Quick Take
- OTG hit with botting claims after suspicious SteamDB data and disconnected player spikes
- Community investigators found dozens of fake reviews from inactive accounts with no matches played
- Game previously launched on Epic with paid campaigns featuring Ninja, Shroud, Scump, and others
Off The Grid, a cyberpunk-themed shooter developed by Gunzilla Games and built on Avalanche, launched in 2024 through the Epic Games Store. Its rollout featured paid creator campaigns involving Ninja, Shroud, Scump, and TimTheTatman.
In the lead-up to its Steam release, the game received coverage from IGN and Kotaku. Dr Disrespect streamed gameplay during that same period. The Steam launch followed in 2025, bringing the title to a wider audience.
Shortly after the release, the Web3 gaming community began posting data that suggested irregularities in reported player activity. On July 22, during scheduled Steam maintenance, the concurrent player count for Off The Grid dropped from over 8,000 to under 400. The number remained static for several hours. Later that day, it increased by approximately 10,000 within ten minutes.
Visual data from SteamDB was published by user @UrbanCDN. These charts showed concurrency trends during and after the maintenance window. According to their posts, no other game in Steam’s top 300 showed a similar dip or recovery pattern during that timeframe.
A manual audit of the game’s 175 most recent Steam reviews was also posted by @UrbanCDN. Of the 131 positive reviews, 94 came from accounts with no recorded matches. Tracker.gg and public Steam profile data showed logged playtimes between 5 and 25 hours, but no in-game activity. Many of the accounts had identical ban dates, listed as 419 days prior to the review. The audit was compiled into a public spreadsheet including Steam IDs and timestamps.
In addition to the review and player data reports, some users posted that lobbies in the battle royale mode were frequently underfilled. Posts on X and in Discord groups described matches starting with fewer than 20 players. Others cited long queue times during peak hours.
While Off The Grid’s token ecosystem faces continued pressure, several other Web3 game projects have seen sharp gains during the same period. According to market data, WAGMI Games’ token climbed 115 percent in July. WEMIX, which is preparing the global release of ROM: Golden Age, rose 148 percent over the same span.
Both ecosystems saw the increases with limited paid marketing, while Off The Grid, which launched with major creator campaigns and a legacy media acquisition, has seen $GUN drop over 71 percent from its post-TGE peak.
The GUN token is currently trading at $0.029 and validator nodes reselling at a significant discount to mint price.
