunched as HamsterVerse, a hub featuring multiple games—including what was originally teased as the game's Season 2 update, now called Hamster Kombat: GameDev Heroes. And it has some of the familiar elements from the original tap-to-earn sensation.
One of the fastest ways to earn in-gam...
The long-running "interlude" season of Hamster Kombat has ended, with players earning rewards for the next wave of HamsterVerse games based on how many diamonds they earned during that simplified season. The interlude season was only planned to last for a couple weeks, but ended up running for months due to delays for the next season.
All of the games are planned to offer HMSTR token rewards.
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