Home Children Minecraft and Roblox: The digital playground of today’s gen Joni Mitchell said it right in her song ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ that ‘ They paved paradise and put up a parking lot’.

Roblox reported 79.5 million DAUs in Q1 2025, an impressive metric of daily stickiness. Minecraft’s last reported MAU was 140 million in 2023, a larger figure but reported monthly, not daily.

Roblox and Minecraft are both immensely popular sandbox games played and appreciated by gamers all over the world. Both have almost the same blocky graphics and an identical playerbase.

Minecraft content creators are migrating to Roblox, a platform for user-generated content, discovering different games and beaming them to kids, potentially making the creator rich in the process.