– Maximizes user accessibility through direct onboarding within LINE Messenger’s MINI App Tab
– Integrates BORA DEEPS to deliver a differentiated gameplay experience for Japanese users
– Strengthens on-chain rewards and BORA token utility, establishing a virtuous ecosystem cycle
June 10, 2026 – METABORA GAMES (CEO Choi Se-hoon), a leading blockchain game developer, announced today the official launch of ‘Puzzle & Guardians’, its joint project with Baligames, as a MINI App on LINE Messenger in Japan through LINE NEXT Start, a group company of LY Corporation that operates Japanese Web3 business.
‘Puzzle & Guardians’ is a hybrid Web3 title that blends casual 3-match puzzle battles with RPG progression. Players can collect and build a roster of Guardians, engage in 1v1 PvP duels and dungeon play, and earn BORA token rewards by completing in-game missions and participating in event leagues.
This design allows the game to speak to two audiences at once. Casual players can jump straight into the familiar, easy-to-learn match-three loop, while the Guardian collection and team-building systems add a layer of strategic depth for those seeking long-term progression. Competitive users can test their rosters in 1v1 PvP duels, and dungeon content provides a steady growth path for players who prefer to advance at their own pace. Missions and event leagues, meanwhile, give every session a tangible goal by tying gameplay directly to BORA token rewards.
With this launch, ‘Puzzle & Guardians’ is now onboarded onto the MINI App platform of LINE, Japan’s largest messenger platform, enabling more than 100 million LINE users to play the game instantly inside the LINE Messenger app without any additional installation. The result is a more intuitive, highly accessible play environment.
For blockchain games in particular, accessibility has long been the single biggest barrier to mainstream adoption: separate downloads, unfamiliar onboarding steps, and standalone apps have kept many casual players at a distance. By meeting users inside a messenger they already open every day, ‘Puzzle & Guardians’ removes much of that friction and gains a route to mainstream audiences at a scale that few Web3 titles have been able to approach.
The launch also underscores the strategic weight of the Japanese market. Japan is one of the world’s largest and most engaged mobile gaming markets, and puzzle and RPG genres — the two pillars on which ‘Puzzle & Guardians’ is built — command a particularly loyal player base in the country. Partnering with LINE NEXT Start, which operates Web3 business in Japan, gives the title both local market expertise and a trusted distribution channel from day one, within a service that already functions as daily infrastructure for millions of Japanese users.
In conjunction with the Japan launch, METABORA GAMES has integrated ‘Puzzle & Guardians’ with BORA DEEPS, the core infrastructure service of the BORA ecosystem. Through the BORA DEEPS Quest function, players are offered tailored missions optimized for gameplay, and the rewards they earn can be used across BORA DEEPS’ native content — including its ‘Mini Game’ offering and ‘Scratch’, a raffle-style service. The integration creates a natural virtuous cycle of play and reward, deepening user engagement across the platform.
The company also plans to continuously expand localized content tailored to the Japanese market, delivering a differentiated participation experience for local users. Launch commemoration events will follow, further reinforcing real-world utility for the BORA token.
The Japan launch likewise marks a meaningful step in METABORA GAMES’ broader global strategy. Centered on BORA DEEPS — a platform that organically connects in-game activities with rewards — the company has been designing user-participation-driven structures and co-developing Web3 projects with global partners across a wide range of genres. ‘Puzzle & Guardians’ is expected to serve as a key reference case for bringing that model onto mainstream messenger platforms.
More information about ‘Puzzle & Guardians’ is available on the official BORA DEEPS channels and the LINE platform.
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BORA DEEPS website: https://intro.boradeeps.com/
‘Puzzle & Guardians’ LINE Mini App URL: https://miniapp.line.me/2008992531-yxrGfhQ
☞ About METABORA GAMES
METABORA GAMES is a subsidiary of METABORA, a casual and blockchain game developer, and serves as the development studio behind the blockchain platform BORA.
Centered on BORA DEEPS — a platform that organically connects in-game activities with rewards — METABORA GAMES designs user-participation-driven structures and collaborates with global partners to co-develop and operate Web3 projects across a wide range of genres.
