Multiple Genres + More Genres

[RefusalMan]

As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to list the right genre for your game.

If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my development experience because I’d be able to give a more specific genre to my game.

My game is a survival game, but I have to put the genre to building because that’s a sub-genre for my game.

If Roblox is able to resolve this, my game is more likely to get recommended to the right audience.

[PeZsmistic]

Just FYI there is an endless heap of various feature requests related to asset/experience tags and genres. Genres on their own in their current state are not particularly useful or impactful, and that you can only have one at a time makes them too rigid. Tags are a much better solution to improving game discovery.

Experience Categories

As a Roblox developer, it is currently too difficult to make it clear to users what kind of Experience our Experiences are. I can make multiple different types of Experiences such as games, social gatherings, applications, educational experiences, etc., or anything else that can be a part of the Metaverse. However, it is currently difficult to let a user know what kind of Experience my Experience is intended to be. For example, if I wanted to make a project that is more like a desktop applicat…

Game tags & user tags

As a roblox developer, it’s currently too hard to present my game to a specific audience. I think a good solution for this would be too look at the platform Steam. Steam has tags that allow users to quickly surf through the enormous database of games on the platform. If you’re unfamiliar, they look a bit like this: [image] Those were taken from FarCry 5. Basically, roblox already has reviews (upvote / downvote) but there isn’t a way to tag a game with user-defined tags. I think this would…

User-defined genre sorts for the games page

As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to scope discoverability of our games to certain niches and genres. Roblox already had a great user-driven genre sorting feature but had it axed for non-issues like “lack of use” and “no way to set a default genre” without a handy replacement. If this issue is addressed, it would improve my development experience because I would not have to compete for discoverability on sorts completely irrelevant to me and I could be more discoverable for users …

[RefusalMan]

I think of lots of the same feature requests as a protest. Roblox shouldn’t stop multiple people from making the same feature request since that just means lots of people want that feature! Which in return should make Roblox think about implementing that feature.

[PeZsmistic]

This divides feedback and makes it much harder for engineers to keep track of everything in one place. Whenever possible, do not make a duplicate unless the old topics are grossly insufficient, or severely outdated that they may not be tracked anymore.

[Reditect]

Roblox, or more specifically one of their teams, is working on this.

Game discovery is fundamentally broken and only getting worse, it needs to be fixed

Hello folks, Roblox search & discovery PM here. First, let me acknowledge and thank you for all the feedback provided in this thread and elsewhere. We are very grateful for such a passionate and involved community. Please rest assured that we hear you and that we are working hard on making Roblox better for developers and players alike. While we can’t respond to every post, we actively monitor the forum and use your feedback to inform our roadmap. We have some exciting changes coming up this y…

Sometime this year, hopefully.

[buildthomas]

@RefusalMan

Roblox shouldn’t stop multiple people from making the same feature request since that just means lots of people want that feature! Which in return should make Roblox think about implementing that feature.

This is not how Roblox browses the devforum – there’s some prioritization going on based on thread engagement. If you have 10 smaller threads with 10 Likes and a few replies, that will not be noticed as fast as 1 thread with lots of replies and 100+ Likes.