Hello everyone! I have been feeling terrible about how Roblox handles game recommendations. (As I believe this is the issue with games getting popularity and then dying after a month). I will be using my survival game as an example for this and then mention some games that I have seen with the same issue.
This is not intended to be a discussion about games failing, I truly need help with knowing what is causing this issue, mainly in my game.
In 2020 or 2021 I made a post stating “Is my game underrated or is it bad?”, the solutions provided in it did help a bit. (I flagged the old post for removal though)
The Lost Land: A survival game where you have to find resources to survive and progress. Your main objective is to get the best ore in the game and get max level.
Link: The Lost Land - Roblox
→ What can you do in this game?
- You can find food and cook. The game offers you a Campfire, Grill, Oven, Blender, and a Cooking Pot which allows making many kinds of food. (Pizza, Bread, Soup, Pies, Juices, Cupcakes, Cakes, etc…)
- You can craft tools to make your life easier at the time of cutting down trees, mining ores, attacking creatures, and more.
- You can build structures and there is a great variety of buildings. (Your buildings save only in Solo and Private servers)
- You can ride animals using the saddle. (Horses, Scorpions, Spiders, Dragons, Dinosaurs, and Elephants).
- You can have pets using the rope. (Allows you to catch animals)
- You can hire workers and they will work for you. (Farmer, Lumberjack, Miner, Collector, and Defender)
- You can craft Armor to protect yourself or even have certain abilities.
- Survive disasters. (Thunderstorm, Earthquake, Meteor Storm, Eclipse, Tornado, Fog, and Volcano Eruption)
- Explore ancient structures and caves. There are puzzles all around that you have to solve to open doors. (When you get nearby to something important a hint pops up to help you)
→ Some Game Stats:
- Average Session Time: 17.89 Minutes
- Player Count: 200+
- Filtered Devices: (It used to be worst with a bunch of other devices filtered but the game was reworked)
- Visits In Term of Months: (April is the spike)
→ Some Game Screenshots:
→ What is the issue?
The game had around 200 players on January 2022 and I stopped updating until March 13. On March 13 the game started increasing in Players out of nowhere and it continued like that until reaching 5.2k Players on April 16. (During the time frame March 13 to July 16 I was working on a huge update for the game).
By June the game had already 1.2k Players left and I decided to give it an extra boost by updating the game with horses. This update boosted the Player Base to 3k Players, but by the end of the week, it started fading out slowly.
By July 16 when I released the rework the game had only 300 Players, it was practically dead and I decided to make a Live Event. The live event literally just increased the player base to 400 and after the release of the huge update, the game remained with 400 players.
As days passed by my game got featured for 4 weeks but it doesn’t even help since the Feature sort is kind of underrated too. Being in the featured sort literally boosts your player base by 200 - 300 which isn’t so much.
However, the game just keeps dying and dying even with huge updates.
→ Other issues:
- Not a single YouTuber with a big audience made a video in my game, in fact, they don’t even have data showing that they haven’t even found out about my game.
- I literally don’t know what caused the increased amount of players when I literally stopped updating the game for 3 months.
- Sponsors and Ads are doing worst than before and you are required to pay even more for you to have “good” results.
- I thought the Roblox algorithm recommends games that earn more money but I compared my game to someone else who has a more popular game and my Robux Per Visit was higher than his. (Denying the hypotheses of Roblox recommending games which earns a lot)
→ How can we help you?
You guys can help me by reviewing the game. Please avoid mentioning the typical solutions of bad thumbnails, icons, UI, style, and confusion, among others. (You can still argue with them but have in mind that the Roblox Player Base doesn’t care about the first 4 at all demonstrated by many front-page games)
Do not mention school as this issue happens even without school being a factor.
Do not tell me to quit and move on because is not the solution, you shouldn’t give up. Second of all, I don’t even know the issue with the current game, meaning the same issue can be committed in the next one I make.
Other games that had a similar issue:
(After my game was having less than 700 players)
- Fruit Juice Tycoon: 15.4k Players and after two months it’s dead just like my game 256.
- Mini Mart: 15.7k Players and after two months it’s kinda dead with 37. (Though looks like there is a new version named Mini Store having 1.6k Players)
I am starting to think Roblox is promoting games and letting them die afterward. It’s honestly really sad to see this because it happens very often. The same issue I think it’s going to happen with nico’s nextbots as it used to have 70k players and is about to reach less than 10k.
My game when it hit 5.2k Players had 340k visits that day. Currently, I am getting an average of 20k or fewer visits daily.
Thank you, focasds.
