Why Good Roblox Games Are Unpopular | (Blox Fruits, Hexaria, Starscape, Pet Simulator 99, etc) 

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Got a good game that really cost some skills to play: Arcane Odyssey. Arcane odyssey is a RPG/adventure game where you have magic or use fighting skills or master the swordsman. You wake as on a island and decide to explore the island. Then you find that you whole memory is gone. While you sailing to a small town further it has been raided by Jaw pirates. After defeating the Jaw pirates you go to sleep and wake up next morning whit a quest to defeat magic user in the southern jaws. When you arrived at the southern jaws you have to defeat your first boss. After you defeated that boss you return to the small town and the next thing you want to do is go to a other island and this is where the adventure starts. Choose the path and be a hero to have order in the cursed seas or be a villian and bring chaos to the world and seek power! the adventure is yours in arcane odyssey.

I remember playing Starscape in around 2019. I have vivid memories of just flying around, mining ores and going lightspeed. That's what I love about the game. There wasn't dopamine rushes like getting a legendary clan, but more of just playing the game and enjoying the seconds.

Arcane Lineage is actually a W game. While there are a few bugs and things that might ruin your gameplay, they can sometimes be rare. I really recommend arcane lineage 10/10 game (I have too many hours on it)

I feel this. my favourite roblox game of all time, abyss world, has only 50-100 players max. meanwhile a game like adopt me and brookhaven have hundreds of thousands of players.

me personally i am a rock collector in starscape, seeing the full rock collection of every ore type satisfies me every time

Murder Mystery 2 is the only one of those popular games that is actually good

Most roblox garbage are made to be profitable today. Rarely will you ever find legitimately good games now.

Gambling was always there, for mostly every game but it was only a progression mechanic. Now it's gameplay. I feel like Roblox has become some cheap knockoff grinding simulators, where the developers lack professionalism.

It is sad to see Roblox just not caring about the games that push the Roblox engine to its limits but only care about the games that are more addicting and boring as hell.

We be getting every 8 year old mad whit talking bad about toilet defence

Blox fruits is actually a really good game if u arent lazy and deserves to be number 1 idc what u say

Piggy branched realities is severely underrated (max players I’ve seen is barely over a hundred) it has way better graphics and design than the original piggy game but for some reason it is not that popular

people dont want to play games that have no other people in them the best scenarios is when popular youtubers make videos on these types of games

3 reasons: •Gambling •RU-vidrs that kids watch •Trends and TikTok

Im so confused how games where you sit and open loot boxes and nothing else are so popular. Thats all i see on my home page.

It also sucks when people downvote really good smaller games.

I would rather play hexaria for 24 hours in a row than adopt me for 30 minutes

The reason underrated games exist because they don’t earn Roblox enough money to get recommended

The sad part of theses underrated games are they dont get recommended so the game just dies and the devs dont have enough money to be able to make updates so they just abandoned it I remeber playing pilgrammed with my homie after looking for an rpg beacuse I was bored until I found a hidden gem pilgrammed made me so hooked me and my homie would grind and try see who would get to the end game and get better builds and I remember when I finnaly made it to the end game with my homie me and my homie fought old fart together so many times to get that drop it just gave that memories you'll never forget I yap)

cant get bro to play arcane odyssey for an hour but he can play strongest battlegrounds for 12 hours straight :C

It’s honestly incredibly sad that the front page is filled with games that lack gameplay at all. Sols RNG, or what I like to call, Soulless RNG, has ZERO gameplay. The fact that people destroy their electricity bill just for some stupid name tag. Anime games are pretty cool, but I’m not a big fan of anime games. They usually take LOTS of grinding. And well, grinding just isn’t fun. Some games are just exploring some big map which also isn’t even interesting. Games these days aren’t as good as before.

Ragdoll universe is a great example of this. It gets 200 players max and is made by Lsplash, it has a similar level of quality to doors, but gets less players than gambling simulators.

Former & Current (and probably going to retire soon) (edit: not anymore, retired around May 5th) Sol’s RNG community and game translator here I translate stuffs for them but I do not play Sol’s RNG. Or maybe I should say, I also used to have this Sol’s RNG addiction phase for a little. That’s probably why I put an end to playing that game. I was first invited to the Sol’s RNG discord server back in this year January, when the game was small but fast growing, to translate the community rules in Korean into English. I have sort of already knew about this game because it appeared at my “Friends playing” list on the roblox home and I had some connections with several developers and community managers, which is also the reason how I could work as a translator there. I still clearly remember my first impression in discovering this game, and I have instantly realized that something was terribly wrong. I still remember how startled and disappointed I was to discover the fact that the whole and sole purpose of this game is to just stand in whatever spot around the map, press the roll button, and just wait until a rare aura appears which doesn’t even give any benefits except its appearance. I have already knew that playing this game meant spending my precious time for some data scraps that doesn’t exist physically and only appears cool on the monitor. So I thought I would never play that game. Yet I did. And got addicted for a while. You would be so shocked how easily you could get addicted in that game, even besides the fact that I already had some addiction issues before. I was so addicted around that time in seeing the aura appear effect and collecting the auras that the moment before I stopped playing it I remember having around 8k rolls. The actual time I spent looking at the monitor would be shorter because of the use of macro and the built-in auto roll later in the update, but still I knew that I was addicted. I was craving for more and more dopamine rush, and it started to sort of affect my in-real-life routines. After realizing the severity of my state apart from my other in-real-life issues I was going through, I decided to put the end in all this by quitting Sol’s RNG and my job as a translator there along with other discord communities, so I could focus more on my real life. Basically went out to touch grass. It didn’t take long for me to return back to the Sol’s RNG discord server to do translation jobs again, because I have somewhat resolved my in-real-life issues. I have returned back to Sol’s RNG discord server, but NOT the game, around March to translate some game setting descriptions and the quest dialogues for the NPC called Lime. I never even bothered to open Sol’s RNG ever after when I quitted, even when I was and am working on the translation before and now. I can’t really say my addiction issues are gone, but I am still working on to fix it. Addiction IS a disease, especially when you also have some flaws or defects to your brain, which everyone slightly has it in some way. It would be sometimes extremely hard to fix it, but trust me. It is treatable. If you want to know more about addiction I recommend reading a book called “The Addiction Solution” by David Kipper. It may be a little outdated but the basic frame is same as what I said above. Addiction IS a disease. P.S. I started playing when auto roll was not a thing, and I started using macro way later on. edit: I do not really blame the devs for Sol's RNG. I know some devs there from working with other projects previously and I know they were not ready to have Sol's RNG get this popular. The devs there are the same young adults like me and they are not in some big game company. That being said, Sol's RNG was not "planned" or "built" to purposely attract millions of players with highly addictive gameplay when it was first developed. I assume they were simply unaware of what would come afterwards when they first created Sol's RNG, as they might've simply trying to create a fun luck-based simulator game. I do not really know the details. Anyways, I believe generally for any popular games it's completely reasonable for the devs to continue developing the game since realistically you cannot really give up a popular project simply because of it's controversies. Some people are actually enjoying Sol's RNG without really finding any problems with their gameplay (which I personally don't believe) and I believe the devs didn't have a lot of choice but to keep bringing new contents to make the players to keep playing the game since they simply wanted them to have fun and wouldn't want them to be disappointed. Every devs have at least some pressures coming from their player base. Now the reason why Sol's RNG is so controversial would be their highly addictive and almost 0 gameplay feature, which is the biggest homework left for the devs of Sol's RNG to solve. I believe the devs should acknowledge more on how the gameplay for their game is like and try to prevent the players being too addicted, such as adding a daily roll limit or something. They should really come up with some creative ways to make their games less addictive. It's ironic how games are meant to be addictive but also carries this burden to be less addictive. For those who are lazy or hopefully just simply too busy to read this, here I have the entire text summarized with ChatGPT: I worked as a translator for Sol's RNG, a Roblox game, and became briefly addicted despite my initial skepticism about its simplistic and highly addictive nature. The game involves players standing in a spot, pressing a roll button, and waiting for rare auras with no real benefits. I quit due to the negative impact on my life but returned to translate without playing. Addiction is a disease, and it's crucial to recognize and address it. I don't blame the developers, as they likely didn't anticipate the game's popularity and its addictive potential. They should consider adding features to reduce addiction, like daily roll limits. Games are meant to be engaging, but they also need to manage their addictive aspects responsibly. Now please, stop commenting with your complaints of you can't read them all. I am open with feedbacks but, please know that I didn't write this comment to be pinned nor to receive these excessive amount of comments about complaining or arguing each other. It's a pain to receive all these notifications. I have my own life.

Creatures of Sonaria is a prime example of the “popular games”. It used to be a good game, with a lot less predatory tactics. But as the game got larger, it just started going downhill at a rapid pace. It was (and still is, to an extent) one of my favorite games on Roblox, and it saddens me how it has deteriorated to this grinding slop. However, the most recent event had been a lot better than previous ones (not as grindy), and I’ll say it is one of the less gambling-prone popular games. They aren’t focusing on the gachas as much, which is the gambling mechanic, and have been adding fewer new creatures every week. Although it won’t be a good as it used to be, maybe it’ll get a little better. AND THIS IS WHY I WANT TO LEARN HOW TO CODE. I so want to make my own game with no predatory tactics and that just focuses on fun. But it’s hard to find a good, up-to-date coding tutorial series! Does anyone know any? Edit: LOL this is the largest amount of likes and comments I have ever gotten. Thanks! Edit: Since It feels like some people want to know what my idea is, it’s basically a game similar to CoS; Creature survival. BUT, it would have extensive lore you can uncover and unique missions to complete in order to unlock more creatures and items in general. Also, BOSSES and AI! Ngl, I feel like CoS would be a lot better if they re-added the AI creatures and made actually interesting bosses that are available year-round. I would also attempt a more hardcore seasons system, one that actually changes gameplay.

2 main things you can learn after watching this video: 1. Every game you play makes you gamble with your time. The difference is quality. 2. Playing good game on Roblox = meeting with it's wiki, you ain't going far without that

i love gambling (my children are starving)

How the hell is vestaria bad?! I love the game it is soo good?! Tell me please…..

Starscape truly is a starscape, and deserves more love and attention

It's why i found the popularity of Deepwoken so refreshing you don't see complicated and harsh games on front page and you most likely never will again, Deepwoken surprised me so much that there were actually people who've never tried such a game for the first time and soon after enjoying the game.

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the 5 years of waiting for the Fantastic Frontier update will be worth it

im so happy you decided to add pilgrammed. its such an amazing game, but due to the low player count, one of the only 3 developers decided to quit, which basically killed the game. its so sad to see it go but its such a spectacular game that i recommend EVERYONE to play with how much content it has. pilgrammed was the last game i rlly played on roblox and ive since quit. also ive grown up since ive started playing roblox and i dont rlly have time for videogames anymore. roblox back in the day used to be so much better than what it is now. it’s unfortunate, but thats life. God bless you all❤

Tower defenders used to actually be quite popular for a tower defense game however with a lack of updates and the devs not listening to the community the game was dropped by many to go play other TD games

Blox fruits is a cancer. I got max level and almost everything so I got alot of experience to say. Dont play that shit, its horrible.

As a few comments have pointed out, 7:28 there is a typo. It was meant to say “why underrated games are not popular”

I blame our degenerate gen alpha kid audience for actually playing some of the most raw dog games ever.

Quality is bad, not much I can do, sorry.

i am playing blox fruits only for one piece nothing more

Fantastic frontier is probably one of the best games on roblox rn, easily top 3.

As a pilgrammed player. You should’ve mentioned pilgrammed more. Also they have a pretty good tutorial and have a starter quest to guide you a bit in the beginning.

Bro, i can not find myself enjoying a good game on roblox for more than 30 minutes since steam and other games are just better than simple roblox games

Gambling 💀 vesteria should be popular then.

Play hours. Edit: chill out y’all, I already played those game in the replies.

I feel like there are also some commonly overlooked reason why people flock to the popular games. Generally speaking, unpopular games either don't update often enough, they lack replayability/post game content, aren't beginner friendly/steep learning curve, they graphically look bad/outdated/too minimalistic, or (this is the biggest pet peeve of mine) they force you to use their character/avatar appearance. Like do these devs not realize that perhaps alot of people spend quite a bit on their avatars and would appreciate being able to keep their look ingame?

rip_luffy usernames are gonna be mad at the thumbnail lol

Item Asylum is an RNG game but isnt considered gambling as the items are free to get in private servers (except perfect run items like: Grand Volley and painted sword (the ones i got currently)) And i played gambling games like sols rng and i found myself getting bored easily

I NEVER thought anyone would even mention Starscape on RU-vid if I were to be fully honest. It’s one of my favourite games, but I think the reason it isn’t popular is exactly like you said. It takes so much time to actually progress at all (but that’s not a bad thing). However, six-year-olds don’t have the attention span to actually stay on a game for longer than 20 minutes if it doesn’t have bright colours and stimulating visual effects/loot boxes.

Keth should be given an award for making one of the best optimised game on roblox (some guy played starscape with 100 players in Gatinsir. Keth started blowing ships up with his spectator-X and he only experienced some lag)

Vesteria has really been putting in the work lately. Much better work and transparency with the playerbase now

I am a game developer who always creates unique games that do not fall into the categories you mentioned earlier. I prioritize my creativity over popularity and I am willing to pay developers to help me achieve my vision. I believe that the Roblox community's strict rules against gambling and the focus on specialization are the reasons why good games often go unnoticed. Players are more interested in popular categories rather than unique and creative games. However games like My Hero Academia Battlegrounds might not good and got many dislikes because of the priority to take down anime adventures. Also please please it's not my fault if the game was not that good or either too lazy. Two reasons is that I have school and second I still don't know how to script like a pro.

Im just so annoyed at how starscape never took off, imagine if it had a full fledged team of developers working full time on it.

Nice! I like how you made your opening concise and relatable; I’ve definitely been there endlessly scrolling for a decent game! Nowadays I don’t even bother to play, only checking out phantom forces from time to time.

some people find these known games fun and some people dont for example i love fps and fighting games and my friend loves sim games.maybe i love blox fruits but my friend doesnt,thats fine its his choice and maybe he loves some game with 100 players active but i dont,thats also fine bc its my choice my point is that someone loves bla bla bla types of game and the other loves blah blah blah types of games but the roblox community loves these specific popular game everyone cant love the same type of games bc then devs will only make th same types of game. if everyone loves fps games roblox would be an fps game.but if most people love sim games and most other people love fps and other people love fighting.The site will be balanced

I play a survival game called prior exctinction.its basically a realistic dinosaur survival game. It is by far the best graphics and models i’ve ever seen in roblox, and yet it only gets an average of 800 players

Back in 2017, I used to think Bee Swarm Simulator was one of the worst games in the popular section, now with the amount of thrash boring games there is it's probably one of the most decent and I pretty much only play this game lol

i was not expecting Pilgrammed there, you are a good man

Cuz thats because we have a thing called opinion

I played Fantastic Frontier once or twice, didn't like it, I did end up liking games like Starscape, Arcane Odyssey, and other (not as good but still great) games though

Hexaria is rly good but it's so irritating to grind on bandits for 20000 hours before actually being able to not die to a singular wizard in the 2nd world

I spent $160 on blox fruits in one day. Not saying this to brag, because I regretted it immediately. I don't even play that game as much as I do other games. All for some permanent fruits that a friend said I should buy. So I bought them, then grinded to the final sea where my friends were. That game is so boring. You sit there clicking the same buttons over and over. Completing the same missions over and over. The same could be said for most games on roblox today.

Decaying winter

Imagine this: You may choose to either play the first game or the second, both about mathematic The first game only require addition and multiplication skill, and you get coin easily. But the second? There's no such thing as currency here, there are only badges and achievements. Furthermore, to be good at the second game, you actually have to learn mathematic and spend time in it. The game guide and encourage you to learn about things such as functions, domain and range of functions, geometric constructions and proofs, derivitive and integration in calculus, linear algebra, introduction to real analysis, number theory, groups, rings, and fields, algebraic system(or galois theory) functional analysis, topology and metric space, just to name a few with the order of study. This takes a lot of time, and of course, the problems are quite challenging. However, the second game is miles more enjoyable. Why? Welp, the first game only provide momentary satisfaction, but it won't provide player anything meaningful. The second game is totally different, it actually provides player motivation for learning, broaden player's world view, and let player leaves with something useful beyond the enjoyment and sense of satisfaction. For instance, a game that talks about a story is not that interesting and meaningful(although its still miles better than those popular games on roblox somehow), but if the story contains a small portion of those fundamentals of intellegence that you will see in Shakespeare plays(such as Legend of Heros), or a meaningful life experience, thats completely different, and this is part of what makes a game great. Of course, a game don't have to be great, being decent or playable is alright. But there's the flaw, are games on roblox today actually playable(this statement is only for those gambling afk games)? At least I won't call leaving a computer running 24/7 without even having the most negligible involvement or thinking 'playing' a game(no meant for harm or hostility, I am just providing my opinion). All i want to say is that, the type of game that is popular reflects what the society of that period is like, afterall: Anything made by human is itself a game of humanity. Also, just an extra seemingly unrelated thing. Many people living in modern age cares too much about gaining and losing and etc, playing game is suppose to be entertaining, but where are the entertainments in those game now? Entertainment is to let people relax and reflect on the content(such as the plot and meaning of the story, the solution to a question, potentiao solution to a proboem we face, or historical significance and reasoning behind a historical event, etc). But many of the game today? They focus on luring players toward darkness, a region of the ocean in which the force of wave points whirlingly inward. They won't provide light and hope to players, they deprive them from players. For one would never be satisfied by those momentary satisfaction, they will only left the pain of losing it in their memory, and devote for it to return, and become willingful to be trapped inside the cage which they created themselve. Hopeful those problem and issues will vanish in the near future.

I wanted to play star scape but i’m mobile me when i knew that:sadness😢

99 percent of gamblers quit right before there big win

What is wrong with blox fruits

there's also another super underrated game i've been playing a lot. it's called running from the internet (abbreviation, rfti), it's a game of where you have to hit the enemy with different weapons (similar to arsenal but it's much more fun) and there's lots of maps and game modes. some of the game modes are (king of the hill, players vs players. players vs bots, free for all (abbreviation ffa) which is i think all? but i'm not sure.) it doesn't have much gamepasses that people are interested in, (nor do they use it) people are more focused on being first, being the one who won the game. there is also a practice area of where you can practice to play the REAL game. much much people don't know about this game (it's better than paintball and arsenal combined). the max players this game gets is up to 290. this game has been my favorite for a year. i've never really gotten bored of it. now being first isn't always what's in most of the player's mind. they just want to play and have fun in a game they like. i so recommend rfti. theres also dingus which is also super underrated (i explained about it in a different comment)

Fantastic frontier was an actual good game, the main issue that made it have not many players is how hard is early game in special for melle classes. It could have been solved if there was block or dodge to help player deal with enemies easier

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 *🎮 Popular Roblox games often prioritize simplicity and engagement tactics like loot boxes over quality gameplay.* 01:57 *💰 Loot box mechanics in popular games exploit psychological tendencies, leading to addictive behaviors and profits for developers.* 04:19 *🧠 Games with dopamine-inducing mechanics attract players, potentially masking subpar gameplay.* 05:30 *🔁 Trading mechanics in games can foster unhealthy obsessions and contribute to addiction.* 06:23 *🎯 Low complexity in popular games facilitates engagement with predatory monetization strategies.* 07:33 *🛠️ Complex games often suffer from inconsistent updates and optimization issues due to small development teams and limited resources.* Made with HARPA AI

I would say the exception to the rule is Item Asylum, that game is truly amazing while at the same time being popular

Mega Mech should also count as an honorable mention for underrated games, because the devs poured their money, hearts, and souls into making a game that is visually stunning and has decent progression. Their situation is exactly like Starscape's in that they unfortunately actively lose money and fail to retain a lot of players. Definitely look into it.

Starscape, my beloved. Thank you for acknowledging this masterpiece. Seeing the only game that *I personally* find fun is somewhat satisfying (i have been playing games on steam because roblox is kinda bad nowadays) Ngl starscape’s gameplay is kinda similar to Albion Online

Roblox isnt boring its just you miss your old friends and friends are the players who make you feel roblox is a good game but most of my friends quit and some play boring games or blox fruits sea 3 im sea 2 or other friends priv

I think there is a case that loomian legacy is actually a really good game, sure it can be not very f2p friendly but it is still great for a pokemon like game you can play for free and the pvp is just so good imo it is so satisfying when you sweep the entire enemy team.

Zombie Rush has stood the test of time. I’m honestly surprised nobody talks about it enough. To me, it’s still in the top 10 of one of the best games on Roblox. It’s pretty simple, not too complicated, and still gets frequent updates. It’s not as big as it was back in 2017, but it still gets a good amount of players. Again, I’m honestly surprised as to how it doesn’t get talked about enough. I’m honestly happy the devs have stuck around after all these years.

As a retired Vesteria player. I'm still waiting for Badland update to revive the game.

Hexaria was ruined by greed and no lifes ruining the market by grinding too much.

Not having mobile support is also a big thing smaller games miss

blox fruits has the worst devs ever

Fun fact pilgrammed used to be a popular game it used to average around 10 to 23k players on its release the reason why pilgrammed died out is that if you did everything beastiary mirrors etc there wont be anything more to do

1:12 dude tysm for mentioning pilgrammed its like my fav game but update schedule is bad

this makes me remember that two days ago, i was checking for random games, clicked one game and decided to check on its "recommended experiences". i only found skibidi brainrot games and all were above 85% of the like ratio now, im not trying to say that people who make those games are bad, but what i also thought about after watching this was that if there is a trendy character in the internet where like 80% of the fans are kids, they will just put that popular character in their thumbnail or make a game focused on it (and some lack effort). and we seen it with digital circus and grimace shake (mostly on simulator games) just wanted to point out a pattern that i see

shadovis deserves more players honestly

as a Vestaria enthusiast i am very sad it didnt make the cut

Fantastic frontiers is a great game I wish it was still popular today. W video

I wholeheartedly agree that the more underrated games struggle especially with initiating new players. Arcane Lineage, for example, not only has a very irregular leveling system that wouldnt be intuitively easy to figure out at all for even seasoned rpg players, but it also features quests that dont even tell you the objectives you need to complete. While there is a tutorial npc, he is also unmarked and could be potentially missed when you spawn in due to his positioning relative to the player. The devs put in time to make pretty interesting game design decisions, but they fail to make basic additions that most games have been doing for decades, and that most mindless and predatory games are excellent at doing. Especially with how simplostic they are to learn by comparison.

if im gonna gamble my time and money away in a game at least let me play with the thing i just got instead of just stare at it...

i used to grind a lot of hexaria and i loved the game. the only prblem i have with it is after a while its more just repeating the same op strats on bosses to get more op cards used in more strats with more bosses. its also very grindy with low drop chances and very hard for solo players as most of the bosses are near impossible

I'm glad doors atleast got the recognition they deserve and gives me hope I hope more awesome games like that gets the recognision like doors did

Fantastic Frontier is one of the best games on roblox but we dont play it anymore due to its not geting updates

5:50 not just tower defenders is better than ttd, EVERY SINGLE TOWER DEFENSE GAME IS BETTER THAN TTD

bro your content is actually so interesting and well thought that it healed my attention span

Deepwoken is an exeption, it has over 10k players active daily

People who still play Hexaria 👇

Starscape gang here. Dont worry guys just 1 more keth mont till player stations

Good video man. Video idea ive never seen before, sure its prob already done but i havent seen it (may not be done before) but its a very good video

arcane odyssey also deserves a spot

Bro uploaded after 1 year💀

Nah Tower Defense Simulator better than Tower Defender ( Tower Defense Simulator not very popular )

its nice that starscape is getting noticed atleast a bit, thanks for making this video