Roblox's "Grow A Garden" game is breaking popularity records. A 16-year-old created it. How did it blow up? I tried it myself.

Grow a Garden, the breakout game on Roblox, has broken the concurrent-player-count record. It broke over 16 million CCUs (concurrent users) over the weekend, beating out Fortnite by nearly two ...

Following the launch of its 1.07.0 update, Grow a Garden had nearly eight million active players, which is more than the top 100 Steam games combined.

The latest high was also more than double Steam’s individual game record, at approximately 3.2m with BUPG: Battlegrounds back in 2018. More recent Steam hits like 2024’s Black Myth: Wukong and ...