Off the Grid is a free-to-play cyberpunk battle royale from Gunzilla Games, with up to 60 players per match on a fictional place called Teardrop Island. Its crypto side is optional: you can play without a wallet, and the blockchain only comes in if you want to trade certain in-game items on the GUNZ network. Below are the seven things worth knowing before you download it, including where the game stands as its planned October 2026 full release comes due.
Risk note: the GUN token and the tradable items in Off the Grid are speculative assets. GUN has lost most of its launch value, and in-game items can drop to zero. Nothing here is financial advice.
Off the Grid in short
| Made by | Gunzilla Games, a studio headquartered in Germany |
| Story | Written by Neill Blomkamp (director of District 9) and Richard K. Morgan |
| Genre | Third-person battle royale, Solos and Trios |
| Platforms | PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC (Steam and Epic), Mac and GeForce Now |
| Price | Free, with an optional OTG Pro subscription and paid content packs |
| Blockchain | GUNZ, an Avalanche L1, with the GUN token |
The studio, writers, engine and player count come from the Wikipedia article on the game. Platforms and the NFT position come from the official Off the Grid FAQ.
1. It is a shooter first
Most blockchain games start with a token and build a game around it. Off the Grid went the other way. It is a big Unreal Engine 5 shooter that happens to have an item marketplace on a blockchain, and the official FAQ says so plainly: it is “a battle royale game with an optional NFT element”.
Matches are third person. You drop onto Teardrop Island with a squad of three or alone, loot weapons, fight the other players and the AI, and try to be the last one standing. The hook is the cyberarm, a prosthetic that gives you abilities on top of your guns, which is where most of the build variety comes from.
If you have played Fortnite or Apex Legends, the basic loop will feel familiar within a match or two.
2. You do not need a wallet to play
You can download the game, create an account and play every mode without touching crypto. The blockchain layer matters only if you want to own, buy or sell certain items as tokens on GUNZ, or trade them on outside marketplaces such as OpenSea, which Gunzilla mentions in its 2026 roadmap.
That is also why the game could launch on Steam in July 2025. Valve’s rules ban games that use cryptocurrency or NFTs, and the Steam store page describes an in-game marketplace for trading items but never mentions NFTs or a blockchain. Which version of the marketplace you see depends on where you play.
3. GUNZ and the GUN token
GUNZ is the network Gunzilla built for the game. It runs as its own Avalanche L1, and both the network and its token, GUN, went live on 31 March 2025, as Decrypt reported at the time. GUN has a fixed supply of 10 billion tokens, and 400 million of them (4%) went to Binance Launchpool stakers at launch.
The token peaked on its first day. When we visited CoinGecko on 22 October 2026, GUN traded at about $0.0022, against an all-time high of $0.115 set on 31 March 2025. That is a fall of roughly 98%. About 3.8 billion tokens were in circulation, for a market cap near $8.5 million.
For a player, the takeaway is simple. GUN is the currency of the item economy, and its price tells you that buying items as an investment has been a losing bet so far.
4. The testnet to mainnet move took a long time
When GUNZ mainnet opened in March 2025, the game itself was still on a test network. Decrypt noted that testnet GUN balances would be wiped once players moved over, which caused some confusion among early players who thought they had been earning real tokens.
The migration dragged on. Gunzilla’s own roadmap, covered in a sponsored Game Informer piece from 29 May 2026, still listed “migration of remaining testnet users to mainnet” for September 2026, a year and a half after the network went live. If you played in 2024 and are coming back, check which balance and items carried over before assuming anything.
5. What changed in 2026
Off the Grid entered early access on 8 October 2024. The 2026 roadmap that Gunzilla published in May laid out a month-by-month plan towards a full release:
- June: performance work (Gunzilla promised a 50% to 80% frame rate uplift), weapon balance and squad features.
- July: the first Legendary Weapons, a rebuilt Marketplace 2.0, a new tutorial and proximity chat in matches.
- August: a clearer HUD and better combat feedback.
- September: an in-house anti-cheat on top of Easy Anti-Cheat, and the last testnet migration.
- October: exit from early access on the second anniversary, a bigger map with new biomes and a ranked reset.
Some of this had already started before the roadmap. A patch on 31 March 2026 cut time-to-kill by 30% for every weapon and added Legendary Weapons that appear once per match, according to games.gg’s coverage of the update. Players quickly said mid-range fights felt too forgiving, and Gunzilla said it would keep adjusting.
Keep in mind the roadmap is a plan written by the studio and published as paid content. We could not find an exact date for version 1.0 in Gunzilla’s channels, and when we visited the official FAQ on 22 October 2026 it still read “full release is planned for October 2026”.
6. What players think of it
Reception is split. When we visited the Steam page on 22 October 2026, it showed “Mixed” for all reviews, with 61% of 1,544 English reviews positive, and also “Mixed” for the last 30 days (57% of 69). That is a small review count for a free shooter that has been on Steam for over a year, which suggests the PC player base is modest.
The complaints in coverage of the game fall into two groups. One is about the shooting and balance, which the 2026 patches have tried to fix. The other is distrust of anything crypto, from players who do not want a token anywhere near their games. The second group will not be won over by a patch.
7. Hardware you need on PC
The Steam minimum is Windows 10 64-bit, an Intel i5 9400 or similar, 16 GB of RAM, a GeForce RTX 2060 and 28 GB of disk space. That is a fairly high floor for a free game. If your PC is below it, GeForce Now is an official option, and the console versions are free as well.
Is Off the Grid worth playing?
If you like battle royales and want to see what a big-budget web3 shooter looks like, yes, download it. It costs nothing, and you can ignore the blockchain completely.
If you are looking at it as a way to earn, we would not. The token is down about 98% from its launch price, the item economy has changed several times and the full release is only now due. Treat anything you buy as a cosmetic you would be happy to lose.
For games where the earning side is more central, see our ranking of the best play-to-earn crypto games. To understand why gaming studios build their own chains in the first place, our pieces on the BEAM gaming token and what web3 gaming means are a good next read.
