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Roblox is revealing its summit games of all time, and it says that each 1 of them has been played more a billion times.

Roblox's games are attainable in its virtual world, and they have reached a huge level of date with its mostly child and teenage audience, with 100 meg monthly active users in 200 countries. Those fans spend more than a billion hours in the Lego-like online gaming world per month.

And 50% of active users on Roblox play with their friends.

The rankings are as follows:

  • MeepCity — iv.5 billion plays (Roblox officially calls these "visits").
  • Jailbreak — 3.one billion plays
  • Prefer Me! — three.0 billion plays
  • Royale Loftier — ii.4 billion plays
  • Murder Mystery 2 — 2.0 billion plays
  • Work at a Pizza Place — 1.nine billion plays
  • Welcome to Bloxburg — 1.4 billion plays
  • Prison Life — 1.2 billion plays
  • Flee the Facility — 1.i billion plays
  • Super Hero Tycoon — i.0 billion plays

And here's more than description of the ten-biggest Roblox games of all times (equally of November 2019):

MeepCity

Released in 2016 by a programmer who goes by Alexnewtron, MeepCity was the beginning Roblox game to ever become more 1 billion visits. In this experience, you tin play with millions of other MeepCity visitors and chat, enjoy different games, earn coins, or customize your estate. To this day, Roblox says Alex still plays MeepCity because he believes it is super-important to understand the reasons people are into it. He fifty-fifty uses different accounts to become insights on first-fourth dimension user experience and interact with everyone.

He said in a statement, "We have a small team, but together, we blueprint ideas and content based on how people play MeepCity. For example, we saw how much players loved to roleplay in the pizza shack, so, nosotros decided to add an ice cream parlor, and the community loved it."

Jailbreak

Above: Jailbreak has been played 3.ane billion times on Roblox.

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Currently in its 4th season, Jailbreak was voted by Roblox customs every bit the "Game I've spent the most hours playing" in the 2019 Bloxy Awards. In the game, you can orchestrate a robbery or stop the criminals before they get abroad, or team up with friends for fifty-fifty more fun and plan the ultimate raid or heist. Choosing the role of a criminal means your goal will be to escape from prison house, or y'all could exist a cop preventing the criminal's escape.

Alex Balfanz, who created Jailbreak with 1 other programmer (who wishes to remain anonymous), shared in a contempo interview that afterwards they released Jailbreak in early on 2017 (working on information technology later on school and in their spare time) it only "blew up" with "immediate and lasting popularity." You lot can play Jailbreak online on Roblox, or extend your play to the physical globe with Jailbreak toys and sets (developers who have their games referenced in Roblox toys share in the profits).

Prefer Me!

Higher up: Adopt Me! has had 3.0 billion plays on Roblox.

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Earlier this year, Adopt Me! broke new ground, attracting hundreds of thousands of concurrent players (over 500,000 at one betoken, which is a tape for any game on the Roblox platform) when the game was updated with a new characteristic release: adopting pets. Just well-nigh any time you check in on this, you'll see over 100,000 users playing together: adopting pets, designing their own homes, exploring Adoption Isle, and more.

The creators Bethink (creative director) and NewFissy (tech director) accept been playing on Roblox for many years, only a few years ago, they started experimenting with game development. Adopt Me! was a fast success (they made it in 2017), and the creators believe that encouraging adoption in the virtual earth can have an impact on the existent world. New pets to adopt come with every new release, including turkeys in the Thanksgiving update and bees.

Royale High

Above: Royale High has been played ii.4 billion times.

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Remember your high school prom? If y'all'd love an opportunity to dress up every day and show off your new astonishing garments to friends, yous'll experience at dwelling house in Royale High. You lot tin can join tens of thousands of people playing at whatsoever given moment, detect new friends and places to explore with new content added on an ongoing basis.

Callmehbob, the creator of this pop experience, is a celebrity on the platform, with what Roblox says is half-a-one thousand thousand followers and friends. A "girlie girl" who loves everything pink (as she describes herself), Callmehbob started playing when she was about 12 and was stoked to see the introduction of female body shapes for avatars on the platform a few years later.

She then decided to acquire Roblox Studio in order to create a beautiful environment where she could dress upward and role-play. In one case Royale High became available 2017, it took just a few weeks for hundreds of people to observe it and start playing. And then thousands and, eventually, millions. At present a community of dedicated fans are creating beautiful items for the earth of Royale High, and in the futurity, the creator thinks people could be creating their own businesses like their own vesture shops within this world, make their ain currency, and then much more.

"Nosotros haven't even tapped into whatever of that yet," said Callmehbob, in a statement, maxim she and her squad see themselves working on Royale High for many more years to come.

Murder Mystery two

Above: Murder Mystery ii has been played 2 billion times.

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Can you solve the mystery and survive each round? Nikilis, who came up with this intriguing feel (first released on Roblox in 2014, but with multiple updates since), proved that yous don't have to build massive (in characteristic telescopic and architecture) games to garner millions of plays. At the beginning of each round you are assigned a role: Innocents run and hide from the murderer, but as well apply their detective skills to expose the Murderer; the Sheriff works with the Innocents as only they tin can take downward the murderer; the murderer is just trying to eliminate everyone and non get shot by the sheriff.

Prior to Murder Mystery, Nikilis had some games on the platform and some fan groups besides, but he didn't expect the experience to become so successful. He recalled in a statement, "I was testing the gameplay mechanics with a few friends, but they actually weren't that interested. And then I sat in a server past myself, and posted the link on some of my group walls. I finally got one server total and decided to go to bed. When I woke upward, there were thousands of people playing the game."

Work at a Pizza Place

To a higher place: Piece of work at a Pizza Place has been played 1.9 billion times.

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Who knew working at a pizza place could exist and then much fun? This roleplaying game is one of the most longstanding on the platform (launched in 2008), and other successful Roblox creators like Callmehbob say it was amongst top favorites before they came up with her own ideas. This game allows Roblox users to learn how to manage a pizza shop. You go pizza orders to fulfill, and the coin you brand tin can be used on various upgrades. The longer you play, the larger your house becomes, and y'all can populate it with more and more aesthetic additions like piece of furniture, new floors, etc. As ane of the employees (y'all choose if you'd like to be a cashier, pizza chef, commitment person, pizza boxer, or supplier) you get detailed task instructions for y'all chore (you can also switch your role at any fourth dimension).

Programmer Dued1 explained in a statement, "The idea for the game came to me when I was working every bit a grocery store bagger. Being a bag boy showed me the concept of an assembly line—someone would put the food on the shelf, then someone would scan the food, and then the bagger gets the food in a handbag. I wanted to recreate that in a game."

He thinks the fundamental to the game's success is an opportunity to socialize with friends and visitors while working together towards a common goal — who doesn't love some camaraderie?

Welcome to Bloxburg

In a higher place: Welcome to Bloxburg has been played 1.4 billion times.

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Created in 2014 by Coeptus (currently a university student who prefers to keep his existent name private and works on the game in his spare time), Welcome to Bloxburg is a virtual globe where y'all live and work choosing among several types of jobs available for yous. Using your earnings, you tin can build and design a house, ain cool vehicles, hang out with friends, roleplay, or explore the city of Bloxburg.

Coeptus explained in interviews that he had no actual development experience prior to finding out most Roblox, simply had quite a large interest in computers and video games. Once he created and launched Welcome to Bloxburg, the number of players grew very quickly: from well-nigh 20 plays in the showtime days to thousands a few weeks afterward. Somewhen, players started sharing their fun experience on social media and uploading videos of themselves playing on YouTube, and the game has been a success e'er since. Five years in, Coeptus's focus is entirely on Welcome to Bloxburg — improving the experience, working on updates, and keeping in touch with the actor community.

Prison house Life

To a higher place: Prison Life has been played 1.two billion times.

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Created in 2014 Prison house Life is another hitting game with a prison house theme that gained thousands of defended fans. The game won a Bloxy Award in 2016 for having the almost mobile visitors and concurrents (at the fourth dimension). The developer known every bit Aesthetical started his first year of college in 2017, which means for a while he didn't take much fourth dimension to spend working on the game. All the same, more recently, he announced a renewed focus on the game, which Roblox expects will result in heady new updates in the months ahead.

Flee the Facility

To a higher place: Abscond the Facility has been played 1.1 billion times.

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This thriller first appeared on Roblox in 2017, quickly spiking the interest of Roblox players trying to escape The Fauna. Your goal here is to hide or run abroad from the beast, and the run is intense! One player is a killer hunting down survivors, and other players are survivors who are running for their lives, having to collaborate in club to unlock the exits. The game'south creator MrWindy is a academy educatee who really loves making games. The game has hundreds of thousands of fans.

Super Hero Tycoon

Above: Super Hero Tycoon has been played a billion times.

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Who doesn't want to exist a superhero sometimes? Wait no more and try a greatcoat on in Super Hero Tycoon where you can become one of the superheroes and build upward your base to unspeakable size. Programmer Hiddo, who created this game in 2016, is from the Netherlands and has a pop YouTube channel with almost 200K subscribers. His YouTube aqueduct features just one video: Super Hero Tycoon game trailer, which has racked up over 1M views, underscoring how popular his game has become and how engaged the Roblox community is effectually him.

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