‘Hamster Kombat’ Token Hits All-Time Low as Telegram Game Finally Returns

Months after its deliberate second season debut, smash hit Telegram sport Hamster Kombat is lastly again in motion with a relaunched gameplay expertise—however its token solely fell additional Tuesday, reaching a brand new all-time low value.

HMSTR, which runs on The Open Community (TON), dropped as little as $0.001461 on Tuesday, per knowledge from CoinGecko, marking its lowest value to this point. Up barely to a present value of $0.0015`, HMSTR is down practically 7% on the day.

The coin has plummeted 79% from its all-time excessive value set again on the launch in September 2024.

Hamster Kombat attracted greater than 300 million gamers final yr because the Telegram tap-to-earn phenomenon began to permeate the mainstream. Nonetheless, the hype collapsed as soon as the token debuted.

Round 130 million gamers have been eligible for the token airdrop, and lots of complained of receiving “mud” from the token declare as a result of the allocations have been smaller than anticipated. Now, the Telegram mini app reveals solely about 12 million month-to-month gamers, down dramatically from final yr’s peak.

Season 2 of the sport was alleged to debut only a couple weeks after the token dropped, however was delayed a number of occasions. Late final yr, the nameless growth workforce stated that it will as a substitute launch a “HamsterVerse” of linked video games as a substitute of simply the following season that was beforehand teased.

HamsterVerse has arrived, led by Hamster Kombat: GameDev Hero—the expertise beforehand teased as Season 2. It maintains a few of the tap-to-earn components as earlier than, however now you are constructing a workforce of builders and cranking out video games, all of which helps enhance your earnings.

One other sport, a easy fight expertise known as Hamster Struggle Membership, can also be obtainable from the HamsterVerse mini app launcher on Telegram. Different video games, Hamster Enhance and Hamster King, are listed as being in closed beta testing.

The long-running “interlude” season of Hamster Kombat has ended, with gamers incomes rewards for the following wave of HamsterVerse video games primarily based on what number of diamonds they earned throughout that simplified season. The interlude season was solely deliberate to final for a pair weeks, however ended up operating for months resulting from delays for the following season.

All the video games are deliberate to supply HMSTR token rewards.