Why 'Underrated' ROBLOX Games Aren't Popular

Today I am showing you the reason why your most favorite underrated games are not popular!

📱Links

🎵 Music (in order)
Kirby Star Allies OST - Green Gardens
DOOM Eternal OST - The Only Thing They Fear is You
Kirby Triple Deluxe OST - Masked Dedede
Gerhard Narholz - Town Talk
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Anime OST - Objection!

❓Misc Info
I do not own any music nor any rights to them, unless stated otherwise.
Copyrighted content may be removed upon the request in Discord DM's (viberbread) or via Email request.

[UmaycallmeVirus]

i know that video dont need that but,
Start - 0:00
Reason 1 - 0:20
Reason 2 - 0:58
Reason 3 - 1:20
Reason 4 - 2:05

00:03:16, 467 - 3:38

[RobTosPro]

I've noticed a recent trend with some of these popular roblox games (blade ball) having dedicated servers to afk in, which just exploits Roblox's algorithm into recommending them further and stealing the spotlight from games that deserve it. It also exploits premium payouts.

[GlitchedHAL]

Not only was this video incredibly informative and entertaining, it did NOT last 15 minutes for no reason!
You could have stretched it endlessly like any other youtuber, but you chose not to.
Thank you SO much

[mcchikin]

The genre filter was probably one of the best ways to find content that you were interested in... but they removed it back on October 26, 2017. However, the feature could have a return in the future since a Roblox Staff member mentioned it in a reply from a dev forum back on March 11 of this year.

[british]

I must say, this is mostly an issue roblox can rapidly ammend.For example, in metaverse champions and past egg hunts there was a vast amount of games thattl weren't very popular which were very high quality, some of which i still play to this day and many games purely due to these events are still fairly popular and get frequent updates.

[tsaroftheunion]

Roblox could easily fix this by setting up an algorithm that caters to the individual player like other social media platforms, so people who genuinely enjoy these passion-made and interesting games can better find these smaller games.

It's not as great as other solutions but in my opinion and experience, it's much better to attract people who genuinely enjoy the genre rather than just any random 9 year old.

[chillbizz]

It is the sad truth..

Good games get screwed over because Roblox hates actual games because they don't rake in and hook as much players as games that are so damn simple get 1000s of players

and the worst about the actually good games is that they are mostly unplayable due to lack of a player base..

[emaster]

as someone who joined Roblox in around 2016, watching a the platform crumble was devastating to say the least. it makes me upset that so many underrated games get thrown under the bus, one of my favorites being Dummy’s vs Noobs. it’s the only game I really actively play now, as it has very good replay ability. it’s a difficult wave based co-op shooter, so maybe you should check it out if your bored some time.

[randomidk]

I think one of the most important things are updates and tutorials. If the game is not updating much, or it takes long for it to update - people will leave and play something else until the game updates. Or the lack of the tutorial, if the game looks too hard to play with unexplained controls, newer players probably would leave. The best example of these 2 reasons is the game called HOURS, it is discontinued, and has little to no tutorials. Also following the reason you gave called "microtransactions" where more gamepasses = more players, this game in particular has only 2 gamepasses and only 1 of them unlocks literally the other half of the game, the other one is just a donation.
Edit: Playing some older games i played, i found one that will keep my attention endlessly, which is Survive The Night (STN for short ) the game is basically hide and seek, except theres dozens of action. It has everything you mentioned: Competitiveness, multiple microtransactions and others. However, the game has max ~500 - ~200 players online in it, it used to have 3k or 1k. The reason to me is unknown, maybe its because it could be boring but yet still even after you died you can still play the game as a ghost with their unique abilities. One of the reasons might be is the game is way too sound reliant, like hearing breathing, heartbeat or footsteps. So yeah, + 1 game into this list.
Edit 2: Have you ever played tower defense games? Maybe TDS or tower battles? Theres 1 game which had 500 players active and more, but now its forgotten. The game is Tower Defenders ( or Realm Rush ). The reason why it is not being played is the difficulty of being a solo player. While playing solo, you can only get 3 tower slots and 1 ability slot, but while being a co-op player, you can get max tower and ability slots. Other than that, there's a unique PvP mode, where you xan send in-game enemies to fight eachother with another team, basically Plants VS zombies except its zombie only, it has a lot of microtransactions, like dreamshards ( the main currency of the game ), some gamepasses and meme towers. Solely the reason why its not being played like it was before is the tower slots and ability slots problem i said before.

[hopelessspaghetti]

If your a military guy and a navy guy too then Dead Ahead is a great game. It takes place in an alternate universe where 2 nations, The Anteres Imperium and The Orion Republic are at war and you are a crewman stationed at sea with a bunch of other people. Really cool game with a bunch of game modes and cool mechanics.

[-_World_-]

I’ve had this exact question for such a long time and it genuinely sucks that some developers put so much effort and time and money just to never get the success that they deserve just because they don’t appeal to the major audiences

[byzled]

As a solo game developer, most of the visits and revenue come from my friends that know about the game, sure it might not get visits, but it's satisfying enough seeing how people like the work I spend so much time on.

[BakaMitaiGuy]

Great video, like always, there's a video called "Why we let mediocre games succeed and quality projects fail" that goes into a bit more detail, pretty sure most people saw it already but just incase
And another thing what are some heavily underrated games that you think people should play (ones that get maybe below 100 players, since tbh most people repeat the same few games if not for the restriction)

[bigolnoob]

There are other underrated games with quite the talent:
- Monster Islands (literally made only by one of the three devs of Epic Minigames.)
- HOURS (also made by one person, not much but holy shit the game is well made, he's moving to Steam for more potential.)
and many more that i'm yet to list.

[Didntknowdidask]

I noticed that during the pandemic, most games I know that are underrated spiked in popularity. Games like Project stardust, Dead Ahead, Town and Decaying Winter reached 2k or more players. But nowadays they only have 50+ active players, barely alive.

[Mia-byhx]

i was just mindlessly searching on roblox for underrated games until i found your channel (the first one that appeared to me) and after just one video i immediately subscribed. The channel is really good and so underrated, honestly i don't think i found a better youtuber who's good at explaining at this short amount of time, keep up the content i think that you'll probably get the attention you need

[adamv]

how does this guy only have 9k subs? this video was exceptionally well made, straight to the point, and has done everything extremely well. definitely a sub lol

[SkateboardFromPhighting]

Here’s some unrated roblox games:
- Phighting
- Ragdoll Universe
- The Flappy Men
- State of Anarchy
- Bullet Frenzy
- Neon Knights
- Demise of Eden

[InfinityBS]

Really great to see Centaura getting featured in these videos, I was able to see Centaura improve with every update from start to finish and I must say it has come really far.

[Xolpho]

Another reason is roblox's categories and recommendations. They only recommend people front page games, not one's that they like, which just makes the actually good/underrated games hidden even more. Most of the categories are just repetitive too.