A lot of people think that Roblox is just a shameless rip-off of Minecraft — and a lot of people are wrong. In a lot of ways.

Roblox is a few years older than Minecraft. Old in gaming terms. The platform has been around since 2005, but here in 2020 it is at the height of its astronomical popularity.

And Roblox isn’t a survival crafting game like Minecraft. Roblox isn’t really a game at all; it’s a platform for hosting user-generated game worlds, loosely tied together by a signature voxel art style. There are millions of Roblox games, spanning just about every genre you can think of.

And while most of these games remain untouched by the light of day, collecting dust deep in the Roblox digital warehouse, some of these games have reached monumental levels of popularity, making their developers real money. Some literally have millions of players and active communities.