The Roblox game Grow a Garden rapidly gained popularity over the months since its release, to the point where it shattered almost every player count record in the final week of May 2025.
It’s no secret that Roblox is a huge game, if it can even be called that at this point. It’s more of a platform for users to express themselves and create whatever game they want with a large suit of dev tools.
However, Roblox is so immensely popular that one game has almost sextupled the concurrent player record for Counter-Strike 2, a game that consistently tops Steam’s 24 hour player count charts.
A relatively simple game called Grow a Garden has reached a record of 11,694,315 players at once, with that one simple title completely dwarfing every other title on the market. It’s not even close.
One Roblox game over 3 times more popular than Steam’s most played title
At the time of writing, PUB:G holds the all time player count record on Steam. Its heyday was legendary, everyone was playing this title when it came out in 2017. It practically birthed the Battle Royale fad that took over the entire games industry for years.
Its record is 3,257,248 concurrent players. That’s not even one third of the record Grow a Garden just set. Fortnite’s all-time concurrent player record is over 14 million, so that game still clears Grow a Garden, but not by much.
Bear in mind, however, this is just one title on Roblox’s massive library. So, what exactly is Grow a Garden?
It’s essentially a clicker game. You buy plants, wait for them to grow, sell them, and then repeat the process, buying bigger and better plants as you go. Plants grow offline, so players are incentivized to get their garden all set up and log back in each day to harvest.
So, the reason this record was broken was due to an update being released that added some new content. Because of that, millions of players who had planted gardens all logged in at the same time, boosting that concurrent player count to unseen heights.
This broke the following Roblox records according to the Guinness World Records wiki:
- Most visits in 10 minutes – 8,276,432
- Most visits in 1 hour – 26,711,096
- Most visits gained in a day – 209,423,018
- Most visits gained in a week – 1,087,479,963
- Most concurrent players – 11,694,315
It’s hard to put into words just how massive Roblox is. The games industry has massive conferences like the Summer Game Fest that show off projects people put literal hundreds of millions of dollars into, and yet this Roblox game will likely have more concurrent players than anything announced.
