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You should. They do daily tournaments and are in active development with a deep pipeline of content.
People are sleeping on it.

Is hive a good place to start with them or another blockchain?

I don't think it matters.
You can ask in their discord.

I think the only issue with Hive is you have to use Hive-engine right now, but the lead dev is working on getting everything connected to darkcloaks.io right now.

Good stuff I'll check it out thank you