Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Roblox
The 20 closest user-generated gaming platform alternatives to Roblox, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 15 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Roblox? The closest matches are Minecraft, itch.io and Chess.com. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Roblox
Roblox roblox.com
Roblox: Play Free Online Games - Sign Up to Play!
Roblox is the ultimate virtual universe that lets you create, share experiences with friends, and be anything you can imagine. Join millions of people and discover an infinite variety of immersive experiences created by a global community!
Wikidata: multiplayer game creation platform
Summary by Claude
Roblox is an online platform where users play multiplayer games created by other users and build their own games with Roblox Studio, with a virtual currency (Robux) for in-game purchases.
- Who it’s for
- Children, teens and game creators
- Business model
- Virtual currency sales and subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Roblox’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Roblox
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Roblox, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Chess.com - Play Chess Online - Free Games
Play chess online for free on Chess.com with over 250 million members from around the world. Have fun playing with friends or challenging the computer!
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GameAnalytics – Turning Data Into Insights
GameAnalytics is the leading growth platform for game studios, offering a connected suite of products that help developers understand players, optimize performance, and scale success.
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Free Online Games on CrazyGames | Play Now!
Play free online games at CrazyGames, the best place to play high-quality browser games. We add new games every day. Have fun!
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Eldorado - Largest & Safest Game Items Marketplace
Buy game items, accounts, currency, top ups, boosting & gift cards safely. Shop millions of offers for hundreds of games. Legit sellers, always in stock.
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classroom review game
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Dutch video game publisher and developer
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Steam Community
Community Hubs are collections of all the best community and official game content as rated by users.
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DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
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lichess.org • Free Online Chess
Free online chess server. Play chess in a clean interface. No registration, no ads, no plugin required. Play chess with the computer, friends or random opponents.
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FunPay — Shop for Gamers
On FunPay, you can buy game currencies, accounts, items, skins and boosting services.
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Jagex - The RuneScape Company
Jagex creates living, player-shaped worlds. Home of RuneScape, we build games that evolve for decades - grounded in integrity, creativity, and community.
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Online browser games platform
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NG Guard
American entertainment and social media website
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GameBanana | The Game Modding Community - Since 2001
Mods, Tutorials, Sprays, Works In Progress, Sound Mods and more for video games
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GREE(グリー)
ソーシャルゲームプラットフォーム「GREE(グリー)」は、人気ゲームが盛りだくさん!スマホから無料ソーシャルゲームを楽しむならGREE。
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online database of board games, game designers and game publishers worldwide
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Blizzard Entertainment
Creators of the Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft, and Overwatch series, Blizzard Entertainment is an industry-leading developer responsible for the most epic entertainment experiences, ever.
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online publishing platform
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to roblox.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Roblox uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Roblox is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- AngularJS page source: ng-app="
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ip4:50.232.73.154/32 ip4:64.124.125.0/…
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=20b1c5cc2088de9c7ab305e2d1455be903a42175ffd8a6903…
- Monitoring
- Sentry page source: .ingest.us.sentry.io
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms35973480
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=2K2yyRHWOTtsNXj8
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=TRNSmfCcYn22IqU1Q7y4OOU8BMHhZJru/qaj1RR…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=HqTNMHwVpwjaPKTDBYBeOQ
- DocuSign TXT docusign=f4bd74a3-5d72-4e08-beb5-e6936e0c08ee
- Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=ek74bxiun7me
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: BfkEEZ1dsSAEJIS1yV2prCFgO8zboMYioG1c9VITB5Y
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-xsXfn7ITEPtbGzeIsvIE9ZsY
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=tOXc1vdAStyaHLdFO66ghB9rtuFbMcMXaT3RviGB
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_lMeKFSo1Tq22CpfWknKT3A
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Roblox adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on roblox.com 10/20
- Cloudflare · not on roblox.com 10/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on roblox.com 9/20
- Apple Business 7/20
- Zendesk 6/20
- Atlassian 6/20
- OpenAI 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on roblox.com 4/20
- SendGrid · not on roblox.com 4/20
- nginx · not on roblox.com 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on roblox.com 4/20
- Microsoft 365 3/20
- Yandex Webmaster · not on roblox.com 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on roblox.com 3/20