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Telegram tap-to-earn game Rocky Rabbit has just over a week left before its RabBitcoin (RBTC) token launches on The Open Network, and one of the key stops on the roadmap to the airdrop was just added to the game: the Battle mode.
Rocky Rabbit is a game built around imagery of beefy bunnies pumping iron and entering tournaments. But much like fellow Telegram game Hamster Kombat isn’t actually about fighting—it’s a crypto exchange simulator starring rodents—this “Battle” mode doesn’t actually feature any physical conflict at all.
Despite the colosseum-like artwork, Rocky Rabbit’s battle mode is a game of chance: You enter a betting pool, choose how many in-game coins you want to pay into it, and then watch the roulette wheel spin until it lands on a winner. If it's you, then you’ll bank some substantial multiple of the coins you bet. If not, then you’re out of luck. Try again.
And that’s it. There are three different venues that you can “battle” in alongside other players, each with a different range of possible bets: Arena (100K-1M coins), Citadel (1M-10M), and Siege (10M-1B). They’re functionally the same aside from the size of the wagers, however.
Given the vibe of the game, it’s a little surprising that this doesn’t look or feel like a combat experience. But it is very much in line with the rest of Rocky Rabbit, which like many Telegram games has superficial gameplay and is built entirely around menu taps.
Within that context, it makes sense. On the other hand, the promise of letting you earn by “teaming up, strategizing, and battling together” is simply misleading. At least in this current rendition, there’s no collaboration—and strategy is limited to deciding how much you’re willing to bet to improve your odds of a win.
Rocky Rabbit’s Battle mode just offers another way to potentially pile up—or lose—in-game coins before RBTC launches and rewards players with a share of on-chain tokens.
And the new Games menu in the app shows two other upcoming mini-games that have yet to launch, called RocQ and Magic Rabbit. But you’ll need a “Game Pass” to unlock the Battle mode, which is found by entering another player’s special code.
Why you’ll need this pass isn’t entirely clear, but worry not: It’s free, though you may need to hunt around to find a working code. Luckily, we were able to find one by searching Twitter and nabbing one shared by a random user—and you’re welcome to use our code in the screenshot above, assuming it still works.
Rocky Rabbit’s RBTC token is set to launch on TON on September 23, and the first wave of the airdrop is likely to arrive alongside, though that hasn’t been confirmed as of this writing. It’s part of a one-two-three punch of major Telegram game token drops on TON, with Catizen leading the charge on September 20 and Hamster Kombat following on September 26.