With a peak player count of 14.2 million, 99 Nights in the Forest has an audience other multiplayer games would kill for: 'To find these behemoth playerbases you need to be on a platform like Roblox'

When I was a kid I might get a videogame for Christmas and another for my birthday, but in between it was free games that filled my time. First shareware, then Flash games. If you were a kid after 2006 though, the free games that defined your childhood probably involved Roblox. In 2025, players spent more than 10 billion hours playing Roblox every month, more hours than they spent on Steam, PlayStation, and Fortnite put together.

One of the big Roblox hits of 2025 was 99 Nights in the Forest, a survival-crafting game that peaked at 14.