Roblox safety
By Alex Lambeth-Anderson
Roblox is a worldwide known game that a lot of people, mostly kids and teenagers play. Roblox is a gaming platform where any user can create their own game, for everyone to view and play. But lately, more games that are getting more and more unhinged and inappropriate are sliding through the cracks of Roblox safety and security. Games like “Sarah's house tycoon” and “99 nights in the forest” have been recently added on to this gaming platform, and they are becoming more disturbing. I am going to be referring to the games I just mentioned, as a way to explain what I mean by “disturbing”.
“Sarah’s house tycoon” was added to Roblox on
June 21st, 2025. The game was removed as it was "Inappropriate" But another Roblox user copied the game and made it again. But this time it's not banned, though not much has changed. This game was supposedly made by “Sarah’s” stalker. Many are speculating if this is true, but even if it is just made up to scare children, it is still disturbing and should not be on a game platform like Roblox, for anyone to play. Another game I mentioned was “99 Nights in the Forest”, which is based off of a tragedy that happened on May 1st, 2023. A mother and her four children were on a plane when suddenly the plane crashed. The pilots died and so did the mother. The two pilots had died right after the crash, from impact, but the mother died four days after. All of the adults dying meant that the four children were all alone. In the Amazon jungle. The children at the time were 13, 9, 4, and only 11 months old at the time of this accident. They had to spend 40 days in the forest, alone. The children were eventually found, and had only scratches and bumps from the forest, and are all still alive today. This accident must have been very terrifying and traumatizing for the people involved in it, yet the Roblox creator, named Cracky4 made a game about it. This creator originally brought this game onto Roblox on March 4th, 2025. Just two years on the aftermath of this tragedy. Yet Roblox has let these games slide, and they are apparently getting more and more disturbing. Willow Lambeth-Anderson, student of South Eugene High School states “ I think games that include real life tragedies or traumatizing events should not be shared on an app for children to play”. From what I have asked other people about this same topic, it seems most people agree that these games should not just be accessible to everyone, let alone anyone. A few resources I found for the topic of roblox safety, one of them I found was a website named the guardian, which talked mostly about how “Something deeply disturbing, a troubling disconnect between Roblox’s child-friendly appearance and the reality of what children experience on the platform.” Overall, Roblox is a great gaming platform, but a lot of people believe that yes, Roblox should stay up for people to play on and create games, but that Roblox should do more to make sure that these games are appropriate and definitely not based on real life traumatizing experiences and events.