Roblox

[BriocheBuns]

My 7 year old is addicted, what is this game about like what is the purpose? I’ve had a wee watch while she plays and it looks innocent but should I be worried? x

It’s not a game OP, it’s a platform for people to share and play games online. There’s 40 million games on there or something like that. The content is extremely varied from what our school keep warning us about - it needs a lot of checking for kids as young as 7 to be using it

@SusanNightingale

It is the most gruesome game in existence. My son played it and he tried to murder 3 people at school the next day. Do NOT let her play that horrid game. However, there are substitutes. GTA V (gta 5) for example is harmless and intellectual. It would help her learn. Also, call of duty is a perfect children's game, as it is fun, colourful, and bright.

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Do some research and decide for yourself maybe?

Harmless imo. But then I'm very up to date gaming wise as I also love gaming so I don't mind my kids playing it.

I’d suggest you read about it on common sense media

Can be good but needs parental supervision.

My 10 year old used to play it, but only where I could see him. There are tons of age appropriate games, mine liked dinosaur zoo ones. But be very careful, it's also got a load of weirdos on it. Mine isn't allowed add people he doesn't know face to face, and only allowed use chat with the people knows (his brother, cousin and a few school friends).

Adopt Me on Roblox is good fun for small children but I would suggest you ensure he doesn't accept friend requests from strangers. Regularly check the chat box on Roblox go see if anyone tries to talk to him online.

The games are good but think you can disable the chat function so she can’t be contacted by strangers. That’s the main problem I think. Don’t always know who may be trying to talk to your child.

DD loves it
I would recommend turning off chat and linking to your email so you can do a check up.
Don't add a bank card, it will allow them to pay for all sorts very easily and they can be hacked (not often bufi personally wouldn't link my card)
DD plays Fashion Frenzy and Adopt me. Not really had drama, she plays with mates from school.

It's weird and addictive. We stopped DS1 playing it as it didn't have any play value - and we are not game snobs. There haven't been any other games we have banned. He was constantly playing "tycoon" type games where all you would do was jump on a button 100 times then move to another button and jump on that

Maybe it's improved since then, this was several years ago, but we haven't found any compelling reason to un-ban it. He is allowed Fortnite and Minecraft.

Mine play it in the locked down, chat function disabled mode. It's set with a time limit on it as well of an hour max a day as they were getting ridiculous with it - and they know I will block it completely if there's any more nonsense. It's at least made it more focused when they DO use it - in that they won't waste hours playing absolute shite but will go on with an intention to play X game and do certain goals in it and then log off it.

They only add friends after checking with me if it's another child that they know in real life and whose parents I could get in touch with if needed to sort out any nonsense - and DD1 in particular is very good at telling me if she's getting any unsolicited friend requests and blocking them.

I don't like it and the kids know I don't particularly like it - but I tend to take the line of learning to use online stuff responsibly and not making a huge thing out of it being forbidden and therefore more desirable.