Blast Wheels says it has been “putting in the work.” The first proof it shared is a new main menu.
On October 7, 2026, the team behind Blast Wheels, a play-to-earn racing game on the Sui blockchain, started a weekly series called “What’s Under the Hood Wednesday?” The studio promises unreleased updates, before-and-after comparisons, and behind-the-scenes previews. The first entry is a redesigned main menu. But nothing in it is live yet, and the post doesn’t say when it will be.
A Short Bounce in a Long Slide
The bigger story is the game’s token, WHEELS. Over the past 90 days, it has lost 45.3% of its value. Other gaming tokens gained 12.2% over the same time. Over six months, the gap is even wider: WHEELS is down 77.2%, while the sector is up 20.9%.
There is one bright spot. Over the last month, WHEELS rose 26.4%, a bit better than the 16.5% gain for other gaming tokens. But a one-month bounce doesn’t undo a six-month drop. In the last 30 days, WHEELS traded between $0.0000119 and $0.000019, so the top of that range was about 60% above the bottom. In the day after the announcement, WHEELS slipped 0.9% while gaming tokens rose 2%. The menu reveal did nothing for the price.
The token’s size matters too. The game’s listing gives WHEELS a supply of 1 billion tokens. If that’s right, the whole supply was worth somewhere between about $12,000 and $19,000 at those prices. For a game that pays its racers in WHEELS, that is a very thin base for rewards.
A New Coat of Paint, but Fewer Buttons
The old menu in the post is bright and flat, with orange stripes and a silver sports car. It has big colored buttons for Garage, Single Player, and Multiplayer (misspelled “Mutli Player”), a small Leaderboard card in the top right, and a green Race button.
The new menu is dark and moody. A black sports car with blue headlights sits inside rings of glowing orange light. The Blast Wheels logo moves to the top left, above three round icons: Garage, Shop, and Leaderboard. A large orange Race button stays in the bottom right.
On the surface, it’s a big upgrade. But there’s a catch. Single Player and Multiplayer are gone from the menu, and a Shop has taken their place. The post doesn’t explain where those modes went or what the Shop will sell. In a play-to-earn game, a new store raises fair questions about what players will be asked to buy and whether it will be paid for in WHEELS.
Haven’t We Heard This Before?
This isn’t the first time Blast Wheels has promised more to come. On April 1, 2026, the team announced the Nitro Liquidity Program. It asked holders to add their WHEELS to a pool on Bluefin, a Sui trading platform, in return for tickets to daily WHEELS jackpot draws. The next day, the team said fans had voted for a Free Roam mode over a Storyline mode for Blast Wheels Story Mode. The vote was close: 62 to 59, from just 121 votes.
Since then, the token has kept falling, and the new post doesn’t mention Free Roam or the Nitro program. Six months after that vote, a new menu is a modest thing to lead with. When will players see the bigger features they were asked to choose?
The Game Looks Fun, but Players Are Hard to Find
To be fair, the game itself has a clear look. Blast Wheels uses a simple, low-poly 3D style, a bit like a toy version of Mario Kart. The cars are chunky and easy to tell apart, and bright red borders keep the twisting tracks easy to follow. It’s also much plainer than the glossy new menu art, so it’s fair to wait and see whether the finished menu really looks like the preview.
What players think is harder to say. There were too few comments to judge, well short of the 15 we treat as the minimum for a fair read. That doesn’t mean players dislike the game. But for a game asking for attention, a lack of feedback is worth noting. One good sign is that the video comments that do exist look real, with no clear signs of spam or fake hype.
Is the Hype as Real as It Looks?
The announcement drew 16 likes, 7 reposts, and 6 replies from 254 views, on an account with just 1,218 followers. The replies were upbeat. One fan wrote, “What an update looks so good.” Another said they can’t wait for it to be on the App Store. But two of the most upbeat replies came from the same account, whose bio says it builds gaming communities and hosts Spaces. That doesn’t make the praise fake, but it isn’t a sign of wide excitement either. The App Store hope is also odd, since the game is listed as a browser game.
Other numbers are small, too. The game’s YouTube channel has 74,230 total views, which puts it 259th of the 654 games we track. When our game database last checked the project in April, its Telegram channel had only two posts and its Discord invite link had expired.
The Bottom Line
Blast Wheels’ new menu looks sharper than the old one, and a weekly preview series is a reasonable way to show progress. But none of it has shipped, two game modes have vanished from the menu without explanation, the WHEELS token has lost most of its value over six months, and the community around the game looks very small. Until the team ships the features it has already promised, anyone watching this project should stay cautious.
