Meet the Unfettered: Darksouls with NFT and P2E
After the sugary-bright and primitive P2E with a mechanic such as "swipe to win", sometimes we want to run a brutal action with blood, undead, and dungeons. But we also don't want to lose our tokens, NFT, land, and other profit sources.
The Unfettered calls in P2E true-gamers who have destroyed crowds of demons in Darksouls and God of War and are ready to face the challenges of a dark and gothic universe. Instead, the project promises a healthy Play to Earn without grinding. Let's look at it closer?
What is Unfettered
The Unfettered is positioned as an AA-level P2E storyline game that should be a bridge between the gaming and the blockchain industry.
Unfettered discovered that the two main problems of P2E - is an unsustainable tokenomics and poor gameplay. To fix it, the Unfettered developers decided to create a quality game first and then add blockchain, P2E, and Metaverse with lands.
The Unfettered is an Action RPG in the Darksouls spirit on Unreal Engine 4, with a plan to create 500 hours of storyline gameplay. We have some pretty good cinematic trailers that help understand the level of the project and see some gameplay elements:
You can find the pre-history of the game world in the Whitepaper. In short, the protagonist must end the Age of Gods and kill all the unpleasant creatures for that.
Activities
Play: Unfettered promises PvP, storyline, weekly quests, cooperative events, and other activities. By playing, you will get rewards in native tokens or NFTs. At the start, there will be available only a storyline. Developers add other game modes and activities later.
Buy land: Metaverse looks like the world map, divided into plots and battlegrounds. The player can buy land to open a shop on it and earn transaction fees. So after the dark gods killing, you have to learn how to do business.
Trade: Unfettered will run an internal marketplace for game NFT trading. The player will be able to earn money by selling quests or PvP-fights NFTs, including equipment, lands, and other items.
Stake: Players can use native tokens to receive passive income. Details of the staking are not yet available.
Unfettered is designed as Free-to-Play, meaning you don't have to buy an NFT character for several hundred dollars to play. But it seems that only the landowners will make a real profit, so we're waiting for the sale of lands.
Tokens and tokenomics
The game's economy is based on two types of tokens:
$SOULS - is an Unfettered utilitarian token. Team plans to launch $SOULS on the Binance smart chain.
- Buying In-Game Items
- Buying and selling in-game NFT on the in-game marketplace
- Game equipment repairing
- Participation in The Unfettered DAO to government
- Buying and selling NFT land in The Unfettered Metaverse
- Passive Income generation via staking.
Players will earn $SOULS by defeating non-player characters (NPCs) and other players. To win the fight, players will need powerful equipment. Thus, by investing in their characters' equipment, players will earn more $SOULS by defeating stronger opponents.
NFTs: lands, armor, weapons, and other items will register as NFTs in the Ethereum network. All NFTs are tradable for in-game and external marketplaces.
The Unfettered offers deflationary and stable tokenomics. Deflation is achieved by burning tokens for some in-game activities and sustainability based on the wide $SOULS in-game use.
Players can't just farm $SOULS and dump them on the exchange. To play the game, they have to spend earned tokens. That allows to control the market proposal and will not allow players to drop the price (or make the drop smooth).
Roadmap
The unfettered team presents a detailed and precise road map for 5 years. The game has been in development for 2 years, and the team has completed many tasks for now:
However, now the developers are behind schedule by about one quarter. According to the roadmap, developers already must hold the IDO and publish a gameplay demo on Steam (without a blockchain), but it is still not completed.
There is also a short roadmap:
$SOULS allocation and metrics
Team and Partners
The developers are experienced in creating projects on Unreal Engine 4 and Unity. The whole team of Unfettered with their social pages is presented on the website and includes more than 20 people:
Also, the project has already received $2.5M from Animoca Brands, BreederDAO, Morningstar Ventures, and many other foundations. You can see all the bakers here:
Unfettered has good advisors. Perhaps the most important strategic advisor is famous in the Turkish crypto-community ERKANG:
Strengths of Unfettered
Quality - let the project pretend only for 2 A, but it is much better than most of the current P2E. It has a strong concept, good graphics, exciting gameplay, and everything that should be in a quality game project.
Product demo - teasers and screenshots for now, but it's more than just concept art drawn by hand. Wait for the first gameplay trailer.
Deflationary tokenomics - Unfettered tokenomics model can solve the problem of inflationary gaming tokens that make a good profit at the start and then drop by a rapidly growing number of grinders.
Good social networks - 59.2K followers on Twitter and 24K on Discord. The active pre-IDO promotion has not yet started, so it looks not bad.
Team and bakers - more than 20 specialists work in Unfettered's team. Also, we see such heavyweights as Animoca Brand in the investor list. In addition, there are strong strategic partners.
Unfettered weakness
The team behind Roadmapp's for 1-2 quarters. On a 5-year scale, this is not much but still not good.
The blockchain integration is scheduled for the end of 2022, the game launch for 2023, and the metaverse launch in 2024. Without Metaverse, the utilitarian value of the native token drops.
The choice of Ethereum as a platform for mint and exchange NFT looks a bit strange if we look at network fees and transaction speed. However, before the Unfettered launch, Ethereum may migrate to PoS and become more affordable.
Conclusions
Unfettered makes you smile by looking at the evolution of P2E. Finally, we see the blockchain integrating into full-fledged gaming, not just casual smartphone tappers with bots and grinding. If Unfettered goes as planned, it's an absolute gem, at least for gamers. And if not, then no one is safe from the fail.
So make DYOR, follow all social networks, and wait for WL announcements, drops, and giveaways. It's not a pre-early stage, but the main promotion is still ahead, so there is a chance to go to Unfettered with a small investment.