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 ...

Whether all those players should be playing Roblox is another matter entirely, of course, given the game continues to be embroiled in controversy amid ongoing accusations of child safety failures.

Roblox farming simulator Grow a Garden is eclipsing active player numbers achieved by some of the most popular games on across PC, mobile, and console – so what exactly is it?

On Saturday, more than 16 million people were planting seeds and collecting exotic pets within Grow a Garden at the same time. Many were not yet teenagers.

According to third-party monitoring tools, Grow a Garden - the specifics of which we'll get to shortly - soared past 16m concurrent players this weekend on Roblox (16,411,769 to be exact).