What is RoCate?
RoCate is a new alternative way to find high quality games on Roblox. It’s basically a better discover page that provides a rich library of high quality games, across almost all genres. Our goal is to not only allow players to find great games easily, but also to allow those developers who don’t get the recognition they deserve to take centre stage.
How does it work?
Games are submitted to our website on our submit page, and then enter a review queue. Then, our expert team of reviewers and quality assurance testers explore the game in depth to see if it matches our guidelines.
Woah! This sounds cool! I have a game I would like to submit, how do I do that?
Head over to our website, create an account, click your avatar icon, and then submit. Enter some basic details, and our API will do the rest (including grabbing icons, thumbnails, etc)! It’s that easy!
Partners
RoCate is brought to in association with @BanTech Systems, a development studio creating interactive games, systems and solutions on Roblox.
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Hello all, I would just like to address an issue with quality on our platform. We’ve been accepting a bunch of games below our standards, so we go past the stage of “you don’t even have many games”. We apologise for this, however as mentioned many times we are in a BETA , and the reason we are in a beta is because we do not have many games and are looking for more games from here. So please stop mentioning that we don’t have many games.
From what I see on this website, there are only a handful of games on it and 70% of the categories are empty. Not a great first impression, lets not mention that every game in it is human picked and everyone has different standards.
From my point of view this is a waste of time and will be forgotten pretty quickly since nobody is gonna bother to check another site for roblox games when they simply can go to… roblox
The only thing that would actually make this project interesting is if you managed to automate this and rotate the games based on user reviews and the daily like/dislike ratio.
Another thing that I dislike is the fact that you have “developer requirements”. One of those requirements is a discord account and to join your server, basically excluding any developer that doesn’t want to use discord or be in your server. You also have a rule stating that developers "must have a clean record (not be involved in any large drama, scammed people in the past, etc). This is in contradiction with what you’re trying to achieve with this project because most players do not care about the actions of the developers, this project is meant to “find quality games on Roblox” so shouldn’t you be judging the game and not the developer?
This idea has been tried in the past multiple times and, afaik, all of them failed.
EDIT: The project was cancelled… this was so unexpected. Well we can now say that RoCate was officially added to the list of “ideas that have already been tried in the past multiple times and failed”
Anyone wants to bet on how soon someone will try doing something like this again and fail?
Neat idea, but this is something that should be done on Roblox’s side of things. This is comparable to that “Discord inside of Roblox” game (RoChat I believe?). Though it may be “cool and useful” it will ultimately be phased out and unused fairly quickly. I find it difficult for this to compete with Roblox’s, a billion-dollar company’s, search engine with the resources they have.
I agree. I would be fine with contacting staff or anything like that, but I prefer to only join discord servers that I plan on talking in at least once a month. I, personally, would use the website for finding games if it had a lot of good ones, as I play Roblox games on occasion but dislike scrolling through all of the “copy paste garbage” and cash grabs.
If it gets popular, though I doubt it will unless they do a good job advertising it to people and getting people to join, then I’ll probably try to register my game on it, too.
This type of website has been made so many times, each time the same kind of replies come. People complaining about not enough games, or how they don’t like the requirements. To be fair, they have a really good point, although I think that this could be good if you decided to handpick a bunch of underrated roblox games and stick them in your website yourself. This way you won’t have empty categories like people above has stated. You can check out this post for a bunch of great underrated games to add to your website. Although it’s not off to a great start this looks promising with the sponsorship of well known groups. You also might wanna not have to make people go through a sign in process, join your discord server, etc. I think that you should simply allow developers to submit any game with no accounts or such, just a basic requirement that the game needs 100 visits. I do know that visits don’t define the quality of the game, but this will lessen the work you have by taking away the free model games(mostly…) You also might wanna check if they have already submitted, by checking the forms for the game, so you don’t have people spamming your forms(if your not already doing this.)
Website design is nice, definitely better than other similar products. I believe once this picks up steam I can be a great platform but as of now, it’s pretty empty.
I don’t really see a point of this. It shows the same game on the front page. I understand that it was just released, but I was expecting more. Like an algorithm that finds underrated, fun games. I also don’t see the point of a login system. It seems like everything is manually added in, which is alright for now, but you should probably change that in the future.
Why does it show the information on the website, when you can just see it on Roblox? Also when you click the Play button, it should automatically open up the launcher, rather than just opening the game link.
The theme of the website is nice. It has smooth animations and images, and the purple and black is visually aesthetic. I definitely see potential with this. Good luck!
Please also provide some constructive criticism instead of just tell us to abandon it. We have put our heart and soul into this project and we seem to only get negative comments.
That’s not all. From my testing, the gamejoin endpoints still check whether the domain of the request was roblox.com before approving launch.
So far, every negative comment on this post has provided some kind of constructive criticism. The reason you receive negative commants is because this resource, although nice, is somewhat flawed. In my opinion, the project seems rushed because there are less than ten(!) games and the UI does not give off the “clean UI” feel in some areas (button transition time, spacing between text and edge of elements, alignment, etc).
As mentioned already, this kind of project has been done countless times already and they all lose traction because of the same few reasons: 1) its an extra step, 2) its not “friendly” - as in easy-to-use for both players & developers, and 3) there is no guarantee for consistency (whether your team will be biased when approving).
Adding on to what someone was saying, maybe you could also just add unsubmitted games from Roblox that are interesting or fun as place holders so the website isn’t empty.
Maybe also having games of the week type things on a discord server with a bot? That would be pretty cool.
We moved; the old post was misleading. As you can see we have updated the post to link to this one. We also took feedback from that post and applied it here.
Update to Guidelines
Following some community feedback, we’ve updated our guidelines so it is no long required to have a discord account to submit your game to RoCate.
