Roblox Adventures

 Important info 

Roblox Adventures is an upcoming game developed by Fifteam, the newly formed Roblox Game Studios (which is not real) and Insomaniac, published by Roblox Corporation released in July of 2021 on the Playstation 5, Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PC and Google Stadia. The game is a part of the platformer genre, with a focus on open world exploration in 6 vibrant worlds and 4 stages in each, with a boss fight with each ruler of a vibrant world, the game has a soundtrack, story and a multiplayer mode, and the game uses Unreal Engine 4. The game got a rating of E for Everyone 10+, PEGI 7 and PG (in other parts of the world)

 Story 

Plot

Roblox Adventures' story has the protagonist "Nooby", a cute small version of a noob finds a room full of portals hidden inside Bloxtopia, all of these portals were lit off and are connected to a sword in the middle, Nooby then tries to pull the sword off to see if anything can be done, but the Sword is yet to be revealed, and it's just a piece of stone shaped like a sword, and accidentaly, Nooby presses a button without knowing it was there and activates the first portal, he calls his Bloxtopian friends "The Pal (Bacon Hair guy" and your own custom character to enter the first portal, the first portal leads to a "vibrant world" like stated earlier with blue dirt and floating grounds full of flying angels and the unifier of all these angels, the Angel Queen, Nooby realises after defeating her, the second portal is lit then he goes on to all the dimensions, the first one after the sky vibrant world is the retro vibrant world, and he defeats the boss of the retro world (King 8-bit), the egghunt world (Where he defeats Gurt-Bunny), the dark world (Where he defeats Dark Jr.), the lava world (and he defeats Fire Man) and finally, the pirates world (Where he defeats The Pirate) with jokes of the Roblox community, serious moments and just fun writing. But when the last portal is finished, the sword is in it's normal form, so Nooby decides to pick it up, and when he finally picked it up, a fog creature comes out of the crack that the sword was in and puts all of Robloxia plus Bloxtopia the city in Robloxia into darkness, all hope was lost, criminals begin to steal houses left and right because nobody was able to fight the darkness and everyone needed a way to survive, but Nooby and his friends, having learned all of their adventures fly into the sky to defeat Mr Darkness who transformed into a Giant beast and with the power of friendship, the friends defeat Mr Darkness and the world is back to normal, everyone is happy and cheering, but then Nooby and his friends will embark a new adventure

Voice Acting (note: most of the voice actors here may have nothing related to voice acting because they are just random names i came up with except one voice actor)

Nooby was voiced by Chris Redrose, a famous voice actor in the department of a cute and brave kid, Roblox thought Chris would be a perfect voice for the character, and Chris also voiced Mr. Darkness Jr.

the custom character is voiced by various voice actors from different places depending on which voice you use

The Pal is voiced by Eric James, a voice actor who has voiced various characters in different movies and tv shows, but didn't join the game department until now, his voice is perfect for a teenager which has a kiddy accent.

The Angel is voiced by Lara Redrose, the sister of Chris Redrose, the voice is of a peaceful angel and Roblox thought it would fit perfectly again.

King Retro and Mr. Darkness are voiced by Max Ratson, for King Retro Max Ratson peformed excellently in Roblox's eyes and his voice was dark that Roblox also made him voice Mr. Darkness

Fire Man is voiced by Dan Green who also voiced Knuckles and Mephiles The Dark in Sonic '06, Roblox wanted a voice similar to Mephiles The Dark for Lava Man so the best thing to do is to just hire Mephiles' original voice actor, and Dan Green also voiced the pirate.

A lot of youtubers appeared as cameos in the game and they were given their actual voices to peform, Denis, Kreekcraft, RussoPlays, Sabrinabrite and DJ from Terabrite, Flamingo, DanTDM, Sketch and Kaden Fumblebottom (the friend of Flamingo) were voiced by they're respective youtubers except Denis who was voiced by Eric James again.

Gameplay

The player can play as 3 characters which are of course Nooby, the custom character and The Pal, all of them share a similar playstyle but with their own different abilites, the main currency of the game is not actually robux and is Tix instead of robux, collecting enough Tix lets you to customize your characters with costumes, hats, and DLC or upgrade their abilites. Another currency comes in the form of egghunt eggs which can be traded with the civillians of the other worlds to get costumes and other stuff. And finally, Robux is a currency but used for the multiplayer to keep track of how much robux your Roblox account has (the Roblox account detail will be explained better later)

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Multiplayer Mode

The multiplayer mode is accessible by internet of course and with an account of the respective console you have or PC (PSN, Xbox Live Account [Xbox and PC], Steam Account and Nintendo Account), but unfortunately only with the account of the console you own, cross-play will not be available but fortunately you can make a Roblox account for normal roblox with email verification and log into it in Roblox Adventures, and if you don't have an account, Roblox recommends going to the console's web browser and getting a roblox account with an email verified, but if you already have a Roblox username without an email, you have to put an email in it. And after you do that you can play any server that's online, but if you want to make your own server, download the server program from Roblox's website for your PC and check the version that you have for Roblox Adventures to locate the folders, and if you have the CD ROM version you can simply find the files of it.

 Development 

"a project as big as Roblox Adventures needs work, that's why we kept the project from 7 years ago" - David Baszucki in an interview with Gamesradar, 2021

Development started somewhere around 2014 where Shedletsky wanted to create a Roblox spin-off revolving around platforming, after a bit of talks, the CEO of Roblox agreed and the secret project was put into creation, Insomaniac decided to help Shedletsky and his small team to make the small project a dream come true, the project at the time was called "Project Roblox 2019" wanting the game to release that year (which never happened), in 2016 a leak was shown by an anonymous in 4chan about the project, and because of it being in 4chan and the fact that it sounded really fake and most of the roblox community didn't believe it, except it was actually real... Shedletsky of course left Roblox which made the smaller team have a new leader of the project and they came up with every character they needed, they hired Sonic artist Tyson Hesse to make sketches of Nooby and a final design was chosen, and then in 2016, Roblox began actual game development learned from the Unreal Engine 4 to develop it on there and to show how Roblox characters can be put into such amazing-looking worlds, most of the music was composed in 2017 and got musicians of Mario games, the guy who singed city escape from SA2, a lot of people who know guitars, DAGames to compose the pirate song, Over The Sea, In 2018, roblox wanted to finally announce the game as they're going to release it in 2019, but then Roblox realized that the game they made was very short and had a lot of glitches so they delayed it to 2021 without an announcement of the game itself and an announcement of the delay, in 2020, the game's singleplayer mode was fully finished but roblox wanted to make the announcement as a suprise, the multiplayer mode began development in 2019 and is near completion, so Roblox made the Metaverse Champions event to distract everyone and after the metaverse champions reached a certain point, a small trailer of Roblox Adventures was shown to the public, it said July 2021, Roblox Adventures. People were hyped to see that the game will come out on the PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X and the Nintendo Switch, more trailers got shown to the public and then after a small release trailer the game was finally released to the public in the 21th of July in 2021.

 Critical Reception 

Roblox Adventures was praised from critics and fans alike for it's story which mixes seriousness and comedy into something that's great, the very nice visuals from the Unreal Engine, the smooth combat that was rated "the best combat" in 2021 for IGN and the amazing platforming segments, and the reviewers didn't miss the challenging boss fights. IGN gave this game an 8 out of 10, praising the platforming and the combat, but bashing the story for it's seriousness and comedy mix. Gamespot gave it a 9.5/10, liking everything the game has to offer, Metacritic rated it 95/100 making it a top pick for Metacritic reviewers and Nintendo Power gave it a 10/10. The Roblox community also praised the game and some called it "Roblox's comeback" as it was a top pick for every fan and almost nobody in the Roblox community can bash the game hardly, reviewers compared it to Balan Wonderworld and said "It's obviously better".

 Other information 

Multimedia

A sequel of Roblox Adventures was announced shortly after the release of Roblox Adventures, named Roblox Adventures 2, at the time there was not that much information except that the composer of the music was changed to another one. A tie-in movie was announced a little bit after Roblox Adventures got revealed to the public being published by Disney and Roblox themselves. A poll on the official roblox website was made about "Should Nooby be the new mascot of Roblox as a whole?" and the players picked the answer "yes", so for now Roblox's new mascot is Nooby from Roblox Adventures, the Roblox toy line-up featured Nooby and other characters from Roblox Adventures.

Rating (Age)

ESRB gave the game E10+ for it's fantasty violence and fear

PEGI said the game was appropriate for 7 and over and they said for it's violence and in-game purchases

And finally, the australian rating system gave it PG.

PC Specs Legacy

A version of Roblox Adventures for the Roblox platform was released for free, the build was based off the demo version of Roblox Adventures and not the full game because of certain Roblox Studio limitations, hence why it was a free demo. Roblox later partnershipped with SEGA to release "Roblox Adventures Ultimate" in 2024 with enhanced graphics from the Unreal Engine 4.5, costumes for major SEGA franchises, the time trial mode which is similar to the time attack mode from the sonic classic games, and Sketch (the youtuber) as a playable character exclusively on PC (via Steam) the PS5 and the Xbox Series X. It later released on the PS4 and Nintendo Switch Pro in 2025.