This Roblox Game Is Blowing Up In Popularity In just under two months, a Roblox user-created game called Grow a Garden has become a massive hit. By Blair Marnell on May 22, 2025 at 1:58AM PDT 1 ...

Technically an “experience” within the game-creation platform Roblox, it smashed its own record for concurrent users by reeling in 16.4 million active players on Saturday.

It was 2008 and, compared to the era’s hottest games — the violent Gears of War, the vulgar Grand Theft Auto — Roblox was relatively juvenile, with bright colours and janky graphics.