Roblox Game Genres and How to Make Each One
What players do in each kind of Roblox game, how to choose one for your idea, and a full guide to making each with PromptBlox.
A genre is shorthand for what players do over and over. In an obby they jump, in a tycoon they earn and buy, and in a murder mystery they keep a secret role hidden until the round ends. Knowing the loop behind a genre helps you describe your own game clearly, whichever one you pick.
Describe any genre in your own words
Open Create and describe the game you want: what players do, where it happens and how they win. PromptBlox builds the world and writes the Luau scripts that run it. Start from one of the genres below, mix two of them, or describe a kind of game that none of these names covers.
Each guide linked below covers how that kind of game plays, the details to include when you describe it, and what to check in a Roblox Studio playtest.
Movement and racing games
In these games players win by moving well, whether that means timing a jump across a gap or taking a corner fast on a track.
Obby
Players jump, climb and dodge their way along a course, and checkpoints mean a fall only costs them the current stage. A good obby teaches one move at a time and then asks for it under pressure. A finish line, a stage counter or a best time gives players a reason to go again.
Racing
Players drive around a track, pass checkpoints in order so nobody can cut across, and race for first place or the best lap. How the car accelerates, grips and recovers after a crash decides whether the race is fun. PromptBlox can place drivable cars from its asset library when your game needs one.
Combat and team games
Players fight or compete in short rounds, alone or on a team, and the rules have to give every side a fair chance.
Fighting (battlegrounds)
Players pick a move kit and fight in an arena with attacks, blocks and dashes that each have a cooldown. Timing and reading the other player matter more than how many moves there are, so balance comes first. A round is over once one player or team remains, or a free-for-all keeps a running score.
FPS arena
Two teams, or every player for themselves, spawn into a map of lanes and cover and play timed rounds with a loadout. The map decides most fights: sight lines, safe spawns and routes that stop one side from camping. A score limit and a clean round reset close the loop.
Paintball
A lighter team shooter where one splat of paint takes a player out of the round. Fields are built from bunkers, rounds reset fast, and a flag or elimination rule gives each round a goal. It suits a competitive game without realistic weapons.
Sports
Two teams chase one ball across a field or court and try to score before the match clock runs out. The ball has to feel right before anything else: how far a kick travels, how it bounces and who can pick it up. Soccer, basketball and football each need their own scoring and restart rules.
Social and party games
Players spend most of their time with each other, making up stories together or working out which of them is lying.
Roleplay
There is no score. Players invent their own stories in a town with jobs, homes, shops and places to hang out, so every building needs a reason for someone to be there. PromptBlox can add drivable cars from its asset library, so players can get around town by car.
Murder mystery
Each round secretly hands out roles: one player is the murderer, one can stop them, and everyone else tries to survive and work out who it is. The map needs hiding spots and clues, and rounds have to stay short so nobody waits long to play again. It needs several players, so test rounds with a few people at once.
Building and progression games
Players earn money or resources, spend them on upgrades, and come back later to keep adding to what they have built.
Tycoon
Players claim a plot, collect cash from droppers or machines, and spend it on buttons that add floors, machines and decorations. The economy matters most: each purchase should raise income enough that the next one feels close. Rebirths reset the plot in exchange for a permanent boost.
Simulator
Players collect something, sell it and buy upgrades that make collecting faster, then unlock new zones with better rewards. Pets and rebirths multiply progress over time. The pacing decides whether players stay: fast early wins, then goals worth coming back for.
Tower defense
Enemies walk a fixed path in waves, and players place towers beside it to stop them before they reach the base. Every wave pays for the next defense, so enemy health, tower prices and upgrades have to balance. A boss wave gives the run an ending.
RPG and dungeon
Players take quests, fight enemies, collect loot and level up to reach harder areas. A dungeon game squeezes the same loop into rooms that end in a boss. Start with one quest line and one dungeon, then add systems once that adventure plays well.
Story, horror and survival games
Players face a threat, such as a monster, a chase or a hard night, and try to escape it or last until it ends.
Story game
A group arrives somewhere, something goes wrong, and each chapter moves them closer to escaping. Chapters mix puzzles, keys and a chase, with checkpoints so a lost chase does not restart the whole story. Plan the ending first, because it is what players are playing toward.
Horror
Players explore dark rooms, listen for sound cues and hide from a monster while they search for keys or an exit. The fear comes from rules players can learn, such as a monster that hunts by sound, and from lighting that shows just enough. An escape gives the scare a finish.
Survival
Players gather wood, stone and food, craft tools and shelter, and keep hunger and health up until the threat arrives, usually at night. Each night should be harder than the last, so the daytime choices matter. In a zombie survival game, the threat is waves of zombies that attack the base.
Not sure yet? Get a random idea
The Roblox game idea generator picks a genre, setting, twist and goal for you and writes the result as a prompt you can copy or build. Shuffle until one sounds like a game you would play yourself, then add the details only you know.
If you would rather start from something small, the article 10 Roblox game ideas for beginners sizes each idea for a first game and gives a prompt for each.
How to pick a genre for your first game
The guide to choosing what kind of Roblox game to make first goes further, with what each kind of game needs and an example first prompt. The short version:
- Start from the action you enjoy. Jumping, driving, fighting, building, earning, hiding or exploring: pick the one you would enjoy doing again and again. Then say what it gets the player and what that leads to. An answer like “collect shells, sell them, buy a bigger net” already points to a simulator.
- Count the players. Obbies, tycoons and simulators work well for one player. Story and horror games are often played by a small group. Murder mystery, FPS, paintball and sports games need several players in a server to feel right, and to test.
- Pick the shape of a session. Round games (murder mystery, FPS, paintball, sports, fighting) reset every few minutes. Progression games (tycoon, simulator, RPG) keep building up between visits. Run games (obby, story, horror, survival) have a start and an ending.
- Keep the first version small. Build one course, one zone, one arena or one night first. Play it, ask for the biggest fix in chat, and add more once that part works.
What PromptBlox builds, whatever the genre
Every genre on this page comes down to a world and scripts that have to agree with each other: an obby’s checkpoints, a tycoon’s buy buttons, an arena’s spawn points. PromptBlox builds both halves and connects them.
- The rules come first. Before anything is built, PromptBlox plans the gameplay: the actions, the rules and how players win or lose, such as what each tycoon button buys or how a murder mystery round ends. Then it builds the world piece by piece and writes the Luau scripts.
- Scripts tied to the parts they run. PromptBlox wires each script to the objects it controls, such as an obby’s checkpoint pads to the script that tracks each player’s stage, or an arena’s spawn points to the script that runs the round. Each part gets an id, and the SceneBindings module that PromptBlox adds lets a script look up its parts by id, so no script depends on you renaming parts by hand.
- Checks before a build can finish. Automatic checks compare the world and its scripts with the plan. If the tycoon plan lists a dropper and the world has none, or a door is meant to be scripted and no script controls it, the check fails and the builder has to fix it. The build cannot finish until its checks pass.
- A build you can follow. The course or the town takes shape in the 3D view while PromptBlox works, the progress bar steps from Concept to Checks, and you can send a note such as “make the second jump shorter” while it runs.
- Edits that read the game first. Ask in chat for a harder final stage or a slower zombie wave, and PromptBlox looks up the areas and scripts involved in the game’s Game Graph before it edits. Select a few parts in the 3D view before you ask, and the edit has to stay inside that selection.
- Earlier versions in History. If a change to the economy makes your tycoon worse, restore the version before it. History holds the last 50 versions of each game, and restoring one leaves the later versions in place.
- One file for Roblox Studio. Export gives you one .rbxlx place file with the world, the Luau scripts in their Roblox services and any models from PromptBlox’s asset library that the game uses.
Whatever genre you pick, the first build is where testing starts. Load the export into Studio on your Windows or Mac computer, play it the way your players will, then bring the biggest problem back to chat. The guide on making a Roblox game with AI covers each step from the first prompt to publishing, and the pricing page shows which build levels come with each plan. PromptBlox is for creators 13 and older.
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of games can you make on Roblox?
Almost any kind. Well-known genres include obbies, tycoons, simulators, roleplay towns, story and horror games, survival, tower defense, RPGs, battlegrounds fighting games, FPS arenas, paintball, racing, sports and murder mystery. You can also mix two, such as a survival island that is attacked in tower-defense waves.
What is the easiest kind of Roblox game to make first?
An obby or a small simulator. Each has one clear loop you can test alone: an obby is a route from start to finish, and a simulator is collect, sell and upgrade. Keep the first version to a few stages or one zone, playtest it in Roblox Studio, then add more through chat.
Do I have to pick one of these genres?
No. You describe the game in your own words and PromptBlox builds from that description, so a mix of two genres, or a game that fits none of these names, starts the same way. The genre guides on this site explain how each kind of game plays, which helps you describe yours.
Can I mix two genres in one game?
Yes. Describe both loops and how they connect, for example a horror escape told in three chapters, or a tycoon plot inside a roleplay town. Get one loop working first, then add the second through chat after a playtest.
Can I make a Roblox game for free?
Yes. Every plan, Free included, can build at the Light level, edit in chat, keep saved versions and export a .rbxlx file. Free use has a small weekly allowance, and it can pause when the free capacity everyone shares runs out. Medium, High and Ultra builds come with paid plans, shown on the pricing page.
Where does Roblox Studio come in?
You describe, build, refine and export the game in your web browser. To playtest and publish it, open the exported file in Roblox Studio, Roblox’s free app for Windows and Mac.
Pick a genre, or mix two, and describe the first version in your own words.
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