Seriously, how is it doing this?
One of the elements that keep the gaming industry alive and “feeling fresh” is the fact that there are times when teams come out of nowhere with titles that truly blow fans and critics away, and we wonder how this team has “stayed hidden for so long,” or how we have “never experienced a game like this before.” We’ve honestly had something like this happen in 2025 via Sandfall Interactive and its first RPG. However, another game is also in that conversation: Roblox Grow A Garden. The title was “born” in late March of 2025, and ever since then, the game has not just been growing in interest but in player count.
We’ve talked about this before, actually. Not too long ago, we noted that Roblox Grow A Garden hit 5 million concurrent players in a single day, which was astounding and record-breaking at the time. So, why are we talking about this game? Simple: The game just broke its own record by a couple of million!
It’s true! Over the week, the game was reported to have nearly 9 million players on it all at once! That’s insane! Yet, it’s been validated.
Congratulations to "Grow a Garden" by @JandelRBLX on achieving 8,916,901 concurrent users, the most ever in a single Roblox experience at once!
The previous record was also set by "Grow a Garden" with 5,033,457 CCUs last Saturday, May 17th, 2025.
— Bloxy News (@Bloxy_News) May 24, 2025
Having nearly nine million people playing a single entry all at once is frankly unheard of, even when you factor in certain AAA titles like legendary FPS games or a certain Marvel title with lots of fan service. Sure, those games have been documented as having tens of millions of players or having sold tens of millions of units, but that doesn’t mean all those people play it at once and have numbers like this. Yet, a game about growing plants and crops in a garden did. What a world we live in.
Oh, and as if that’s not enough, because of that high player count, the universe now has a new all-time concurrent player number for the whole thing:
Roblox reached a new all-time high concurrent user count on Saturday, May 24th, 2025, with 17,624,097 players across all games and experiences on the platform!
The previous record was 15,857,146 set last Saturday, May 17th, 2025. pic.twitter.com/KMhZryskEu
— Bloxy News (@Bloxy_News) May 24, 2025
So, let’s ask the big question here: How is this happening? In truth, we have no idea. In fact, no one really knows! The game is NOT revolutionary in any way. It’s just a blocky version of a farming simulator. There were even claims that there was some “directing” to the title so that its numbers could “inflate,” but that hasn’t been verified in full.
It’s possible that this game, as hilarious as it sounds, just “went viral’ and hasn’t stopped basking in that phenomenon. Or, maybe people just like how simple and fun the game is. Either way, the numbers speak for themselves.
