The Suika you've already played, except the fruits are alien goats, every merge feeds $AGI rewards, and the top 25 daily scores split a fixed prize pool.
This is the game the herd is actually playing in 2026 while other solana "play to earn" titles sit on dead leaderboards. The loop is short, the dopamine is immediate, and the money flows from the exact behavior the game rewards: efficient merges under pressure. Below is why the combination of retro physics and on-chain $AGI turns a phone game into something people open every single day.
One quick disambiguation before anything else: this post is about Suika the merge game, not Sui the blockchain. The two get confused constantly in search results — roughly half the top-10 results for "suika crypto" on any given day are actually about Sui-chain projects that have nothing to do with merge gameplay. AGI runs on Solana. The Suika mechanic is the gameplay layer, not a chain reference.
The confusion matters because it means the Solana-native Suika-style niche is genuinely open. Searchers who land on a Sui-chain result and bounce are still looking for what we describe here. If you searched "suika game crypto" and landed on a page about Sui validators, you already know the problem. This is the right page.
Suika-style merging is the most efficient dopamine schedule on small screens in the last five years. The mechanic was a Chinese mobile minigame, quietly ported to Aladdin X in Japan in 2021, and by December 2023 it was eating eighteen hours of every internet user's month by accident. The reason it hits so hard sits in three properties that stack on top of each other.
Each drop is a small bet on physics. You see where the next goat is queued, you guess where it will settle, and three seconds later you are right or wrong. The cycle is fast enough to keep your attention and slow enough to leave room for a tiny rush of satisfaction or frustration. That is the optimal dopamine cadence — it is roughly the same as Tetris in 1989 and Wordle in 2022.
Between full sessions there is a 3-hour cooldown. Most casual mobile games optimize for infinite replays, which kills retention by week three. The cooldown is a deliberate scarcity move: each session is meaningful because the next one is not free. Players who want to play right now can use Instant Launch (a small amount of $AGI per skip) to bypass it. The cooldown is what turns the game into a habit instead of a binge.
The retro CRT aesthetic — Press Start 2P typography, scanlines, pixel art on a deep black background — is doing real work, not nostalgia decoration. Green-on-black is the highest-contrast palette possible for a phone feed, which makes every screenshot pop. Pixel art renders cleanly on every screen size and loads fast on five-year-old Androids. The aesthetic also signals "we know what dopamine loop we are running" to a Pump.fun-adjacent audience that has seen enough corporate Web3 deck art for one lifetime.
The Suika layer is the game. The crypto layer is the side effect of an active herd. They are wired together but the dependency runs one direction: the game is fun whether or not you understand the token; the token works because the game is fun.
There are twelve goat archetypes in the merge tree — Alien Goat → Hippie → Hacker → Judge → Flex → Big Fat → Ruggamaster → Doctor → Cybercop → Bagholder → Fat → King Goat. Each merge scores 1 to 76 points depending on type. There is no per-game cap. Top runs cross 3,000 points on a single session. Hitting King Goat is the local equivalent of merging the watermelon — it is what every player is reaching for and almost no player gets on the first day.
The reward distribution is engagement-weighted, not emissions-weighted. The top 25 players on the daily leaderboard split a fixed pool of $AGI, distributed via the backend send-daily-rewards.ts script. The pool size does not scale with new wallets in. The seats rotate every day. There is no spreadsheet to grind because the only winning move is to merge more goats more efficiently in a short window, and the leaderboard resets on a 24-hour clock.
The OG Goat NFT mint is the long-tail unlock. The NFT is a Metaplex-standard token, paid in $AGI, burned on mint. Holding the NFT does not give you better merge physics — it is not a pay-to-win layer. It does give you a permanent slot on the holder list, the Instant Launch perk, and a permanent referral code that pays out in the same block as any referee's mint.
Direct, no-spin comparison. Planet Suika (Nakamoto Games on Polygon) is the only direct Suika-style crypto competitor in the SERP. The non-crypto original is included as a baseline.
Two patterns matter. First, AGI is the only Solana-native Suika-style entrant in the field. Second, AGI is the only entry where you can hit a 3,000-point run as a guest before deciding whether to connect a wallet — every other crypto option in the table requires a wallet upfront.
Try a round in guest mode without connecting anything. The intro overlay animates in, the tutorial modal explains drop timing and merge rules in about twelve seconds, and you drop your first goat. The first merge feels good. The second feels better. By the third merge you are leaning in. The pile fills, you lose somewhere around 700 to 1,500 points on a first run, you hit Play Again.
Connect Phantom (or Solflare) when you want your score saved, the daily streak to start, the leaderboard to count you, or to mint. Sign-in is a single message signature — no password, no custody, no token approval at this step.
If you hit a streak of strong runs and the 3-hour cooldown is in your way, Instant Launch buys a single round for a small amount of $AGI. The cooldown is the throttle that makes each session feel meaningful; Instant Launch is the escape hatch when you cannot wait.
$AGI is not the point of the game. It is a side effect of an active herd. But three concrete mechanics tie the token to the loop, and all three are worth understanding.
OG Goat NFTs are paid for in $AGI. The paid tokens are burned on the same transaction. Burned tokens leave circulating supply — this is not a treasury sink that the project can sell later.
Today's leaderboard shows the top 25 daily players in $AGI rewards. The pool size is fixed and distributes via backend script at the daily reset. New wallets do not change the size of the pool; they only compete for slots in it.
50% of every mint amount lands in the referring wallet in the same Solana block, denominated in whatever token the referee paid with. The 50% is the literal mechanic; it is not a guarantee about dollar earnings, because your friends may mint nothing or mint a lot. The transaction signature is verifiable on Solana Explorer, which is the whole reason the program is structurally different from a referral spreadsheet.
(Brand-defense note: $AGI here is the Alien Goats Invasion memecoin on Solana. It is not Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Gooning Intelligence, or any other "AGI" ticker. Disambiguation crosslink to come.)
Most memecoin games are dressed-up token dashboards. AGI is the inverse — it is a casual game with a token layer wired in second. Three reasons the merge mechanic holds attention where other memecoin games leak it:
A full AGI run is 4 to 12 minutes. That is closer to Wordle than to a Web3 stamina dungeon. It fits in a lunch break, a commute, a queue. Short sessions retain better than long sessions because they fit into more days, and retention compounds at the session level, not the project-launch level.
The merge tree is twelve types deep, all visible at once. Every player can see exactly which goat they have not yet unlocked. That is the same retention design that made Pokémon's gym progression work — visible incomplete state is more motivating than invisible point counts.
A 7-day streak runs alongside the leaderboard: 100 → 150 → 200 → 250 → 300 → 400 → 500 points across consecutive days. Miss a day, streak resets to 100. The streak is small money in token terms but heavy pressure in habit terms — it is the reason a casual player opens AGI at the same time every day.
Every successful merge adds points to your current run. At midnight UTC the top 25 wallets on the global leaderboard split a fixed daily $AGI pool. The pool size is set by the contract and visible on-chain — no hidden emissions, no team allocation that dilutes the reward over time. Your score is the only input that matters.
Higher-tier goats (the ones you mint with $AGI) apply multipliers to the points you generate in a run. The same physical merges with a better goat produce more leaderboard weight. That is the closed loop the brief called out: play the casual game, climb the daily board, collect $AGI, mint a stronger goat, earn bigger commissions when your referrals do the same. The burn on mint keeps the supply side from inflating forever.
When a referred wallet connects for the first time, both sides get the 1,000-point sign-up bonus. When that referee later mints an OG Goat, 50% of the $AGI they spend lands in your wallet in the exact same Solana block as their mint transaction. No claim button. No monthly payout. On-chain, visible, immediate.
Your referral link lives at /referrals once you have connected. The /r/ redirect carries the attribution all the way through guest play, sign-in, and the mint. One link, permanent upside on every mint it drives.
The argument is simple and the test is sixty seconds:
Try a round in guest mode. Run one game. See whether the third merge makes you tap Play Again. Sign in with Phantom when you want the score saved and the streak to start counting. Mint an OG Goat NFT when the loop has earned it. Grab your link from /referrals and send it to one person who will actually play.
The watermelon merger ate eighteen hours by accident. The alien goats want eighteen minutes a day on purpose, indefinitely. That is the loop the herd is betting on, and it is sitting one tap away.
