Revolving Games
Web3 game developer building player-owned ecosystems
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About Revolving Games
Revolving Games is a blockchain game studio and publisher operating since 2020 with teams in San Francisco, Pakistan and Canada, building War of Nova, the Skyborne series and the Hatch titles and tying their economies together through the RCADE chain and node network: one asset set moves across games, node operators supply compute for game data and transactions while staking tokens, rewards split by playtime and skill, and the chain records ownership and settlement only.
Its approach is to ship a playable game first and add ownership after: War of Nova, a 4X strategy title built on alliance warfare, drives most revenue after launching on iOS and Android, Skyborne takes a social exploration route to lower the entry barrier, and Hatch carries casual players through light pet-raising loops. Customers are mobile strategy and idle-game players, and distribution leans on app stores and paid acquisition more than pure on-chain games do. The titles share one account and asset standard, so items earned in War of Nova can be redeemed in Skyborne and Hatch, and nodes split rewards by stake and uptime.
On 20 February 2026 Revolving Games issued a corporate announcement retiring its own RCADE layer-three network, with sequencers, RPC nodes and bridges decommissioned alongside it. The stated reasons were cost and risk: monthly cloud spending to keep the chain, nodes and bridge alive was hard to justify, and the company wanted a legal firewall around the parent. The business pulled back accordingly, with War of Nova converted into a conventional Web2 mobile game monetised only through App Store and Google Play purchases, leaving whether Skyborne Legacy keeps any onchain elements as the last measure of the studio's Web3 intent.
Revolving Games was founded in 2020 by the three Zaeem brothers, with teams in San Francisco and across Asia, and had been among the best funded in the category, raising more than $37 million from Animoca Brands, Pantera Capital, Polygon, Dapper Labs and Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser. War of Nova generated nearly $500,000 of player spending in its first 60 hours, the RCADE token was set for a 22 May TGE before being postponed twice into mid-June, and the team injected $250,000 of liquidity on Blur for its NFTs. The flaw was structural: node sales, NFTs and a token front-loaded three cash flows while validation of game quality and user scale was deferred, so when price and liquidity collapsed the incentive flywheel lost its engine. Industry databases now flag the studio as a defunct Web3 publisher.
Revolving Games plans to concentrate resources on mobile titles that can fund themselves, rebuild cash flow on Web2 in-app purchases and user acquisition, and only then consider returning onchain as a separate project. For ecosystem holders the pressing question is how tokens and node rights are handled after the chain shutdown, which requires a clear and executable wind-down plan.
Saad Zaeem — Co-founder & Co-CEO; previously founded game studio Caramel Tech Studios and cloud chat service Fizz.io.
Ammar Zaeem — Co-founder & Co-CEO; oversees global publishing and business.
Shayan Zaeem — Co-founder & President of Worldwide Studios; leads game development and art.