However, kids under 13 make up a huge portion of Roblox’s users. According to a February 2022 SEC filing, 22% of users are under 9 and 23% are between the ages of 9 and 12.

Roblox Safety Issues for Kids Robox, which launched in 2006, is super popular—an October 31, 2024 Roblox report states it has 88.9 million average daily active users playing the games.

KSAT spoke to parents and the Roblox Corporation to find out what parents can do to keep their kids safe. San Antonio mother Lisa Marie Helmke said her son has played Roblox since he was 5 years old.

Worry not, as Roblox is free-to-play, so it won’t cost you a dime to download it, and it’s also widely available on almost all mobile devices. There’s no reason not to give it a go!

Roblox is adding new restrictions to younger kids’ accounts and revamping its parental control features as part of a push to beef up the safety features on its platform.

Roblox announced major parental controls, blocking kids under 13 from direct messaging and rolling out stricter content limits after growing safety concerns.

One new measure will stop kids under 13 from accessing experiences with “certain types of interactive features,” Roblox says in a post on its developer forum. Those include “social hangouts ...