
It's become common practice nowadays to use a game's concurrent player figures to determine whether or not it's performing well, and if we work by that measure, nothing on Steam has ever come close to a Roblox game called Grow a Garden.
According to Rolimon's, a site that presents all kinds of data based on Roblox, Grow a Garden achieved a staggering new record of 11.1 million concurrent players on 31st May, 2025. This is over three times higher than the current record on Steam — about 3.2 million, held by PUBG: Battlegrounds.
There are about 2.3 million people playing Grow a Garden at the time of writing.
So, what the heck is it?
Grow a Garden is a simple game about planting seeds, growing them, and selling the resulting fruit and vegetables, the goal being to make as much money as you can.
Your crops and plants will continue to grow even while you're offline, so it's a sort of idle game that continues whether you're logged in or not.
Beyond that, updates have brought new plants, pets and egg hatching, weather, mutations, and more.
Roblox released for PS4 back in 2023, meaning you can check out what is seemingly one of the most popular games on the planet, Roblox or not, on Sony's consoles.
Of course, it won't be for everyone, but Grow a Garden has clearly struck a chord with many. Given Roblox's audience age skews lower, we can only assume the game is blowing up among younger players.
So, while you probably aren't playing Grow a Garden — perhaps you'd never heard of it — the kids seemingly can't get enough of this thing.
Are you aware of this Roblox phenomenon? Tell us in the comments section below.
[source rolimons.com, via insider-gaming.com]





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Kids are idiots.
@ShogunRok I feel like you summed up the lot of us on this site with regards to live service, gatcha games, and a decent amount of other things.
Some people have more free time than they deserve
Now this is wholesome. Nothing better than teaching a new generation on how to self sufficient by growing food
People with young kids will be unsurprised by this article.
I'm sort of glad I grew up during a period (1992 - 2006) where stuff like Roblox, Fortnite and Call of Duty (what it has become since 2014) didn't really exist.
I feel really old reading articles like these, thanks Push Square! (/s)
No it won't, because PCGamer reported on this days ago and Insider Gaming simply stole the story and now you've stolen what was stolen.
You dont need Roblox to play this game...
Just a few real pots, seeds, and some compost.
Alright. I officially feel old. Thanks, guys.
@N1ghtW1ng (just realized, you beat me to it)
@Dalamar They're called "children" (and absolutely deserve the free care-free time of their lives).
@naruball
You've officially felt old by an article you've recently seen online?
@N1ghtW1ng hello, darkness, my old friend...
@ShogunRok @bluemage1989 Agree with both of you. My kids play Roblox, Fortnite and Brawlstars all day. I keep trying to get them games with stories, but the dopamine doesn't hit often enough. I'll keep enjoying my Clair Obscur and other single-player games.
It's really funny seeing grown adults get mad over a little Roblox game. Yeah, it's not particularly high quality, but it doesn't really seem harmful. And even if it was a high quality Roblox game, even if this game was as quality as something like Elden Ring, you'd still complain and still wouldn't play it.
What I'm saying is, calling children stupid over a gardening game is kinda pathetic.
Back in my day, we watched the grass grow. Then we’d watch paint dry. But first we walked two miles to and from school, uphill both ways.
Kids these days. Pfft.
I'm not going to say Roblox is groundbreaking or anything but it's free/cheap, has co-op, and is easy to access with customization similar to something like a LBP game. I say LBP not because of quality but in terms of how the community works to replicate or parody things with level and character creation. It's far more understandable from that angle.
I'm not really trying to sell anyone on this... just give a bit of perspective. Trust me, I know how easy it is to look at these thick as hell smiley mega bloks and ask "why," but it makes sense. Games with farming already do quite well and here you have a level in an already popular game that you can pretty much open in any browser if you wanted to. Add the fact that everything grows while you're offline and all the other extra's features mentioned in the article and it makes sense why everyone keeps checking back. That'll do it.
Uh we don't live under a rock. Also how many learned about Hydroponics in school? Don't need it digitised to show to kids. Oh wait. XD
Also with all the cosy/farming/gardening, etc. With Roblox, Minecraft, Maple Story etc. type ones & Facebook all in one experience things, like no way was that not obvious.
Plenty of creative engine type games have been around anyway even besides LBP, Game Builder Garage, Project Spark (remember that on Xbox), Minecraft, Mario Maker, Death Stradning/Dark Souls type additions of multiplayer design they offer etc. Roblox is nothing new.
I even played flash game level editors and level/player packs on web browsers. Even map or skate park editors were a thing back in the day.
Of course we know Roblox, COD, Minecraft, Fortnite etc. exist and their sizeable audiences that play them, watch them, etc. Just because the rest of us do our thing doesn't mean we don't hear about it without looking it up.
Or see eshops with it plastered. I mean eshops are the easiest way to tell it's why they make them so people don't have to search for it. Like that wasn't obvious.
Minecraft is my go to and modded it for 10 years. The rest no interest in unless it's COD older entries that's it.
So I get what it's like, I play tech mods anyway, made modpacks of all sorts of categories over the years, but I've also played games from the 90s/00s for far longer too, so I have perspective of both, I fit in the middle and lean more to the older era stuff of quality more but have my modern era experiences at times. I still prefer consoles, had my mobile or flash game of Windows 8/Youtube channel fix eras.
I literally am so focused on things I don't even watch Minecraft videos anymore, why? I literally document mod projects, made forums/wikis. I do that in my spare time for many Datapack/Mod Creators and part of their team indirectly as documentation staff or advertising. Because I do my own thing and no one else wants to showcase them (or mod authors are busy, don't have the equipment, etc.) in videos.
So I did myself or keep to myself and showcase projects or a mix of mods I want to show not the same mods over and over like talking about only AAA games. That's how boring it is in the community space modding or minigames or otherwise no joke.
If I'm going to seek niche mods (the way others do Indie games and I know Indie review channels exist) I do and it's worked out for me to make wikis and experience so many that most will ignore. All the modloaders, all the mod types out there, all the cool ideas and repetitive ones too.
I get the appeal, just no interest at all in the rest of them.
I've seen what can be done even by avoiding the game or when people talk about it in video essays and such. Even Second Life.
But that's the thing, with all the Roblox, Poppy Playtimes and more I hear about them without even experiencing them.
It's like seeing gacha game ads, or any other dating apps, Temu/Doordash storefronts and services, I get them pushed onto me without a single interest in them. XD I don't even have to bother.
When I seek things out myself I do because I want to and none of it gets advertised to me (not that I'd care if it was).
I care about games or music first then anime/manga. So I have things in check of priorities. Not Waifus. Game design first not whatever people showcase with endless possibilities, it has to have weight/value to it. Also I prefer singleplayer not multiplayer either.
I don't have to guess. XD
I’m not surprised kids are playing this on the PS5, because there’s so little else new aimed at a younger audience.
PS5 is really marketed to 18-50 year old men.
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