I hope to see a more efficient way of finding certain genres of games that I enjoy, ever since the Horror Genre was removed i’ve found it extremely difficult to find any quality horror games on the platform.
Would be nice to have a section dedicated to Horror like how we have sections dedicated to Obbies & Tycoons.
I’ve read through this thread and I’ve not seen anyone mention something I was thinking about. I’m unsure if this already exists within the “popular” category algorithm:
It would be interesting to have separate recommendations based on your age group, so games that appeal to younger children (6-8, 9-10, 11-12), games that appeal to teenagers (13-14, 15-16, 17-18) etc… Could be far more specific or varied but just not “popular” all in one.
The reason behind this is that far too often I see players driven off the platform (especially my own age group, 16-18+) as all of the games are directed at younger children (10 or under). I’m well aware that Roblox’s main demographic is younger children but it might bring a positive light to the platform if we can see recommendations based on our peers rather than everyone merged into one.
Well, first of all I think that game sorting should be more simplistic and take out the useless sections such as obby because that section is filled with free modeled and have money in mind. Nothing there is original and is is just spammed like for example: “Granny obby Granny Obby Granny Obby” also up and coming is broken since thee are games there that have been popular for months or sometimes years. I saw some people talking about the old genre searching and I think that is a good idea to bring it back since It’s easier to shed light on nw developers that are actually up and coming, I also think that there should be more care about what’s put into these tabs such as roleplay. Jailbreak and madcity are not roleplay games, I’d also like to go off of HeadlessHorror’s idea of
This is also good for the popular tab so people can have more variety based upon their age groups like when people set their birthday upon signing up for an account.
I think it would be nice to have this feature but only with a couple of steps taken to ensure that it doesn’t go wrong. I would want the process to be like this first:
A game is using the wrong tags, what should a Roblox player do?
Report it for misuse of tags
Moderators should review the report and check the game and its tags first
If the tags are misused, the developer should just get a message in their inbox with feedback telling them to correct their game’s tags, with of course a 10-day cooldown in a specific game of theirs to avoid mass-reports. The 10-day cooldown should also apply to the reports
(what I mean is that, if a specific game has already recieved a tag misuse report within 10 days, then the moderators do not need to review the next reports until 10 days have passed since the previous report. I feel that this cooldown can be used to reduce the pressure for moderators.)
Well, maybe the cooldown could be slightly reduced
As some others said, it would be nice to have a sort that is not personalized, new upcoming games, and most of all bring back genre sorting and maybe make a few more new types. And make it so on place/game publish you pick one.
Categories I can think of:
(Current) popular, top earnings, (I can’t think of the others at the moment.
New)
Up coming and or Newly released (basically takes new games that gain traction fast)
Art/showcase
VR if there is any.
That’s all I can think of currently
This is already integrated, the Front page is different for under 13 and 13 & up
As for the OP
Copy Apple’s Appstore game page
My category idea:
VR
There are more and more VR games. But they are hard to find for VR players. This would make it easier for VR players to see the games that are made for VR or VR friendly.
I too would like game genres to be back, not only would it make it easier for Players to find the games they wanna play but it also would help developers so they would have no need to include “RPG” or “Simulator” in their game name for the players to find the game.
My idea is to have a filter option in the Games page where it would show a list of genres, for example RPG, MMO, Horror etc., clicking on one of the genres refreshes the page and only shows the games with the genre the player picked.
When I search for games on steam, I often use the tags in tandem with the search to slim down the results and exclude games I know I won’t be interested in. For instance, filltering out first person shooters.
Not tryna get the tabs too stacked, but a horror tab?
So a Major problem on the front page games is that the recommened thing sort doesn’t fit my games i like and the Major part of the front page is somehow mostly build of the same games i.e:adopt me jailbreak it would be really nice to see that roblox brings up someother games goood games on the front! Just because they are less popular doesn’t mean they are bad!
I know this is just only on the testing base currently but it surely isn’t too hard to do that or?
What qualities are necessary to qualify for the “Players Love” and “Most Engaging” sort?
I really like the idea of giving devs more chances to be in the front page, this is helpful.
I would also like to add More categories, and would also be very helpful to add a check mark into most known games as approved that had many fake clones, which can help especially for the paid games that had more clones which they require more robux than the original one.
I feel like game genres are kind of pointless right now. Currently, they only serve one purpose; which would be simply marking the game. What ever happen to the search by genre filter? Bringing that back would improve game discovery a lot!
I support the idea of bringing search by genre back, not only would this make it easier to find games you actually wanna play but it also would give other games more discovery. For some good games it is very hard to gain players because new comers or even existing players only see the top popular games or top earning, not top rpg or other less popular games, Steam has a search by genre for a reason so its users can find games they wanna play easily.
I would like to have search by game genre back (Genre filter).
Re-add the genre filter but maybe add some like verification to it. One type of verification, this sounds extensive but bare with me, is to add a different like to dislike ratio that is on whether the game is related to the genre or not. This ratio would also have a 2 months requirement for users to vote to prevent botting. Another way is just to have roblox verify it themselves. Either way, the genre filter would be the best thing to add/re-add.
I dont think there will be alot changes but its still a good idea I think this game pages is seems a little bit weird that would be a good update
Genre filter/sorting has been requested many times since its removal long ago. Maybe bring them back?
These would be sorts that would show developers and studios rather than games.
I would feel like a BETA sort sgouor be added, a special sort for BETA members of Roblox, for a certain time BETA members can have there games up there, it would give a good boost and chance for some developers.