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List of Roblox games

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The Roblox Studio logo, a game engine where users can create and release games onto Roblox

The online video game and game creation system Roblox has had numerous games 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; some of the games have millions of active players monthly, about 5,000 games having over a million visits and a few having over a billion.[1]

The following is a list of notably popular games, referred to by Roblox as experiences.

List

Adopt Me!

Main article: Adopt Me!

Adopt Me! is a massively multiplayer online role-playing 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.[2] As of July 2020, the game had been played upwards of ten billion times.[3] Adopt Me! was averaging 600,000 concurrent players as of June 2020, making it the most popular game on Roblox.[2] 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.[4][5] Uplift Games, the studio behind the game, has accumulated over $16 million in revenue, mostly from microtransactions.[6][7]

Break In

Break In is a survival horror video game developed by New Zealand university student Alec Kieft.[8] The story focuses around a group of players who are trapped inside a house that is being besieged by a gang.[8] Break In is considered to be part of a genre of Roblox games deemed "story games", which was popularised by the earlier games in the Camping series.[8][9] The game's popularity is attributed by Kieft to it being covered by several large YouTubers.[8]

Brookhaven RP

Brookhaven RP is a role-playing game where players can role-play with other users.[10] The game was cited as a key example of the roleplay genre that several prominent Roblox games are a part of.[8] The game once had around 477,000 concurrent players at one time.[11] The game won an award in the 2020 Bloxy Awards.[12]

Jailbreak

Some games on Roblox, such as Jailbreak (pictured), have been popular enough to receive media attention

Jailbreak is a cops and robbers game which is among the most popular games on the site, accumulating tens of thousands of concurrent players daily, and which has been played a total of 4 billion times as of August 2020.[13][14] Released in April 2017, Jailbreak was conceived and created as a more fleshed-out version of an earlier Roblox game called Prison Life.[15] It accumulated over US$1 million in revenue during its first year of operation.[16]

Jailbreak was featured in Roblox's Ready Player One event, based around the release of the film.[17] Alex Balfanz, a co-creator of Jailbreak, covered his undergraduate education at Duke University using funds from the game.[18][13]

MeepCity

MeepCity is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game with noted similarities to Club Penguin and Toontown Online.[19] In addition to its role-playing quantities, MeepCity also features customizable pets, called "Meeps".[20] MeepCity's creator, Alex Bidello, stated in 2018 that he was making enough money off the game to pay two employees and support his mother and brother.[21] Bidello is noted for his development techniques, which include playing the game on alt accounts to gauge the reactions of new players.[22] MeepCity was the first game on Roblox to pass 1 billion total visits.[22] The game was averaging 100,000 concurrent players in July 2018.[21]

Murder Mystery 2

Murder Mystery 2 is a 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.[22] The game's level design has been praised by critics.[23]

Natural Disaster Survival

Natural Disaster Survival is a game where players are tasked with the role of surviving a litany of natural disasters thrown against them.[24] The game has been positively compared to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.[23] Along with Work at a Pizza Place, Natural Disaster Survival is one of the oldest games on Roblox that still manages to maintain any degree of popularity.[25]

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.[26][27][28] In the game, players can select weapons from four military types for each round they play.[26][28] Additionally, players are able to perform various actions, such as the ability to crouch, lie in a prone position, flank, and jump to cover.[27] Phantom Forces has received praise from critics for its design, controls, and complexity for a Roblox game.[26][27][28] The game has also received three Bloxy Awards,[27] and is one of the more popular games on the site, accumulating about 10,000 players daily.[26]

Piggy

Piggy is an episodic horror game that incorporates elements from Peppa Pig and the indie horror game Granny into a zombie apocalypse setting.[29] The games' style of episodic storytelling resulted in a significant fanbase developing prior to the game's finale on May 25, 2020.[30] Piggy was uploaded to the site in January 2020, and had been played nearly 5 billion times as of July 2020.[3] A sequel, titled Piggy: Book 2, released on September 12, 2020.[31]

Pokémon Brick Bronze

A battle in progress in Pokémon Brick Bronze

Pokémon Brick Bronze was a role-playing video 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.[32] At its height, the game was regularly reaching tens of thousands of concurrent users.[33] Pokémon Brick Bronze was one of many Pokémon games on Roblox, though it was widely considered the most extensive.[34] 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.[35]

Pokémon Brick Bronze played much like a traditional Pokémon handheld game. At the beginning, players chose 1 out of 21 Pokémon from numerous games.[33] 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.[33]

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".[36] 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".[34] Steven Asarch, writing in Player-One, gave a negative review of the game, criticizing what he considered the "poor implementation of the battle system".[37]

Royale High

Royale High (originally called Fairies and Mermaids Winx High School)[38] is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Callmehbob.[22] The game is set in a magical universe and deals with a fantasy school where players dress-up as royalty and as supernatural creatures.[38] Launched in 2017, Royale High had more than 3.5 billion total visits as of July 2020, regularly achieving thousands of concurrent players, making it one of the most popular games on the platform.[39][40]

Tower of Hell

Tower of Hell is a multiplayer obstacle course game where the player must get past a variety of obstacles to get to the top of the tower.[41] Unlike traditional Roblox obstacle courses, there are no checkpoints.[42] Tower of Hell has been played around 8.6 billion times. The game was nominated “Best Mobile Game” in the 7th annual Bloxy awards, however lost.[43]

Welcome to Bloxburg

Welcome to Bloxburg is a game based on The Sims, noted for being a Roblox game which players have to purchase with 25 Robux before playing.[44] As of December 2019, the game had been played 1.4 billion times.[22] 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.[45]

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.[23] The game is considered a classic among the Roblox userbase, with the creator attributing its success to the game's ability to encourage socializing.[22] The game has received praise for its driving mechanics.[23]

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