Since the past year, it reached in total 30k visits.
With a average of 3 concurrent players. I then retired and stopped developing.
However, today I decided to check in and behold.
300 concurrent players and 100K visits (HOLY SMOKES). This all exploded in the past 3 days.
I wanted to find out why, I had several previous influencers so I checked YT, TT, InstaG, or whatever to see if some famous kid promoted my game, but nobody seemed to do anything.
I checked my game statistics, and home recommendation seem to be the reason, but why all the sudden? Did roblox update how it recommends games? Is there a possibility that a popular kid favorite my game and everybody played it through his profile recommendation?
I simply want a answer or see if I can take advantage of this situation, because im rich and idk why…
I think your game displayed on search results did you sponsor?
If its a sponsored game it displays your game in first results.
If its not sponsored. The issue of this situation is may be: popular player might have favored their game.
Roblox is currently undergoing tests by recommending a wide variety of games to a wide variety of people, mainly children under the age of 13. This isn’t a new thing, it’s just more prominent now.
You could absolutely consider yourself lucky, but players wouldn’t bother with your game if it was bad.
Yea I believe Roblox is changing things, like recommending things to people if it suits the games they play, thus resulting in your game blowing up. Also, could you link the game?
I didn’t expect it to become popular at all and I never advertised the game. This happened in early of August where it mostly blew up, with around 10-30 concurrent players. It is slowly dying though.
I havent sponsered or promoted it at all for about a year now. If it was a influencer, I would have found his video/post by now.
(Edit: since the aftermath explosion, some small youtubers made a couple of videos, one reached 5k views from a 1 million sub YouTuber, I dont think that really counts though.)
I dont think it has to do with my game. Why does my game explode in 3 days compared to the previous 400 days it was launched and I reinvested my R$ into ads and barely survived. I let the game slowly die for a year and now around September 7th it blowed up with players.
I also checked other platforms for influencers, nothing pops up.
After a bit more digging, I think this is the solution here.
It stated
“Since then, we’ve updated our recommendations system to better surface experiences that drive deeper engagement and reduce clickbait”
This announcement seems to fit in why my game is suddenly popular in home recommendations. My game had good engagement, but I didnt have a large number of players, or funds to promote it. Most likely, an update in the system gave my game a chance to be seen.
Roblox probably surfaced it through their new categories (featured, recommended, picks for you.) I would update the game to try to retain those players.
This is a very interesting situation. Roblox most likely either changed their algorithm or players caught on to your game and started playing it. Good for you regardless though! Congratulations!
