Top Roblox Games in October 2026: Rankings, Biggest Movers, and Halloween Updates

Steal An Egg is still the biggest game on Roblox, with 713K concurrent players in RoWatcher’s snapshot taken at 20:10 UTC on October 29, 2026. The story of the month, though, belongs to Murder Mystery 2. It jumped 146.2% from our September board to 473K players after its retro-themed Halloween event went live on October 18, and twelve years after launch, Nikilis’s whodunit is the second most played game on the platform again. Spooky season, it turns out, is mostly a scheduling contest.

For context, RoWatcher counted 11.6M people across 19K live experiences at that moment. Two games on this board are new since September, and one of them is published by Roblox itself.

The Board: October 2026 at a Glance

Player counts come from RoWatcher’s October 29 snapshot (20:10 UTC). Visits and ratings come from Statroblox, pulled October 30. The two trackers rank the top five identically but split on the bottom of the board: Statroblox’s snapshot had Break and Steal an Egg (105.1K) and Throw Food For Animals (89.4K) inside its top 10, where RoWatcher had The Hollow and Jujutsu Shenanigans. Event-driven games swing hard by the hour, so treat any snapshot as a photo, not a verdict.

Biggest Movers: September vs October

Murder Mystery 2 is the clear climber. GGAID had it at 219.4K on October 7, before anything spooky happened, and the jump to 473K lines up with the Halloween 2026 event that launched on October 18 with a new Candy currency, a 30-tier Battle Pass, and a revamped Haunted House 2 map. The game’s community wiki even notes a brief spike past 2.24 million concurrent players, while flagging that most of those accounts were bots that were terminated soon after, which explains some wild MM2 readings this month. The biggest faller is Steal An Egg, down 887K from our September figure. That is less a collapse than gravity: RoWatcher records its all-time peak at 14.3M concurrent players in September, and October brought a wave of egg-themed lookalikes competing for the same audience. Blox Fruits (-44.1%) spent the month between updates, and Ride A Pet and +1 Speed Keyboard Escape fell out of the top 10 entirely.

The Heavyweights: Eggs, Murder, and Main Street

1. Steal An Egg (and Collect Rare Pets): 713K concurrent players

Steal An Egg launched in July 2026 and has already logged roughly 9.8 billion visits on RoWatcher. The loop is simple: grab eggs from other players, hatch them into pets, let those pets earn in-game money, then pour that money into a faster treadmill and a tougher base so you can steal more. And yes, the creator group really is called “and Collect Rare Pets”, so tracker listings read like one long title. What holds players is the collection chase. The game promises rarer eggs, pet sizes, and mutations, which turns every hatch into a small lottery ticket. The month was still a comedown from September’s record, but even after shedding more than half its players, it sits about 240K ahead of anything else on Roblox.

2. Murder Mystery 2 (Nikilis): 473K concurrent players

Murder Mystery 2 has been running since 2014 and sits on 31.9 billion visits, per Statroblox. Every round deals out a murderer, a sheriff, and a crowd of innocents, and the tension of not knowing who holds the knife has carried it for over a decade. October’s reason to return is the Halloween 2026 event, subtitled “A retro Halloween”, which runs from October 18 to November 16. Coins stop dropping during the event and Candy takes their place, feeding a 30-tier Battle Pass that ends with the Emberbow and a Halloween Box that can roll the godly Embersickle. A Cauldron in the lobby then combines those two into the Emberscythe, giving the game’s huge trading community fresh items to chase.

3. Brookhaven RP (Brookhaven by Voldex): 422K concurrent players

Brookhaven RP is the platform’s default hangout: a town full of houses, cars, and jobs with no win condition, which is exactly the point. At 89 billion visits on Statroblox, it is the most visited game on this board by a wide margin. People keep coming back because the town works as a stage for whatever story they and their friends want to run that day. Brookhaven’s Halloween drop started on October 23 and runs until November 6, built around a candy corn hunt with a prize menu and a Candy Corn Radar for tracking down the glowing collectibles. It is a lighter touch than MM2’s event, but it worked: Brookhaven is up 28.0% on our September board.

Collectors and Caretakers

4. Steal a Brainrot (BRAZILIAN SPYDER): 276K concurrent players

Steal a Brainrot was the breakout hit of 2025, reaching a peak of 25.4 million concurrent users in October, according to its Wikipedia entry, and it is back in the top 10 after missing our September board. The format is the steal-and-defend loop that Steal An Egg now rides: buy brainrot characters, let them generate income, protect your base, and raid everyone else’s. Halloween arrived in two waves. Update 69 on October 3 added the Haunted Fuse machine and the Eclipse mutation, and Update 70 on October 10 brought the Skull Lucky Block and a Skeleton base, according to a wiki-sourced roundup from RBLXGUIDE. Fresh mutations matter more here than almost anywhere else, because rarity is the entire economy.

5. Adopt Me! (Uplift Games): 218K concurrent players

Adopt Me! is the elder statesman of pet collecting on Roblox, with 45.3 billion visits on Statroblox. Its pull has always been social: players raise pets, age them up, and trade them, so a limited pet keeps its status long after the event that introduced it ends. That is why Halloween carries so much weight here. The 2026 event opened on October 3 with a Ghost Gallery minigame inside a new Manor, where players blast ghosts to earn Candy Corn, the event currency. Weekly drops followed, including a Hauntlet Returns update on October 9 and a four-level Crypt that players open with keys. The event wraps on October 31, and Adopt Me! finishes the month up 61.0% on September.

Fighters, Survivors, and One Very Official Haunting

6. RIVALS (Nosniy Games): 153K concurrent players

RIVALS is one of Roblox’s most popular competitive shooters, built around fast duels that scale from 1v1 up to 5v5, with 19 billion visits on Statroblox. Short rounds and a deep skin collection keep players queuing. Its Halloween event, RIVALSWEEN, arrived with Update 24 and runs on Roblox’s official event listing from October 17 to November 7. It brings back Zombie Tower, adds a new Gargoyle Tower challenge, and pays out in Candy. The launch bump was real: Timesaver’s API pulls show 200,567 concurrent players on October 11 and 290,546 just after launch on October 18. By our October 29 snapshot, though, RIVALS had settled back to 153K, up only 1.1% on September.

7. 99 Nights in the Forest (Grandma’s Favorite Games): 146K concurrent players

99 Nights in the Forest asks a group of players to survive, well, 99 nights in a forest, feeding a campfire with wood to keep it lit while something hunts them in the dark. Wikipedia credits it with a 14.2 million concurrent-user peak, and Statroblox now puts it at 30.3 billion visits. Co-op tension keeps people coming back: every night is a shared-resource problem, and one careless teammate can let the fire die for everyone. October also brought some outside attention, since The Deer from 99 Nights is one of the monsters Roblox pulled into The Hollow. The result is the steadiest line on the board, down just 0.6% from September.

8. Blox Fruits (Gamer Robot Inc): 137K concurrent players

Blox Fruits is Roblox’s long-haul grind: a One Piece-flavored action RPG where players level up, hunt for devil fruits, and work through three seas of content, with 65.1 billion visits on Statroblox. Its retention engine is depth, because there is always a stronger fruit or sword waiting one grind session away. October, however, was a month of waiting. The live build was still Update 30, last updated on October 11, while Gamer Robot’s Blox Bulletin #025 promised a Halloween event on October 31 itself. That gap shows on the board. Blox Fruits is down 44.1% from September, the second steepest fall among games that held a top-10 spot, behind only Steal An Egg.

9. The Hollow (Roblox Presents): 134K concurrent players

The Hollow is Roblox’s own platform-wide Halloween event, published by the Roblox Presents group, and it opened on October 22. Players enter a shared survival hub where a new maze and a new monster arrive each night for nine nights, starting with Seek from DOORS and Twisted Dandy from Dandy’s World. Quests send players into participating games and pay out avatar rewards, with a live finale on October 31 and rewards claimable until noon PST on November 2. The hook is appointment play, since each nightly unlock gives people a reason to log in at a set time. That also makes it the spikiest game here. RoWatcher logs a 449K peak, yet the same tracker showed just 38K during a quiet hour.

10. Jujutsu Shenanigans (Tze’s Shenanigans): 128K concurrent players

Jujutsu Shenanigans is a battlegrounds fighter inspired by Jujutsu Kaisen, with 7.8 billion visits on Statroblox. Players pick a character, learn their combos, and brawl in free-for-all servers, which makes new fighters the game’s lifeblood. October delivered one. The V1.84 Halloween Update on October 23 added Hired Killer, the game’s version of Toji Fushiguro, who swaps between three cursed tools and can walk through the domain barriers that trap everyone else. He launched as an Early Access character, so the most dedicated players got him first, and the update also added a Halloween-themed map to fight on. JJS climbed 9.2% on our September board.

Genre Breakdown

Here is how the top 10 splits by genre, using combined concurrent players per group. September’s numbers come from last month’s board, where Ride A Pet sat with the simulators and +1 Speed Keyboard Escape was the lone obby. We file Blox Fruits under fighting because its core loop is combat progression, and Murder Mystery 2 under other because social deduction fits none of the remaining buckets.

The top 10 combined for 2.8M players in October against 3.26M in September, a 14.2% dip. That headline hides the real shift. Strip out the number one slot, and the other nine positions grew from 1.66M to 2.09M, up 25.4%. Simulators still lead, but survival more than doubled its share thanks to The Hollow, and obby and escape games vanished from the top 10 entirely after +1 Speed Keyboard Escape slid to 22.9K. The pattern is hard to miss: in October, games with a seasonal event to offer gained ground, and games without one lost it.

Halloween on Roblox: The Events That Moved Players

The Hollow (Roblox Presents)

Roblox’s official event runs from October 22 to November 2 and pulls monsters from nine horror games into one haunted hub, with creators livestreaming inside it daily. Did it move players? Absolutely, in bursts. It reached a 449K peak on RoWatcher and racked up about 133M visits in roughly a week, but it drops sharply between nightly unlocks.

Murder Mystery 2 (Nikilis)

The retro Halloween event added Candy, a 30-tier Battle Pass, the Ember weapon set, Cauldron crafting, Haunted House 2, and a rotation of returning Halloween maps. This was the month’s biggest swing: from 219.4K on GGAID’s October 7 snapshot to 473K on October 29, more than doubling once the event went live.

Adopt Me! (Uplift Games)

Adopt Me! moved first, opening on October 3 and adding weekly content after that. The lift came early and held: GGAID had it at 218.3K on October 7, and RoWatcher showed 218K on October 29, both well above September’s 135.4K.

RIVALS (Nosniy Games)

RIVALSWEEN added the Gargoyle Tower, brought back Zombie Tower, and introduced Candy as an event currency. It produced the cleanest launch spike of the month, from 200,567 to 290,546 players in a week according to Timesaver’s API pulls, but the bump faded, and RIVALS ended October close to where it started.

Brookhaven RP (Brookhaven by Voldex)

Brookhaven’s candy corn hunt went live on October 23, with collectibles spread across the map and a radar to find them. It gave a solid, measurable lift: 344.9K on GGAID’s October 7 snapshot versus 422K on October 29, a gain of about 22% in the back half of the month.

Just Missed the Cut

Positions 11 to 16 on RoWatcher’s October 29 snapshot belong to Dress To Impress (Dress To Impress Group) at 83K, Dandy’s World (BlushCrunch Studio) at 76K, Pet Simulator 99! (BIG Games Pets) at 74K, Catalog Avatar Creator (Muneeb) at 66K, Anime Dice (More & More Games) at 64K, and Fish It! (Fish Atelier) at 64K. Four of the six wore a pumpkin in their titles this month. Two footnotes. A water-themed horror obby called DONT SPLASH sat 11th with 100K players, but trackers credit three different creators, so we left it off until we can verify the developer. Break and Steal an Egg (ILGames x Eggs) is where the trackers disagree most: 53K on RoWatcher, 105.1K on Statroblox. Watch both in November.

What October 2026 Roblox Trends Mean for Game Developers

Lock Your December Event Before November Starts

October’s winners scheduled Halloween well ahead of the holiday. Adopt Me! went live on October 3 and kept dropping weekly beats, RIVALS opened on October 17, and Murder Mystery 2 followed on October 18 with a month-long event window. Blox Fruits, meanwhile, scheduled its Halloween update for October 31 and spent most of the month 44.1% below its September level. The practical implication: build, test, and list your winter event on Roblox’s event calendar by early December at the latest, and plan weekly content beats through the holidays instead of one big drop on Christmas Eve.

Spikes Are Easy, Plateaus Are Earned

October was full of spikes that did not stick. Steal An Egg peaked at 14.3M in September and now sits at 713K. The Hollow jumps toward 449K around its unlocks and falls to tens of thousands in between. RIVALS gained almost 90K at launch and gave most of it back. The flat, healthy lines, like Adopt Me! holding near 218K all month, belong to games with a steady content cadence. The practical implication: treat LiveOps as part of the product from day one, and build your update calendar into your full-cycle game development plan before launch, not after your first spike starts to fade.

A Hit Becomes a Sub-Genre in Weeks

Steal An Egg launched in July. By late October, Statroblox’s new and rising chart was crowded with egg-themed followers, including Break and Steal an Egg, Climb For Animals Eggs, Fake an Egg, Bike For Egg!, Hide to Steal Eggs, and Dig For Eggs. Only one of them cleared 100K players on either tracker. The practical implication: if you build on a trend, you need to ship fast and add a genuine twist the original lacks. If you cannot do both, look at gaps instead. Obby and escape games, for example, aren’t represented in October’s top 10 at all.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the most played Roblox game right now?

As of October 29, 2026 at 20:10 UTC, Steal An Egg and Collect Rare Pets was the most played Roblox game, with 713K concurrent players on RoWatcher, ahead of Murder Mystery 2 at 473K and Brookhaven RP at 422K. Statroblox’s October 30 snapshot also ranked Steal An Egg first, at 931.5K. Live counts swing by hundreds of thousands within a single day, so check a live tracker for the current figure.

What are the best new Roblox games in October 2026?

The standout is The Hollow by Roblox Presents, Roblox’s official Halloween survival event, which opened on October 22 and peaked at 449K concurrent players on RoWatcher. Among other recent releases, Statroblox’s new and rising chart puts Break and Steal an Egg by ILGames x Eggs and Throw Food For Animals by Goofy Chupacabra right behind Steal An Egg, with 105.1K and 89.4K players in its October 30 snapshot.

How long does it take to build a Roblox game?

A simple obby or single-loop game typically takes 4 to 8 weeks. A mid-sized experience with an economy and a live content pipeline usually takes 3 to 6 months, and a large multiplayer title takes longer. The biggest ongoing commitment comes after launch, because the games on this list stay on top by shipping regular updates and seasonal events.

Sources: Live player counts from RoWatcher (snapshot of October 29, 2026, 20:10 UTC), cross-checked against Statroblox (pulled October 30, 2026) and GGAID (snapshot of October 7, 2026). Visits and ratings from Statroblox. Event details from official Roblox listings as reported by GamesBeat, Timesaver, Blobloxpedia, RBLXGUIDE, RPGStash, and Nerdschalk, plus community wikis where noted. Read the previous edition: Top Roblox Games in September 2026.