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PC Gamer
Mollie Taylor

I played the Roblox hit that's pulled in 10 billion visits and while I'm not sold on it, I can see how it's cultivated a mass following

A Roblox person holding a very giant tomato in Grow a Garden.

I fear Grow a Garden's entire premise was ruined for me less than 30 minutes in when I was given a gigantic watermelon by another player, which then turned out to be worth 800,000 sheckles. I was still barely scraping 1,000 from my handful of strawberry and blueberry bushes, and in a flash the joys of 'number go bigger' had been felled at the hands of a kind stranger.

Even before this point, I couldn't quite understand what it is about Grow a Garden that's caused it to become one of the most popular experiences on Roblox right now. When I was playing it during an early weekday afternoon, the Roblox app claimed to have 3.2 million people growing and cultivating their own non-denominational toy brick farms, with over 10.1 billion visits since it launched in late March.

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