Over 80% of Roblox's Top 100 Games are AI-Assissted, Topping 70,000 AI Games

As usual, generative AI appears to be splitting the gaming industry in half. While Valve recently acknowledged the issue of AI-generated clones on Steam—although declined to actually do anything about it—Roblox just published a shareholder letter in which it boasts that "AI-enabled game creation, automation in code generation and AI supported asset creation are leading to an explosion of content" since it launched its AI assisted game builder tools.

The letter adds that over 80% of its top 100 games by hours played in the month of September were AI assisted, while the raw number of games created with its Build generative AI platform topped 70,000 since Q2. Usage of Roblox's AI tools for game development more than tripled among top creators. It also notes that in Q3, two games "created almost entirely with AI" managed to break into the top 20 Roblox game ranking by concurrent player count. Read full story