Everyone loves building structures but Roblox is capitalizing on people who love to build games. Its online gaming network already has already grown into the millions of players.

But Roblox is primarily a building game, not a market simulation. The game is physics-based and encourages both building things out of virtual blocks, and using scripting to code how items behave.

Since its launch in 2006, the free-to-play, user-generated massively multiplayer online game Roblox has given millions of players the power to create hundreds of original games. Using building ...

Roblox said that it has reached a milestone in user-generated games. It now has more than 1.7 million game creators on its Lego-like game platform.

Sony and Lego recently invested billions of dollars in Epic Games, which hopes to develop its own “metaverse” and go toe-to-toe with Roblox.