Hamster Kombat Season 2 lets players become CEOs, build game studios

Hamster Kombat, the viral Telegram clicker game, revealed it will let players take on the role of company owners in its new storyline for the game’s second season.

In the new trailer, Hamster Kombat announced that in Season 2, users will play as CEOs of their own businesses. “Now, you are the CEO of a game dev studio,” the trailer said. Season one saw Hamster CEOs take charge of managing a cryptocurrency exchange.

In an announcement sent to Cointelegraph, Hamster Kombat said players will have new objectives, including hiring employees and producing gaming hits, with the end goal of building a gaming platform.

The trailer also confirmed that clicker elements would remain in the game, reassuring players that it wasn’t over. “Did you really think that was it? No way,” the trailer teased.

Hamster Kombat’s plans for 2025

On Sept. 25, Hamster Kombat released its road map for the rest of 2024 and into 2025. The team previously told Cointelegraph that future plans include integrating payment systems, launching new games and adding non-fungible tokens as in-game assets. 

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The Hamster Kombat team said it plans to focus on the value proposition within games, not just earnings. The team told Cointelegraph: 

“This approach is different from the traditional one, where Web3 developers are paying airdrop hunters.”

However, the clicker game added that it would still have rewards for its gamers. Hamster Kombat said the value of its upcoming airdrop rewards could be “comparable to the initial unlock” as the project develops rapidly. 

The game also plans to implement token buybacks using advertising revenue and allocate tokens for burning. 

The rise of Hamster Kombat

Hamster Kombat is one of the few Web3 games to quickly onboard millions of players through Telegram. The clicker game went viral after its first release, with 239 million users signing up in 81 days. Since then, it has surpassed 300 million players. 

While Hamster Kombat grew in terms of users, the project’s token plummeted during its debut. On Sept. 26, the project officially announced that token trading had started. Following the news, the HMSTR token dropped by 10% within an hour, according to CoinGecko. 

In the first 24 hours of trading, the price dropped from $0.012 to $0.0087, a 30% decline. At the time of writing, the token price is roughly $0.0038, a 68% drop since launching.

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