[Update] November 26, 2024
Hi Creators,
As pre-announced in September, we’re excited to share that starting today, you can view and update your experience’s genre and subgenre in Creator Hub.
How it works
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In Settings, you can select one genre and an optional subgenre that will best tell users at a high level what type of gameplay to expect. Once selected, the genre and subgenre will immediately show on your experience’s details page.
- Note: Some experiences may already see a genre picked for them. A trained team of Roblox staff dedicated to reviewing and categorizing the experiences did an initial assessment to test this feature as announced here. You can update your genre if you believe another one fits better.
Creator Hub / Creations / Settings
Users can immediately see the genre on the experience details page
- Trending experiences will also start to show up in Charts under genre-based sorts, such as “Trending in Puzzle”. This may take a few days as Roblox ensures that experiences in these sorts accurately represent their genre.
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We recommend selecting the genre that best applies –– Sometimes there isn’t a single genre that perfectly describes your experience, so we recommend picking the genre that best applies to your experience. This way users can make informed decisions about the content they interact with. Here we’ve provided descriptions for each genre and subgenre to help you make an informed decision.
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Regarding genre changes, we expect that most experiences won’t need to update their genre very frequently if at all. However, for experiences that make significant changes to their gameplay, you can change your genre once every 3 months (see first image).
Keeping genres accurate and relevant for users
We want your experience to be discoverable under its genre, along with experiences that accurately represent that genre. Roblox regularly reviews experiences and may update any genre selections that could appear inaccurate to users and cause them to disengage quickly. If this happens, you will be notified by email, and the change will appear on the Settings page. When Roblox changes your genre, you can appeal the decision if you think Roblox made a mistake.
What’s next
In early 2025, we plan to add a genre filter to the Charts page so users and creators can find more experiences within their favorite genres.
We’re also exploring how to surface more dimensions of an experience beyond gameplay. Genres focus on the core gameplay but we understand that a single genre cannot capture all aspects of an experience, and we’re exploring tags based on your feedback.
Thank you for all the feedback you’ve shared about genres. We are excited to give you the ability to update your experiences’ genre today!
FAQs
What happened to my genre settings in Studio?
- You can view an experience’s genre within Game Settings inside of Studio. If you’d like to update the genre, you can do so from the experience settings page in Creator Hub.
How did Roblox build the new taxonomy? How did Roblox assign the new genres to each experience?
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The Roblox team updated our taxonomy to better reflect Roblox’s unique experience diversity.
To arrive at the latest taxonomy, over the last 6 months, we conducted extensive research about our genre ecosystem through user and developer interviews, surveys, cross-referencing how our content compares to industry standards, and via a dedicated and trained team playing thousands of experiences across all genres. This team also reviewed and categorized the experiences and assigned the best-suited genres and subgenres to the top experiences included in the initial rollout. You can see detailed descriptions for each genre here.
As new types of content emerge and become popular, we plan to keep our taxonomy updated.
What if I disagree with the genre assigned to my experience?
- You can view and update your experience’s genre in Creator Hub once every three months. Roblox may update any genre selections that appear inaccurate, but we will always notify the creator when this happens, and you will be able to appeal.
Can I select more than one genre?
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We understand that some experiences can fit into multiple genres. However, to help users discover relevant content in each genre, we need a primary genre. For example, when a user is on the Charts tab and looks at experiences under genre x, they should see unique experiences compared to what they see in experiences under genre y.
We are exploring how to surface additional dimensions such as themes (e.g., horror), additional subgenres, and aesthetics in 2025.
Why isn’t there xyz genre/subgenre?
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We selected a set of genres that we think best represents content on Roblox today. If you don’t see a particular genre or subgenre, it may not be popular enough yet to have its own category. We’ve also defined genres based on an experience’s core game loop rather than themes, so some categories you might be looking for won’t be available as a genre. We are planning how to elevate themes (like horror) in 2025.
As the breadth of content on Roblox continues to evolve, we plan to update the taxonomy periodically to keep it fresh. We will let you know before we make any changes.
Where is the Horror genre?
- We’ve created genres based on an experience’s core game or utility loop rather than themes or other dimensions of an experience. We know horror content is very popular. However, as a theme, it spans across a variety of genres. We’ll soon share our plan to elevate horror as a theme in 2025. In the meantime, you can find horror content in many other genres such as the Survival, Action, Adventure genres.
What about tags?
- We know a single genre cannot capture all aspects of an experience, which is why we’re exploring tags as a way to express multiple dimensions to complement genres.
When will I see my new genre benchmarks on Creator Analytics?
- Genre benchmarks on Creator Analytics are now updated to reflect the new genres. If your experience currently shows similar experience benchmarks, you’ll continue to see those as they better reflect the other experiences that your users like to play, which can span across genres (see this post).
What are all the genres and subgenres?
- Genres and their subgenres along with definitions can be found here. The taxonomy will be updated over time as we analyze our ecosystem, gather your feedback and as new types of content emerge and become popular.
What happened to the subgenres under Social?
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Based on our initial learnings from starting the new genre taxonomy roll out, we’re combining all of the subgenres under Social because they are currently too small to warrant their own subgenres. Therefore experiences that were previously assigned subgenres: Content Sharing, Communication, Hangout, will now just have the genre: Social.
This should also help avoid confusion with the Social Hangout content descriptor guidelines that were recently published. As any genre grows, we’ll reevaluate and reintroduce subgenres to aid with discoverability.
If your genre is Social, it does not automatically imply any content maturity labels. We rely on you filling out the content maturity questionnaire accurately to assign a content maturity label.
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