I sort of have a love-hate relationship with this game.

Truth be told this game was pretty much my life between 2010 and 2014 (as well as 2015 and 2016 to some extent) and I pretty much grew up with it. To this day I still feel like it had a major impact on my life with some of the people I met and am still friends with now, plus my interest in gaming and content creation to this day. I also do really think it provides a good gateway for kids to get more into game design and have a social platform of some sorts (even though the community is pretty questionable sometimes). People have made some pretty impression stuff with ROBLOX, with some games like Phantom Forces and Adventure Forward not feeling too far off from most A-tier indie games.

That said, I feel like ROBLOX itself has sort of fallen into line with a lot of modern mobile games on the corporate aspect with the amount of microtransactions and sponsorships this game has gotten. I kind of get it - obviously with all the servers and games being hosted there does need to be money, but it's definitely become noticeable even with some of the individual games on the platform having microtransactions and stuff like that. Plus I feel like there's been a lot of features that I did like that have been removed from the game over the years - probably the most notable one for me being PBS games alongside voxel terrain, which for me allowed for a lot of fun just building with friends in real-time.

I'll give it a 5 because of nostalgia tho