Roblox is a treasure trove of fun for both kids and parents, from meme rooms to intricate worlds. If you’re a parent and would like to join in o the fun, we can help. In fact, we’ve gathered the best kid-friendly Roblox games you and your kids can play together!
20. Adopt Me!
Remember the days of Neopets? Do you remember what it was like to care for your virtual pets? Well, Adopt Me! is like a spiritual successor except with less HTML and more 3D models. The whole game is built around caring for pets as well as players, though the vast majority of the community focuses on pets and trading.
It’s really good at giving children a sense of responsibility. Pets need to be bathed, fed, played with, taken to school, taken to the doctor’s when they’re sick, even put to bed. This helps them grow, which is very important for combining the same kind of pet to create colorful ‘Neon’ and ‘Mega-Neon’ pets. Adopt Me! is simply a very chill game that has no goal but the ones you set.
19. World Zero
MMORPGs can be a great source of social interaction, not to mention many instances where you need to problem solve. Luckily, World Zero doesn’t require a subscription to play and features a lot of content for you and your kids to play.
The fun comes from all the different kinds of classes you can play, each with their own unique abilities. At the same time, there are quests to complete, dungeons to conquer, pets to raise, and dozens of enemies to fight. You can do this all as a group, too. And the best part? World Zero doesn’t feature any kind of blood, but keep in mind you can wield swords, axes, and the like.
18. Guess the Drawing!
Guess the Drawing! casts a wide net most drawing games don’t on Roblox. Neither you nor your kids need to have any talent for drawing, just imagination. Every round one person draws an image (based on a prompt given), and the other players have to guess what the picture is.
Come to think of it, Guess the Drawing! is a lot like Pictionary. It’s fun to draw a picture that’s just vague enough that it isn’t obvious, but still gives others a fair chance at guessing correctly. You want to, anyways; the more people who guess correctly, the more points everyone wins, including the artist. And if someone thinks they’re really funny and wants to troll, you only need four people to boot them out of the server.
17. Piggy
How about something thrilling and scary? In that case, you want something like Piggy. It’s essentially a game of cat-and-mouse, but with a murderous pig that hunts its victims. Piggy can be a lot of fun, especially when you have a few kids that can help one another survive.
Piggy is simple: Piggy (and a few other murderous creatures) chases a group of players. If Piggy catches up to you, then you’re dead, so you’ll want to find places to hide, like a vent. To win, you and the other survivors have to unlock the door using a series of items and keys. The hardest part is outsmarting Piggy when they’re being controlled by an actual person!
16. Natural Disaster Survival
It’s ridiculous just how simple Natural Disaster Survival is, which makes it all the more fun. Every round, a random natural disaster will occur and all you have to do is survive. The rounds are quick, making it the perfect option when you and your kids don’t have a lot of time to play Roblox.
Natural Disaster Survival has a wide variety of natural disasters, too. You might be forced to the roof of a house to avoid a flood or tsunami or seek shelter during a meteor shower. There are even some fun easter eggs you can find on some islands, such as a space rocket that actually lifts off (but somehow manages to almost always blow up or fall apart).
15. Build to Survive!
There’s a surprising amount of kid-friendly monsters floating around the internet, like BanBan and Huggy Wuggy, among others. Your kids could probably rattle off a few you’ve never heard of, assuming your kids are plugged into the internet to some degree. Build to Survive! takes advantage of so many recognizable faces and pits them against the player.
The fun of Build to Survive! is its combination of Minecraft-like build and the terror of being chased by monsters, from Baldi to Five Nights at Freddy’s. You can create some rather elaborate fortresses too, nor are you completely defenseless, either. Using the coins you earn from defeating monsters, you can buy weapon upgrades!
14. Hide and Seek Extreme
SharkBite is a lot like being in the movie Jaws, but your kids likely won’t get that reference. So, when you suggest playing SharkBite with them (assuming they haven’t already), just tell them you have to fight a shark. You and your kin will be armed with a boat and weapon of your choice.
In fact, you can also tell them they can be the shark, too! At the start of each round, a random player is chosen to be the shark. As a survivor, you’ll have to whittle the shark’s health down to win. As the shark, you have to be sneaky, deliberate, and leave no survivors behind.
13. Welcome to Bloxburg
There are plenty of games on Roblox that are short and sweet. Good for a few minutes of fun, then it’s onto the next experience. Then there are games like Welcome to Bloxburg that get better the more you play. That’s all routed in how it’s designed.
Welcome to Bloxburg is essentially a Sims-like Roblox game. You live in the virtual world of Bloxburg alongside other players. There are jobs to fulfill, quests to complete, fun activities, and, most importantly, money to earn. You can then take that money and build massive homes, right down to the walls and carpets. In Bloxburg, there’s no end to your imagination!
12. Rainbow Friends
At first glance, Rainbow Friends sounds like a jolly, happy-go-lucky game, but you’ll quickly find out it’s anything but. Instead, you’ll be left trying to survive an abandoned amusement park, inhabited by bizarre creatures each embodying a different color. Some might be cute, but they aren’t interested in giving hugs.
It’s not enough to hide inside your box; every monster has strengths and weaknesses. For example, Green is blind, but is attracted to noise, so even if you hide in a box, he can still get you. Meanwhile, Blue likes to wander about, but he’s kind of dumb and will immediately forget you’re there if you hide in your box. The fun of Rainbow Friends is learning the trick to evading each creature!
11. Fashion Famous
What if you like the sound of Royale High, but not so much the high school roleplaying aspect? Well, in that case, you and your kids might like Fashion Famous. It focuses entirely on fashion, but on a somewhat competitive level, though it’s rarely taken seriously.
Fashion Famous is divided into rounds, and each round has a theme. The purpose of the theme is to find an outfit to match, which culminates into a fashion show that every player votes in. It’s totally up to you if you want to participate; in fact, you’ll find that only a fraction ever do. Many players will instead be as goofy as possible. Personally, it’s more fun when you ignore the theme!
10. Insane Elevator!
Piggy is only one of many spooky games on Roblox, and is certainly among the better ones. However, it does tend to get stale if you play it too often. If you need a break from Piggy, then we highly suggest trying out Insane Elevator. It has a similar premise, though on a much smaller scale.
Here’s how it works: You and a bunch of survivors ride an elevator to a series of different floors. Each floor houses a different monster, like Siren Head, aliens, Cartoon Cat, even Piggy makes an appearance. The goal is to simply survive, which you can do by finding a good hiding spot or using a series of items like Rocket Boots!
9. Scuba Diving at Quill Lake
When it’s absolutely dreadful outside, your kids miss out on exploring the outdoors. So, when they’re trapped inside, Scuba Diving at Quill Lake can be a really fun and relaxing way of bringing some of the sense of exploration.
The premise is simple: you and your kids go diving in Quill Lake for treasures. Many are incredibly well-hidden, which definitely adds to that sense of discovery and accomplishment. However, you can only hold your breath for so long, but you can extend that through upgrades and equipment. You do this by selling the treasure that you find, and with enough cash, you can even unlock new areas!
8. Work at a Pizza Place
What kid doesn’t love pizza? Better yet, what kid wouldn’t run their own pizza place? You and your kids can make that a reality by playing the aptly named Roblox game, Work at a Pizza Place. How you play is exactly how you’d expect; it’s right there on the tin.
You, and others in the server, help one another take orders, cook pizza, box them, and even deliver the delicious food to customers. Personally, delivering pizza is the most fun since you get to zip around in a vehicle. Best of all, you’re secretly teaching your kids the power of cooperation and teamwork.
7. Shrek in the Backrooms
Ever heard of the Backrooms? It’s a creepypasta revolving around the idea that someone can “clip” through reality into a place called the Backrooms, a seemingly endless series of rooms and levels. Shrek in the Backrooms takes the creepiness of the Backrooms and gives it a twist: Shrek, and many other related characters, will chase you.
Is it stupid? Yes. Is it silly? Absolutely. Is it wacky? You bet, but darn it if it isn’t a good time and just the kind of silliness kids gravitate towards. You can find traps to defeat the entities, find crafting materials to make weapons and figure out various puzzles to travel deeper into the maze.
6. BIG Paintball!
Paintball can be a dangerous sport, one that children are typically barred from playing. Fortunately, there’s always the next best thing: BIG Paintball. Sure, pixels can’t replace its real-life counterpart, but it’s still a lot of fun, no one gets hurt, and best of all, it’s free.
What BIG Paintball has that real-life paintball doesn’t have is the vast number of weapons you can pick from. You’ve got the traditional paintball gun, SMGs, hand cannons, and even dual-wielding pistols. Additionally, BIG Paintball brings a bit of Call of Duty into the mix by having killstreaks like drones, sentries, and a nuke!
5. LOCOfficial
If you’ve never introduced the card game UNO to your children yet, now’s the time. Unfortunately, Mattel isn’t afraid to throw its weight over UNO games on Roblox, but developers are crafty people. And that’s how you get a game like LOCOfficial.
It has similar rules to LOCOfficial, but with a greater variety of cards. The best part is all the different game modes you can try out, one of which is a team mode. That’ll let you and your kids play as a team rather than against one another.
4. Prop Hunter Heroes
Prop Hunt Heroes isn’t your average, everyday game of hide-and-seek. In fact, I’d argue it’ll be the most unique version of the game you and your kids will ever play. Rather than simply finding a place to hide, you get to turn into various objects around the map.
Sounds fun, right? It is! There’s something incredibly satisfying about outsmarting the Hunters after cleverly disguising yourself as a seemingly normal table. You also feel a great sense of tension when they’re near, but if you keep your cool, you’ll fool everyone.
3. Epic Minigames
There are plenty of Roblox games that rotate minigames, but most of the time you’ll see the same ones after playing just a few times. Epic Minigames is the exact opposite. It has so many minigames to play (128, to be specific), you’ll rarely see the same game twice. It isn’t just quantity, either—Epic Minigames has quality, too.
Most of the games you and your kids play together end up being a ton of fun, and they’re very short so you can play a bunch if you don’t have a lot of time. And with the coins you earn from playing, you can purchase pets, effects, titles, and cosmetic gear!
2. The Wild West
Roleplaying games are amongst the most popular genres on Roblox, especially fantasy RPGs. It came as a surprise when an RPG set during the harrowing days of the American frontier bloomed on the site. Considering everything you can do in The Wild West, it totally makes sense.
The Wild West let’s you decide how you want to approach the American frontier, and commit to the role. That’s where the fun is. Maybe you chose the life of a miner and couldn’t make a living, so you turned to robbery. Or perhaps you were an animal hunter and found hunting people, as a bounty hunter, was far more lucrative. The choice is yours!
1. Roblox Studio
Okay, maybe we’re cheating here with Roblox Studio given that it technically isn’t a game. Instead, it’s the toolset that every Roblox fan uses to create their very own experience and, if they so choose, to publish it for others to try. And hey, you can test it while it’s in development, so you end up playing it after all.
It’s awesome that Roblox gives its users such an extensive suite of tools to craft their own game, and it isn’t all that difficult to learn, even for kids. Many of the available assets can be plucked from the menu, some of which already have functions baked in. You and your kids can collaborate with one another and create something fun, meaningful, or just plain silly.
What’s particularly great is that, as your kids get more comfortable with the UI, and after a few tutorial videos, they can transition into programming and coding, which Roblox also allows. It’s quite an educational experience, so if your children have an interest in game development, Roblox Studio is the perfect place to start. And it’s free!
If you took notice, the best Roblox games you and your kids can play tend to revolve around teamwork, creativity, and expression. And despite these games also requiring varying levels of social interaction, Roblox is still safe for kids. In fact, it’s the perfect opportunity to teach them internet etiquette, as well as what toxic behavior looks like.
Published: Feb 27, 2024 05:13 am