List of Roblox games facts for kids

Roblox promotional image of various games on the platform.

The online video game and game creation system Roblox has numerous games (officially referred to as "experiences") created by users of their creation tool, Roblox Studio. Due to Roblox's popularity, various games created on the site have grown increasing attention in popularity, with some games having millions of active players monthly, about 5,000 games have over a million visits, and a few having over a billion.

This is a list of Roblox games that have received media attention.

Original games

Adopt Me!

Adopt Me! is a massively multiplayer online game where the nominal focus is players pretending to be either parents adopting a child, or children getting adopted, though the de facto focus is around adopting and caring for many different pets, who can be traded with other players. As of October 2022, the game had been played upwards of thirty billion times. Adopt Me! was averaging 600,000 concurrent players as of June 2020, making it the most popular game on Roblox. Due to the high cost of pets within the game, with some rare pets selling for up to US$100, a large number of scammers have risen up within the game. As the primary user base of Adopt Me! is on average younger than the rest of Roblox, they are especially susceptible to falling for scams. Uplift Games, the studio behind the game, has accumulated over $16 million in revenue, mostly from microtransactions. The game won three awards in the 2020 Bloxy Awards.

Blade Ball

Blade Ball is an action game whose gameplay is similar to dodgeball and involves players wielding a variety of swords to defend themselves from the titular ball. Said ball speeds up over the course of each round of the game, and lock on to players.

Brookhaven RP

Brookhaven RP (also known as Brookhaven) is a massively multiplayer online game where players can role-play with other users. The game was cited as a key example of the roleplay genre that several prominent Roblox games are a part of. Brookhaven RP once had around 800,000 concurrent players at one time. The game was nominated for "Favorite Video Game" at the 2022 Kids' Choice Awards and 2023 Kids' Choice Awards.

Doors

Doors is well received for its "Victorian-era" aesthetic.

Doors (stylized in all caps) is a first-person roguelite horror escape room video game developed by indie game developers LSPLASH and Red, based on another Roblox game, Rooms. Players open doors and go through hotel rooms through trial and error to progress through the game and escape. Players can get items to help them progress through the game, while creatures called "entities" (such as Screech, Figure and Seek) either try to kill the player in various ways or help them (like Guiding Light, El Goblino and Jeff). Players can display how they are progressing through the game by showing off one selected achievement and how many times they died.

Doors was released on August 10, 2022. In November 2022, the game hit 1 billion visits. A major update revamping the hotel was released on January 29, 2023. A nod to Rooms was added as part of said update, featuring a revamped version of the game as a secret level. On August 26, 2023, modifiers were added, allowing the player to change their game after beating it. A second floor has been confirmed to be in development. The game participated in the first edition of The Hunt, adding a new sub-floor, called "The Backdoor".

Whitney Meers of PCGamesN described the horror element of the game as "too much for YouTubers to handle". Carlos Mestre of TheGamer described the game as a "spine-chilling adventure" and said that the hotel is "Victorian era-esque". In December, the game had a collaboration with Makeship for Screech plushies. Subsequent collaborations with Makeship included limited-time Seek plushies available until June 2, 2023 and El Goblino plushies available until September 1, 2023. The game collaborated with another Roblox game, Tower Heroes, featuring El Goblino as a limited-time character.

Epic Minigames

Epic Minigames is a game developed by TypicalType, where players participate in various minigames, ranging from parkour courses to turn-based combat. The game participated in the Roblox Egg Hunt of 2020, and gained popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic among children.

Flee the Facility

Flee the Facility is a horror escape room game developed by A.W. Apps where players must escape without being captured by the 'Beast'. Up to four players are designated as 'Survivors', who must escape the facility by hacking several computers before escaping through one of the two exits. One player is designated to be the 'Beast', who must knock out and capture the Survivors in cryogenic chambers before they can escape. Flee the Facility surpassed 3 billion visits on April 16, 2022.

Frontlines

Gameplay of Frontlines, demonstrating the games graphics, which were a large subject of its praise.

Frontlines (stylized in all caps) is a first-person shooter game that first released to the public as a beta in February 2022, with its full release a year later on February 22, 2023. The game was developed by Maximillian (stylized in all caps), a team of five people beginning in 2019. In the game, two teams of seven players fight for the highest score in a match. Each player's loadout can be customized with different weapons, of which can be further modified with a variety of different attachments. Each player can also customize their 'skills', granting them a variety of different buffs in-game.

Since its release, the game has received widespread acclaim, primarily for its graphics, which have been described as "not looking like Roblox" and "being visually indistinguishable from Call of Duty" by critics. The game has been further directly compared to releases such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II. It has also collaborated with the metal band Metallica.

Hide and Seek Extreme

Hide and Seek Extreme is a game developed by Tim7775 based on the children's game hide-and-seek, where one randomly selected player is chosen as "It" and has to find the other players. The player that is chosen as It also gains a special ability to help them find the other players, while the hiders have the ability to taunt at It. Maps generally take place in various environments in a house such as a living room, with players being the "size of toys in a toy store". The games "creative" level design and "easy to jump in and play" gameplay have been praised.

Jailbreak

Jailbreak is an action-adventure game which is among the most popular games on the site, accumulating tens of thousands of daily players, and which has been played a total of 6 billion times as of October 2022. Released in April 2017, Jailbreak's gameplay involves players in the role of criminals escaping prison and committing crimes such as heists and players in the role of the police trying to stop them, which Barry Stevens of Entertainment Focus likened to the Grand Theft Auto series. The game was conceived and created as a more fleshed-out version of an earlier Roblox game called Prison Life. It accumulated over US$1 million in revenue during its first year of operation.

Jailbreak was featured in Roblox's Ready Player One event, based around the release of the film. Alex Balfanz, a co-creator of Jailbreak, covered his undergraduate education at Duke University using funds from the game.

MeepCity

MeepCity (stylised in lowercase) is a massively multiplayer online game with noted similarities to Club Penguin and Toontown Online. In addition to its role-playing quantities, MeepCity also features customizable pets, called "Meeps". MeepCity's creator, Alex Binello, stated in 2018 that he was making enough money off the game to pay two employees and support his mother and brother. Binello is noted for his development techniques, which include playing the game on alternate accounts to gauge the reactions of new players. MeepCity was the first game on Roblox to pass 1 billion total visits. The game was averaging 100,000 concurrent players in July 2018. The game received criticism throughout 2021 due to the number of online daters inside the game and inappropriate clothing and actions found in the party feature. This caused the game to be placed as "under review" by Roblox on February 16, 2022, but the game was put back up a few hours later. At the same time, it was announced that parties were to be removed.

Murder Mystery 2

Murder Mystery 2 is a social deduction game where players are randomly assigned roles to play each round. One player is selected to be a murderer, who must kill everyone to win. Another player is selected to be a sheriff and must kill the murderer to win; all remaining players are selected as innocents whose goal is to survive. The game's level design has been praised by critics.

Natural Disaster Survival

Natural Disaster Survival is a game where players are tasked with the role of surviving a litany of natural disasters, including earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunamis, fires, thunderstorms, sandstorms and floods. The winners are the players who survive to the end of the round.

Christian Vaz of PCGamesN rated the game as one of the best Roblox games, comparing it to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. However, the real world disaster response advice that the game was seen to be imparting was criticised by Bevan Findlay of University of Auckland. This included advice to get "outside in the midst of an earthquake" or sheltering inside to avoid tornados, concluding that "wrong advice on disaster preparedness needs to be avoided".

Pet Simulator X

Pet Simulator X is an incremental game where the player collects different pets. The game features over 1,000 pets to collect and allows players to trade pets from other people and hatch pets from loot boxes known as eggs. The game sparked controversy among the Roblox community in November 2021 when the developers, BIG Games, integrated non-fungible tokens into the game, the first ever instance of such on the platform. The game has been played over 5 billion times as of January 2023. A sequel, Pet Simulator 99, was released on December 1, 2023, with select pets from Pet Simulator X being able to be transferred to the game.

Phantom Forces

Phantom Forces is a first-person shooter game that has been positively compared to the Call of Duty, Battlefield, and Counter-Strike franchises. In the game, players can select weapons from four military types for each round they play. Additionally, players are able to perform various actions, such as the ability to crouch, lie in a prone position, flank, and jump to cover. Phantom Forces has received praise from critics for its design, controls, and complexity for a Roblox game. The game has also received three Bloxy Awards, and in 2018 was one of the more popular games on the site, accumulating about 10,000 players daily.

Piggy

Piggy is an episodic horror game series that incorporates elements from Peppa Pig and the indie horror game Granny into a zombie apocalypse setting. The games' style of episodic storytelling resulted in a significant fandom developing prior to the game's finale on May 25, 2020. Piggy was uploaded to the site in January 2020 by Kohl Couture (also known as MiniToon) and had been played 12 billion times as of November 2023. Piggy also collaborated with Metallica in an event called Metallica x Piggy Event.

A sequel to Piggy, titled Piggy: Book 2, released on September 12, 2020. The last chapter was released on October 23, 2021. On November 24, 2022, MiniToon announced that the main game of Piggy was over.

The demo to another entry, Piggy: Intercity, an open-world survival game, was released on January 28, 2021.

Project Lazarus

Project Lazarus: Zombies is a first-person shooter developed by logitech101 that is reminiscent of Call of Duty Zombies. The game features a horde of zombies attacking a group of up to six people on one of two different maps, both based on existing Call of Duty Zombies maps. The player has the ability to purchase and upgrade weapons, including the fabled ray gun from Call of Duty, as well as being able to purchase Perk-A-Cola's and unlock new areas. Other games based on Call of Duty Zombies with the same gameplay as Project Lazarus have released since, such as Michael's Zombies.

Rainbow Friends

Rainbow Friends is an episodic horror game developed by Roy & Charcle where players attempt to escape the titular group of monsters (namely, Blue, Green, Orange, Purple, Yellow and Cyan) by collecting items. Players can hide in a box to avoid detection. Chapter 1 was released on July 1, 2022. Chapter 2, released on June 2, 2023, takes place in Odd World. Jacqueline Zalace of The Gamer described the game as a "horror-themed Miss Frizzle field trip where monsters lure you into a scary theme park to collect items".

Rift Royale

Rift Royale was a battle royale game developed by Easy.gg, the developers behind BedWars and Islands. The game was inspired by Fortnite Battle Royale, and was an attempt to create an "awesome competitive game" within the Roblox platforms limitations. In August 2022, the game was shut down following a mass wave of exploiters rendering the game unable to be maintained by the developers, with them stating that what they wanted to do was not possible on the platform. It amassed 29 million visits by the time it had shut down.

Royale High

Royale High (originally called Fairies and Mermaids Winx High School) is a massively multiplayer online game developed by Callmehbob. The game is set in a magical universe and deals with a fantasy school where players dress-up as royalty or supernatural creatures. Launched in 2017, Royale High had more than 8.2 billion total visits as of October 2022, regularly achieving thousands of concurrent players, making it one of the most popular games on the platform.

Scuba Diving at Quill Lake

Scuba Diving at Quill Lake is an exploration game where the player explores the ocean floor for different treasures. The player is able to sell different treasures to unlock new equipment, which will allow them to explore underwater caverns. Robert Earl Wells III of Lifewire commended the game as the perfect game to "play before bed that won't get you too wound up".

Slap Battles

Slap Battles is a fighting game where players are placed in an arena with a "glove". Players utilise the gloves to slap other players off the arena. The game is also a participant of the first edition of The Hunt, featuring an in-game quest. Jupiter Hadley, writing for Pocket Gamer, wrote a positive reception of the game, describing it as "just silly, wacky fun".

Speed Run 4

Speed Run 4 is a fast-paced platform game developed by Vurse. In the game, the player is to complete 31 different themed levels as fast as possible. After completing the main game, players can unlock different "dimensions", which change the themes of each level in the game. The game's choice of music and short-burst-styled gameplay has been praised. The game reached one billion visits in June 2021.

Theme Park Tycoon 2

Theme Park Tycoon 2 is a business simulation game where the player must construct their own theme park on a budget. The game features various different mechanics for the player to keep track of, such as sanitary conditions, while having to accommodate for as many guests as possible with various different amenities. Also featured in the game are online leaderboards, allowing the player to compete with others globally in revenue and guest attendance numbers. The game has been compared to RollerCoaster Tycoon.

The Mimic

The Mimic is a horror game that consists of four distinct "books" based off Japanese folklore where the player is the main character. The game is also a participant in the first edition of The Hunt. Allyson Cochran, writing for The Gamer, applauded the game's "astonishingly impressive graphics", further elaborating that it would "leave you questioning if you've stumbled upon a Roblox game at all". Logan Gilchrist of Dot Esports called the game "interesting because it provides more story than the average Roblox horror game".

Tower of Hell

Tower of Hell is a multiplayer platform game where the player must get past a variety of obstacles to get to the top of the tower. Unlike traditional Roblox obstacle courses, there are no checkpoints. Tower of Hell has been played around 19.2 billion times as of October 2022. The game was nominated "Best Mobile Game" in the 7th annual Bloxy awards, however lost.

Welcome to Bloxburg

Welcome to Bloxburg is a game developed by Coffee Stain Gothenburg, and published by Coffee Stain Studios. The game is based on The Sims, and is noted for being a Roblox game in which players have to purchase 25 Robux before playing. As of November 2023, the game had been played 8 billion times. Welcome to Bloxburg was used as a demonstrative tool at a summer camp called the Junior Builder Camp in order to teach children about homebuilding.

Work at a Pizza Place

Work at a Pizza Place is a game in which players work together to fulfill orders at a pizza parlor. The game is considered a classic among the Roblox userbase, due to it being one of the oldest still-popular games on the platform, with the creator attributing its success to the game's ability to encourage socializing. The game has received praise for its driving mechanics. Work at a Pizza Place was the first game on Roblox to be played 100 million times, and it has since been played over 4 billion times as of October 2022.

Licensed games

These games are based on intellectual properties separate from Roblox and have the owners' licenses to be so.

Five Nights at Freddy's: Survival Crew

Five Nights at Freddy's: Survival Crew is a horror game based on the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise by Scott Cawthon. The game description states that players are put into the role of "Fazbear Security’s newest team member". Developed by Metaverse Team Frights with oversight from Cawthon, the game was accidentally released on December 20, 2023, following the team misinterpreting instructions given by Cawthon. The game was met with backlash from fans of the series due to its unfinished state, with Rishabh Sabarwal of Dexerto describing the gameplay as a clone of Dead by Daylight. Later that day, the game was shut down after Cawthon heard of its early release, with Cawthon stating that the game was "in no way ready to be released to the public" and that it will receive a proper release some time in 2024.

Hyundai Mobility Adventure

Hyundai Mobility Adventure is a virtual space showcasing Hyundai Motor Company's vehicles and "future mobility solutions". It was unveiled with the start of the open beta service on September 1, 2021, and the official service began on October 14, 2021. Hyundai Mobility Adventure allows the player to drive vehicles such as Hyundai Ioniq 5 and experience future mobility such as urban air mobility (UAM), purpose-built vehicles (PBV), and robotics.

Mechamato Robot Battle

Mechamato Robot Battle is a game based on the Mechamato animated series and set in the BoBoiBoy universe and developed by Monsta Game. It is an adventure game released on October 15, 2022, where player can level up by eliminating the legion of bad robots and collect coins by exploring the Kota Hilir town.

Party!!! at Olivia's Place

Party!!! at Olivia's Place (stylized in lowercase) is a virtual hangout advergame themed around Olivia Rodrigo. It features a scavenger hunt themed around her sophomore album, Guts, and three songs from said album.

Sonic Speed Simulator

Sonic Speed Simulator is a Sonic the Hedgehog incremental platform game developed by Gamefam Studios in association with Sega of America. Within the game, the player is required to level up by moving around and collecting Chaos Orbs to run faster and jump higher. The game was initially launched on April 13, 2022 as a paid beta game, costing 50 Robux to access, and officially released as free-to-play three days later. Reaching 70 million plays and 275,000 concurrent players in the first week of its release, it broke the record for the largest launch on Roblox, and it would reach 500 million visits in its first four months.

SpongeBob Simulator

SpongeBob Simulator is a SpongeBob SquarePants incremental game developed by Gamefam Studios in association with Nickelodeon and Paramount Global. Players control their avatar or a character from the franchise and journeys Bikini Bottom collecting doubloons and rubies through the use of their "buddies". Buddies collect the currencies for the player which the player can use to purchase various items, such as a boat mount, additional buddy slots, and the Octuple Clam Open, allowing simultaneous opening of eight clams. A paid beta of the game was released on September 9, 2023. With an original set release date of January 26, 2024, the game was later rescheduled to launch on February 2, 2024.

Unlicensed games

These games, while based on intellectual properties separate from Roblox, are not licensed by the owners to be so. Unlicensed fan games are an example.

3008

3008 is an open-world horror game where players navigate an "infinite IKEA" filled with supplies, either to make a base or as food, as well as hostile IKEA employees that attack players at night. It is based on SCP-3008, which is from the SCP Foundation universe.

Anime Fighting Simulator

Anime Fighting Simulator is a fighting game developed by BlockZone. The game features various different playable characters from different manga, anime, and video games such as Final Fantasy VIII. The game also features a competitive tournament mode and story mode.

Apeirophobia

Apeirophobia is an episodic horror escape room game based on the Backrooms creepypasta. Players solve puzzles in order to escape the game's "levels", while also evading entities. The game has been compared to Outlast, and is still in its alpha phase.

Bedwars

Bedwars (stylized as BedWars) is a game developed by Easy.gg based on the fanmade Minecraft minigame of the same name. Similar to the original version, players defend their bed from other opponents while attempting to destroy other player's beds. Unlike the Minecraft version, the game has more weapons to use.

Blox Fruits

Blox Fruits is an action fighting game created by Gamer Robot that is inspired by the manga and anime One Piece. In the game, players choose to be a master swordsman, a powerful fruit user, a martial arts attacker or a gun user as they sail across the seas alone or in a team in search of various worlds and secrets with the goal of becoming "the strongest player to ever live". Items known as "fruits" grant the player various advantages and disadvantages in battles against powerful enemies and bosses. Some fruits are the Dragon, Light, Magma and Buddha fruits. The game has been described by VG247 to be "one of the most content-packed games on Roblox", and the game itself has been played over 31 billion times as of March 2024. An update of the game (Update 20) caused an influx of players in the game, causing outages in Roblox servers.

Pokémon Brick Bronze

Pokémon Brick Bronze was a role-playing game released in 2015 and developed by Llama Train Studio. It was not affiliated with the Pokémon media franchise. It was removed from the platform in April 2018 by Roblox administrators, reportedly after copyright concerns were raised by Nintendo. At its height, the game was regularly reaching tens of thousands of concurrent users. Pokémon Brick Bronze was one of many Pokémon games on Roblox, though it was widely considered the most extensive. The game's graphics were mostly a 3D block-style consistent with most games on Roblox, though the Pokémon were each represented by 3DS models in a pixel art style.

Pokémon Brick Bronze played much like a traditional Pokémon handheld game. At the beginning, players chose 1 out of 21 Starter Pokémon from numerous games. Brick Bronze featured combat similar to actual Pokémon games, with a turn-based battle system and NPC opponents that consisted of trainers and other traditional Pokémon enemies.

Luke Binns of Softonic gave a positive review of Brick Bronze, praising its expansiveness and declaring that "When playing Pokémon Brick Bronze, you may think you're playing the real thing". David Jagneaux, writing in PCMag, also spoke positively of the game, stating that it had "enough original ideas to occupy several days of your time". Steven Asarch, writing in Player-One, gave a negative review of the game, criticizing what he considered the "poor implementation of the battle system".

Ryanair Roblox

Ryanair Roblox is a fangame based on the Irish budget airline Ryanair developed by 11-year-old game developer Sebastian Codling. Similar to real life, players have to purchase "tickets" to board the in-game flights, with "value" tickets being for free. Additionally, players can also apply for a job in the game. Ryanair Roblox celebrated its millionth flight on October 2023. Richard Currie of The Register described players taking up jobs in-game to "seem to take their roles seriously and harbor a strange fondness for Ryanair".

Total Roblox Drama

Total Roblox Drama is a story game based off the TV franchise, Total Drama. Similar to the series, players are split into teams and must compete in challenges or risk getting voted out by their teammates. At some point, the teams would merge. A safety statue can also be found in the game, allowing the player to save anyone, including themselves from elimination. The game is also a participant in the first edition of The Hunt.