[OC] Ich habe überprüft, wie viele Personen derzeit in jedem Roblox-Spiel sind. 99,8 % davon sind völlig leer

Methodology

I track live player counts for ~8.5M Roblox games. Right now 99.8% of them have literally zero people in them. Only ~18,800 have anyone at all, just 95 break 10,000 players, and 10 have six figures.

„Empty“ means zero concurrent players in this snapshot, not abandoned, plenty had their moment and emptied out.

Roblox public web API snapshot Jun 8 2026.
Log-scale chart, made with Node + a hand-written SVG renderer.

https://rowatcher.com

So much for the 80/20 rule. Economists hate this one weird trick: data.

Probably because so many (even before AI) games are copy pasted off one another, or made due to some hype that doesn’t last long….so they dont retain players at all

And when a multiplayer(most of them) has 0 players, its very hard just…sitting there, waiting for some else to join

I’d imagine that this graph follows a fairly similar shape to most modern endeavours where digital environments can be created at will and abandoned at little to no cost. Even like spreadsheets or websites and blogs, it would be a similar abandon rate.

A) Interesting data.

B) Label the axes

https://preview.redd.it/ximm4mjktc6h1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=761516ba09f96b21a03a9ca26d8d77ab9ad8d053

Maybe it’s just me, but the log scale isn’t apparent at first glance. So the punchline of the chart is delayed.

I guess the same is for every games store

I want to share some insights, a single user can have a large number of empty games for the following sources below.

Some games are created as redirects from a main game. Teleporting to another place for to do something else before returning to the main game. For example this badge collecting game that consists of you teleporting to other games to do collect badges. These places are empty when the main game itself is empty as no one would teleport there and no one would deliberately search for their game id just to join(unless it’s part of a puzzle solving).

Another are scams/clickbait which first show up on search, then upon joining immediately redirect to another game which isn’t related. So the first would be empty I think.

Then there are games which were once popular but slowly became abandoned due to the lack of updates or became broken as the developer moved on until the game became empty. The creator could’ve left it there for returning players to return to their nostalgia.

there was a point (not sure if it still applies) where people had a game attached to their account called their „place“, so all older accounts account for at least one game made on roblox