What is considered too 'violent' for ROBLOX?

[doggy00]

ROBLOX is widely regarded as a platform for kids, however anyone who uses the website often knows that people of all ages enjoy the experiences on here. I believe parents and guardians should be largely responsible for what kids are exposed to, but when it comes to platforms such as ROBLOX, there isn’t really an ESRB rating for the platform or for individual experiences, so it can be hard to distinguish what is and isn’t allowed since the current guidelines seem pretty flexible.

To get to the point: I’m currently working on a horror project. Many horror genres on ROBLOX use lots of blood in the environment to add to the atmosphere. These aren’t just obscure experiences either, as many of them are or have been on the front page of experiences.

For example, Bloodfest is an amazing experience, and it’s been around for a while, so surely this amount of violence is tolerated on ROBLOX. My main question here is if the experiences with blood and violence do anything specific to make it allowed on the platform, or if this is just allowed in general.

Another example is Realm of the 9 Portals, an outstanding work of art, and one of the few high-quality horror experiences.

I could give more examples, but I think I’ve gotten my point across enough.

At the end of the day, the blood and gore in many of these experiences looks like nothing more than paint splatters in a blocky world, but I just want to make sure I don’t release anything inappropriate to the platform.

Also, no offense to anyone thinking this, but I’m not looking for a “If you think it’s not safe, then don’t do it, or do it on another platform” response, because:

1. I don’t want to unnecessarily limit the horrific atmosphere of my project too severely for no reason beyond believing that it has a small chance of being deemed inappropriate.

2. I want to release the project specifically on ROBLOX for multiple reasons, one of which being because I think the platform has a huge lack of high-quality horror experiences.

[westyboy609 (C17ADEL)]

Your fine, Almost all games have gotten away with a bit of blood splatters. Even this game Combat Warriors - Roblox, Has gore, blood, you can mutilate people and everything. As long as you dont show ‘guts’, Your absolutely within your right and abiding by TOS To make a horrifying bloody experience

[IncDevelops (Inc)]

In my opinion, I think that you can use blood and violence however you cannot do it if it is available to console players too. I’ve just did a search on DevForum and there are similar topics, they say as long as you don’t put it out to console players, it is fine (unless you just put straight up blood every 2 seconds lol). This is because when you give access to console players, it comes up with this:

Also look at this post, it has alot of useful information that may come handy for you, regarding how much violence and things you can change to make you game suitable for Roblox:

Is this kind of violent allowed on roblox? or is it too much for roblox

If you need a basis for what’s the limit for gore, look at what Bloodfest did, and it was even featured on Xbox. As long as it’s not depicting anything that would make it rated PEGI 18, it’ll be fine. If you decide to make anything on your own that includes gore, though, I’d suggest doing things such as changing the blood colour and such.

[doggy00]

I am fully aware of that pop-up and it’s the only reason I’m not making my project console-compatible. I appreciate your advice, though, and I will review that post later today.

Thanks!

[doggy00]

I appreciate your input. Thank you.