I bought Illuvium 3 months back ($600 mark) and have staked it on sushiswap. The game looks great and I am farming about $1000 worth of the token by staking it, so by the time the release is out, I should have a good stack to get ahead of the curve. It's an immutable x game, but staking is done on ETH, so to get my farm going cost around $300 in gas. So, you'd need a significant amount to stake to make it worth it.
I haven't heard of mng... I'm going to check it out... I did put a small amount into BXS.
RE: Gearing up for a glorious PTE year