Needle In A Haystack

Where the Simulation games that earn the most sat on Roblox’s Top Earning chart this window, as hourly averages on one shared axis — higher is better, and a gap is a game that fell off the shelf entirely. This game didn’t chart on Top Earning this window, so it has no line here; 88 tracked Simulation games did. Top Earning is Roblox’s own ranking of Robux taken in — they publish no revenue figures, so a position on it is the closest thing to an earnings number anyone outside a studio can see.

Every game on Roblox’s Top Earning shelf this window, placed by its average position there against its average concurrent players. The dashed line is par: the players a shelf game at each position typically has, which is where every game would sit if they all converted the same share of their players. Left of par is a game holding its position with fewer players than that — more taken in per player than the shelf norm; right of par, less. This game didn’t chart on Top Earning this window, though a par game with its 3,342 players would sit around #83 — the diamond on the par line. If the shelf is the complete top 97 by earnings, that caps its per-player take at 0.33× par; but Roblox doesn’t say how the shelf is picked, and games this size do go missing from it, so read a big game’s absence as a ceiling with a question mark, not a score. The 88 Simulation games on the shelf run a median 0.61× par. Roblox publishes no revenue, so this is a relative read, not a payer percentage: with spend per payer at the shelf norm, 2× par means twice a par game’s share of players paying.