Roblox Kids and Select

Requiring either a one-time publishing fee or a recurring Roblox Plus or Premium subscription creates a meaningful financial cost for bad actors attempting to bypass publishing requirements with spam accounts, while remaining as affordable as possible for legitimate creators. Creators who are not yet ready to pay the fee or subscribe can still reach the 16+ audience.

Your game remains published and available to all ages. You only need to satisfy the publishing fee or subscription requirement when publishing a new game or updating an existing game for all ages audiences.

Use the Audience Reach dashboard in the Creator Hub to monitor your game's engagement benchmarks in real time.

Parents can use the Approved Experience control in parental settings to manually allow access to specific games for their child. This does not apply to Restricted (18+) content.

Before a game can reach younger audiences, we need to confirm it meets our policies for Roblox Kids and Select accounts. To do this, our Realtime Multimodal Moderation system reviews player engagement, using signals like account age, play history, and platform spend to verify that it is genuine and comes from highly engaged players.

Today, a highly engaged player must meet requirements on account tenure, playtime in your game, and platform spend to qualify. Users who meet the criteria for "platform spend" have made a minimum purchase anywhere on Roblox in the last 60 days and have spent time in your game within that same window. They don't need to spend anything in your game specifically. This spend creates a real cost to abuse and makes it much harder for bad actors to generate fake engagement at scale.

Highly engaged players play all kinds of games, including ones that are free to play, so your game doesn't need to be monetized for players to count toward your total.

We'll keep evolving these criteria over time to capture more genuine players, with safety as the priority.

Yes. We took an intentionally conservative approach at launch to make sure our safety systems have enough data to accurately evaluate games. We're working to expand eligibility so more compliant games can qualify in the coming weeks and months. We'll share an update on requirements before the global launch in June.

No. The refundable publishing fee will be automatically refunded 90 days after your game becomes eligible for Kids or Select accounts. If your game never reaches eligibility, it's still refunded 90 days after your initial payment date. The only exception is if your game is permanently removed from Roblox due to severe Community Standards violations.

You can pay a one-time, refundable expedited review fee.

We know many of you use uncopylocked games to share templates and learning resources with other creators. We're looking into options for how these are shared and discovered on Creator Store. We don't have a specific timeline yet, but will have more to share in the coming months.

Yes. The free Plus subscription rolled out one day later than planned, which caused a small number of eligible creators to pay the publishing fee unnecessarily. We're processing automatic refunds for everyone affected. No action needed on your end. The Robux will be back in your account within a few weeks.

"Private" games are now restricted solely to creators with Edit permissions. To share with anyone else, including those with Playtest permissions, you need to meet the new publishing eligibility requirements. Set your Audience to Limited > Playtesters to share your game with those with Playtest permissions. Playtesters who are Trusted Friends of age-checked game owners can access the game regardless of age, as long as the game's content maturity questionnaire has been completed. Games published to any of the Limited audiences will not be visible publicly in search or on the home page.