Roblox game Grow A Garden is continuing to see massive numbers of players, reaching a new high that’s more than triple the Steam concurrent players record set by PUBG back in its heyday. The Roblox game is a farming-sim-meets-idle-game, but there’s something about Grow A Garden that’s seen it smashing records both on Roblox and off.
After a new update was released for the game–which are officially referred to as “experiences” on Roblox–the concurrent-player number shot to a new high of 11,694,315, Dexerto reports. The Guinness World Records Fandom wiki has Grow A Garden breaking multiple Roblox platform records, including most visits in 10 minutes, most visits in 1 hour, most visits gained in a day, most visits gained in a week, and overall most concurrent players.
To put that in context, the record for most concurrent players on Steam belongs to PUBG, which saw an all-time high of 3,257,248 back when it started the trend for battle royale games. That’s less than a third of what Grow A Garden is seeing on Roblox. To compare to another evergreen battle royale title, Fortnite’s all-time concurrent record is over 14 million–a record Grow A Garden hasn’t beaten yet, but it is surprisingly close to it.
Grow A Garden released in late March, and since then its popularity has eclipsed other popular Roblox games like Dress to Impress, Blox Fruits, and Adopt Me. The game was developed by an unknown teenage developer, but a studio called Splitting Point has now stepped in to manage it.
The farming genre has produced a number of surprise hits before–Farmville enjoyed similar viral success on Facebook over 15 years ago, while Stardew Valley remains popular almost 10 years after it was first released. Grow A Garden’s idle gameplay likely adds to its popularity–players can plant seeds and let them grow while they’re offline, making it an easy game to get into even with little time to play.
