Brave Games: A reality-style heist built for the open Web

What happens when privacy, community, and play collide?

The answer is Brave Games, the first-ever reality-style vault heist competition designed to live on the Web and unfold in real time across X and the Brave ecosystem.

Kicking off in February 2026, Brave Games is a multi-week, community-powered experience bringing together Brave, Midnight Network, and Mythical Games. It’s also built in partnership with Fanon, a social gaming platform designed to power large-scale, community-led play across the open web. Together, these teams are exploring interactive, privacy-respecting ways for communities to engage online, through what Fanon aptly calls “the Internet’s game show.”

Brave Games is designed to be open to anyone. You don’t need gaming experience, a social media following, or deep technical knowledge to take part. If you’re curious, observant, and enjoy thinking strategically, you’re already qualified.

What is Brave Games?

Fanon, the social gaming platform powering Brave Games, describes it as being “built for the curious, the strategic, and the suspicious.”

Reality shows have taught us something universal: there are always more watchers than players. Millions of people love following along from the sidelines, convinced they would spot the traitor faster, make the smarter move, or call the outcome before anyone else.

Brave Games is built for that instinct, and for the itch to step inside the show.

Brave Games is part spy mission, part social experiment, and part strategy game. It presents a reality-style vault heist where players—whether community members, fans, or curious participants from across the Internet—choose a faction, form alliances, solve encrypted clues, bluff rivals, sabotage friends, and race to unlock a digital vault that very much does not want to be opened.

Over the course of multiple rounds, participants can engage in different ways. They can join the game directly and face difficult decisions, like whether to protect an ally or quietly work against them. Or they can follow the action closely, make predictions, and turn every well-timed “I knew it” into something tangible.

Over the course of the competition, players will:

• Join one of three competing factions: Brave, Midnight, or Mythical
• Complete missions and solve layered clues
• Navigate social strategy, shifting alliances, and surprise twists
• Watch for undercover “moles” embedded within teams
• Participate through prediction mechanics, social challenges, and timed events

The experience unfolds across the Brave browser, Fanon’s platform, and social channels like X and Discord, weaving together gameplay, community interaction, and themes of privacy, security, and digital defiance.

And yes, it’s free to play.

How to join Brave Games

Brave Games is played through the Brave browser, which is required to participate. The experience is designed to work across all major platforms, including Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android.

If you don’t already have Brave installed, you can download it for free at brave.com/download.

Pre-registration for Brave Games opens January 27, with team leads revealed and the first clues beginning to surface soon after.

How Brave Games came together through Rewards 3.0 and BAT

The Brave Games partnership with Fanon emerged through the Brave Rewards 3.0 Partner Program, where Brave works closely with partners to explore new ways the Basic Attention Token (BAT) can power real, engaging experiences across the Web and in everyday life.

What began as a Rewards Partner Program collaboration evolved into a fully gamified, community-driven campaign that blends Fanon’s social gaming infrastructure with Brave’s focus on user-first design and transparent incentives. Brave Games is one example of how BAT-powered partnerships can grow into interactive, accessible, and community-led experiences.

Since launching in 2017, BAT and Brave Rewards have grown into a widely adopted ecosystem, with over 99% of BAT in circulation, more than 1.5 million verified creators accepting BAT, and hundreds of advertiser campaigns leveraging Brave Ads.

Fanon builds and hosts the game experience, while Brave leads brand direction, community coordination, and ecosystem collaboration.

Why this collaboration matters

Brave Games is about experimenting openly with new models of engagement that respect users by design. Each core partner brings something distinct:

• Brave’s privacy-first browser, search engine, and wallet, available to over 107 million monthly active users
• Midnight’s work on regulation-friendly, data-protecting applications powered by zero-knowledge cryptography
• Mythical Games’ expertise in building accessible, player-owned gaming economies that millions can enjoy without needing to understand crypto

Together, we are exploring what happens when participation is voluntary, incentives are transparent, and community trust is treated as a requirement rather than an afterthought.

A rare community moment: live on X Spaces

To mark the opening of Brave Games pre-registration, the BAT community is invited to a special live X Spaces conversation on January 27 at 2:00pm Pacific / 5:00pm Eastern, taking place in lieu of the usual weekly BAT Community Call.

The X Space will be hosted by Luke Mulks, VP of Business Operations at Brave, and will feature Brendan Eich, CEO and co-founder of Brave; Charles Hoskinson, CEO of Input Output Global and the visionary behind Midnight; and John Linden, CEO of Mythical Games.

This kind of open, unscripted conversation between leaders across three major ecosystems is rare, particularly in a format where the community can listen in, engage directly, and ask questions in real time.

The discussion will explore:

• Why Brave Games came together
• What each team hopes to learn from the experiment
• How community participation will help shape what comes next

“Brave Games combines social networks, communities, and Brave’s 107 million monthly active users into dynamic gameplay that brings partners and networks new ways to bring their latest and best projects to market for real users to enjoy together.” — Brendan Eich, CEO & Co-founder of Brave

“Brave Games is an exciting example of what the open web can achieve when communities are treated as highly valued contributors, and supported by strong privacy and transparent incentives. Too often, participation online comes at the cost of control over personal data or identity. Brave Games shows how privacy-by-design and zero-knowledge technology can enable social, playful experiences without asking users to compromise on trust.” — Charles Hoskinson, CEO of Input Output 

“Brave Games is exactly the kind of experience we love at Mythical, it brings players together in a way that’s social, competitive, and rewarding. We’re excited to rally Team Mythical and show what our community can do when the stakes are high and the competition is real.” — John Linden, CEO of Mythical Games

What’s next

Pre-registration for Brave Games opens January 27, and from there the heist unfolds one phase at a time, as factions compete, alliances shift, and the vault draws closer.If you’re curious about where privacy-first design, community participation, and play can intersect, now is the time to start paying attention.

For ongoing updates, announcements, and key moments throughout the Brave Games, @AttentionToken on X will serve as the primary source of information.

Each faction will also host dedicated Brave Games channels in their Discord or Telegram communities, where interested participants can connect and start discussing the Games ahead of registration.

• Brave (BAT Brigade Discord) → Join the #brave-games-chat channel directly.
• Midnight Discord → Look for the #bravegames-all-comms channel.
• Mythical Games Telegram