This is great, I've been following mostly for your truth and science articles with my other account Hive account@autobodhi.. I didn't realize you were into blockchain gaming as well. This is my gaming account. I started getting into gaming because of Splinterlands and the idea of making money gaming, mostly because I've been on the road outside of my home country without a way of making an income. After being in the space for a few years though I've grow quite passionate about it.

Exode is definitely the game I've been most excited about and invested in but I've been playing a lot of different games while waiting for it to drop. most of the one you've mentioned (except upland, I need to try that one out.) as well as a few more. Tower Defense Heroes by Animoca is switching to blockchain based and in the process if you meet certain requirements each month they will be sending out rewards in their new tower token. (animoca is also behind the Sandbox).

Some other really exciting games that are in the works are Star Atlas (on Solana) Illuvium (I believe on Immutable) and Parallel. The first 2 are AAA games scheduled to be released in the next year, the third is a card game and the art is amazing.

Lately I've also picked up Strainz, which is a gamified NFT/DEFI Farming thing with pretty good passive returns so far. (MOMO is another one but much more complex as well as more polished) Both on BSC so the fees are minimal.

Also Vulcan Forged has some really cool stuff going on building an ecosystem of games. I've been playing Berserk pretty regularly on that platform.