Exploring Dead ROBLOX Games

In the timeline of Roblox's history, many trends in popular games have come and gone. Today, I'm going to be investigating Roblox games that once had thousands playing daily, but now struggle to get more than ten players a day.

thanks to delta & tea for helping with the video's script :-)
0:00 intro
0:42 welcome to the town of robloxia (2010)
1:34 robloxity (2013)
2:07 the plaza (2016)
2:46 iron cafe (2008)
3:07 urbis (2014)
3:32 the complex & apartments (2011)
4:05 various Loleris games
4:39 various MaximumADHD games
5:18 various Miked games
6:08 various Uberubert games & the first tycoon games
7:12 survival the jeff the killer (2018)
7:53 zombies are attacking mcdonalds (2008)
8:48 terror in bikini bottom (2014)
9:31 escape before it arrives (2012-ish)
10:06 bloody mary: awake and trapped (2011)
10:23 hospital nightmare 3 (2011)
11:18 the cursed house (2007)
11:53 build to survive the zombies (2011)
12:22 resident evil: build to survive (2007)
12:33 disaster hotel (2010)
12:52 outro

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[victoriouswinner]

Words can not explain how much I love the aesthetic of old roblox, something about it gives me neuron activation. I wish more games tried to replicate its style, shame to see it be replaced by a much more corporate style roblox is trying to enforce

[Changed.User]

Old roblox's "genre" feature was SOOO GOOD, i cannot tell you how many great games I found due to that features.

[Solstice_AC]

I remember i loved exploring old roblox games, it was like seeing ruins of what once was a thriving game

[sleepymangoinc.]

I've been playing roblox for about 10+ years now, so it hits hard to know that some of these games that I actually got to play are no longer popular.

[jacksond]

I really miss The Plaza. It really felt ahead of it’s time with the different stores, mini games, and house design system. I used to eat that game up 😭

[Retroblox]

I remember Hospital Nightmare 3 really creeped me as a kid. Like I vividly remember being really disturbed by it lol. I think it was because I never really saw blood in a Roblox game or let alone any video game I had ever played up until that point. So just the fact that I saw blood, on what's supposed to be a platform targeted towards kids no less, spooked me out. Especially that one dude who got impaled and pinned to the wall lol. I can't help but laugh about it now of course.

[Svettanka]

I think one of the major things that I miss about old Roblox games is how large they were. A few models here and there and maybe some other players were all there was to keep you entertained. Or maybe it's a specific genre, I'm not sure.

[maro]

Old Roblox is simply beautiful, there's no other words to describe it. I remember when I was a child, I used to come back from school and boot up Roblox, playing as a Guest, having so much fun with random people I didn't even knew in person. Back in the days you used to look at the pictures and the title, and you could already tell if the place was awesome or boring. Many things were free, dances, emotes, morphs, items, accessories, you could literally have all of them if you'd want to, and no one asked you to pay first. Of course, Roblox is still a great sandbox game, even though it's targeted for kids, it's still so much fun to just mess around on fun and humorous places, although it makes me sad to see that today's Roblox lacks creativity. At the moment of writing this, there are so many places that are very similar to eachother, either it be a simulator or a clicker or a fan-made place of a fan-made place of a place that's only pay to play. Almost everything you can do in these places are repetitive and boring, actually fun stuff is blocked behind a paywall. Not to mention the community of toxic Tik Tok kids ruining the experience. Of course there are great places on Roblox that everyone should try out, but the number of these places don't count in very high numbers. And the fact that Roblox itself doesn't give a single crap about it's community and allows something like that, while banning actually hardcore fans, it's just depressing to see. I really hope that Roblox opens it's eyes soon and at least tries to go back to the old days, or maybe tries to create something similar to as it was.

[ButtonMasherReal]

Remembering how much I played these games as a kid, and seeing how dead they are now, really depresses me. It's just another reminder of how time marches on and the past gets left behind.

[Zistrius]

I remember the roleplay games where you could morph into different animals and be someone’s pet, they were fun to mess around on tbh.

And although it wasn’t a game, I really miss the forums and the comments you could leave on roblox games, I used to always play medieval warfare and the comments complaining about higher ranked players always made my day.

[Dr.Coffee-Cat]

I recently went back and looked at my favorited games on Roblox, and it was very saddening to see old, empty games I used to play and talk to people on. I also looked at some of my old friends, and when I saw some were last online 9-10 years ago, it just made me even more sad, remembering all of the fun times I had back then.

[natakem]

it’s so insane how i remember so many of the horror games that i have completely shoved in the back of my mind since 2016 or so.

[simplynothing]

It feels so weird to be in something that was once so lively and popular and filled with life, to just be forgotten about and empty.





Edit:
Wholly shit I might actually get to 1K likes tysvm

[ExpensiveAd]

A couple more honorable mentions here (In my opinion)

- Undead Nation
- Survive the End of Robloxia 1 / 2
- Future Tycoon
- Kohls Admin House BC / NBC

Of course there are many more games that were popular in 2010 - 2018 but I figured I'd just mention a few that I remember having fun playing at the time.

[Angelic_Disaster_]

I can't tell you how upset I was to see so many of these classic games taken down honestly, especially games like Disaster Hotel, the Six Flags Great Robloxia game, and also the classic Robloxian Pool which I had a hard time finding so I assumed it was down too from declining popularity.

[rocandplay]

i got a nostalgia blast from watching this, its sad to see great roblox games start to gain problems like the devs being terminated or the game has a lack of updates

[discontinued-channel]

Tbh its actually kind of scary seeing all the games we used to play on Roblox go lifeless and dried out.

[tomesgen]

Exploring Dead ROBLOX Games… RIP to the games

[cheesepuf]

Thank you for this video. Roblox games are unfortunately extremely difficult to archive properly and more and more games are getting lost as time goes on so I genuinely think videos like this are super important to preserve them. I haven’t watched part 2 yet but wanted to shoutout some inactive games I loved, off the top of my head - Dinosaurz Life, Survival: Apocalypse, Survival 303, Survivor 2.0, Build to Survive the Slimes, Llando’s Hide and Seek (not completely dead but on its way out I fear), Pilgrim Islands & Pilgrim Islands Reborn. A huge RIP to every basic building game that would rotate out on the front page too. I miss the building genre a lot

[soupeater]

the plaza & urbis were some of my fav games omg </3 the subway & elevator functionality in the plaza was so revolutionary to me