October 2026 belongs to a game that didn't exist when summer started. Steal An Egg launched on July 25, 2026 and, by the middle of September, had more than 14 million people playing at the same moment, according to the public tracker Rolimons.
It's also only No. 6 on this list, because a ten-week-old game hasn't yet shown it can last.
This corner of Roblox turns over quickly. Three of the six games we ranked back in April now peak below 3,500 players, so the list has been rebuilt from scratch for the month.
For this list, a simulator is any game built around a loop you repeat to grow something: fish, sell, upgrade. As a result, a fishing trip, a restaurant and an egg heist can all share one ranking.
Half of the eight picks below come from solo developers and small independent teams. After all, the biggest studios already get plenty of attention.
What are the best Roblox simulator games in October 2026? Our eight picks, in order, are Fisch, Bee Swarm Simulator, Ride A Pet, Restaurant Tycoon 3, Pet Simulator 99, Steal An Egg, Storage Hunters: Open World and Mine Antarctica. Each one has thousands of players online this month, an approval rating above 90 percent and a developer still shipping updates.
The October List At A Glance
The table below sets the eight side by side before the details. A 30-day peak is the largest number of people playing at the same time, known as concurrent players, during the past month.
| # | Simulator | Made by | Live since | 30-day peak | Approval | Avg. session | Adellion score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fisch | WoozyNate (built solo) | Oct 2024 | 439,065 | 90.8% | 29 min | 9.3 |
| 2 | Bee Swarm Simulator | Onett (solo developer) | 2018 | 27,716 | 95.6% | 25 min | 9.1 |
| 3 | Ride A Pet | “this game is gud” (Roblox group) | Apr 2026 | 1,417,179 | 96.9% | 15 min | 8.8 |
| 4 | Restaurant Tycoon 3 | Ultraw (independent) | May 2025 | 33,593 | 95.3% | 31 min | 8.7 |
| 5 | Pet Simulator 99 | BIG Games (big studio) | Dec 2023 | 89,372 | 94.7% | 111 min | 8.6 |
| 6 | Steal An Egg | “and Collect Rare Pets” (Roblox group) | Jul 2026 | 14,293,524 | 92.5% | 16 min | 8.4 |
| 7 | Storage Hunters: Open World | Absolute Zero! (small team) | Jun 2026 | 38,647 | 94.6% | 29 min | 8.1 |
| 8 | Mine Antarctica | PolarMine Games (Roblox group) | Jul 2026 | 10,749 | 97.4% | 26 min | 7.9 |
Source: Rolimons, a public Roblox statistics tracker, captured on the evening of October 1, 2026 (US Central time). Average session is Rolimons' estimate of the time spent per visit.
All eight are free to play and sell optional boosts for Robux. If you're setting one up for a younger player, our Roblox safety settings guide covers spending limits and parental controls.
How We Ranked These
This is an editorial ranking built on public information, and here's exactly where the numbers come from. Player counts, approval ratings and session lengths are from Rolimons, captured on the evening of October 1, 2026, and they change by the hour.
First, every game had to clear the same four bars:
- A live crowd. Thousands of players online at once this month, judged by 30-day peak.
- Players who like it. At least 90 percent of player votes positive, as Rolimons reports them from each game's Roblox page.
- A developer still shipping. Every pick has been updated in 2026, and seven of the eight were patched in the week before our snapshot, while the eighth, Bee Swarm Simulator, was last updated about a month earlier.
- Somewhere to go. Progression that lasts past the first hour, judged from each game's published feature list, developer notes and patch history.
From there, the order weighs track record, momentum and depth. The Adellion score beside each game is our editorial judgment out of 10, a summary of the case made in the write-up, and it isn't a measurement.
One more rule shaped the list: half of it had to come from independent developers.
Four picks qualify: Fisch, Bee Swarm Simulator, Restaurant Tycoon 3 and Storage Hunters: Open World. One comes from a big studio, and three are published by Roblox groups whose pages don't credit named developers.
Developer details come from each game's creator page, the Roblox Developer Forum and the developers' own published update notes.
How are the simulators on this list ranked? Each game must show thousands of concurrent players this month, at least 90 percent positive player votes, updates during 2026 and progression with real depth, and the order then weighs track record, momentum and depth. Player numbers come from the public tracker Rolimons, captured on October 1, 2026.
The Best Roblox Simulators To Play In October 2026
Now the eight in full, from the top. Each entry opens with who made the game and the numbers behind its place.
1. Fisch
Fisch is a fishing and exploration game. You hold to cast, wait for a bite, win a short reeling minigame, then sell the catch and put the money into better rods and new islands.
Its Roblox page promises more than 400,000 possible variations of each fish, and that's what turns a calm routine into a collector's long game.
What's more, it has the best origin story on this list. According to Roblox's own Creator Spotlight, developer WoozyNate scripted, modeled and built Fisch alone in about four months, taking inspiration from the fishing in Stardew Valley, before it launched in October 2024.
The game's official wiki says it was sold to Do Big Studios a month after launch and returned to its original developer's control in 2025.
Two years on, its 30-day peak of roughly 439,000 concurrent players is the largest of the four games here that are more than a year old. The developers' September patch notes list a Skycrest event and a Boat Racing update with new tracks and two rod mastery questlines.
Play it if you want a calm game you can dip into for twenty minutes or lose a weekend to.
2. Bee Swarm Simulator
Bee Swarm Simulator is the work of a single developer, Onett, and it has been running since 2018. You grow a swarm of bees, collect pollen, turn it into honey, and take quests from a cast of bears while pushing further up the mountain.
Nearly eight years after launch, it set its all-time record of 264,505 concurrent players on December 29, 2025, days after that winter's Beesmas update. It's also the best-liked of the list's four older games, with a 95.6 percent approval rating.
Beyond honey, the game's Roblox page lists bugs and monsters to fight, treasures hidden around the map and new types of bees, each with its own traits.
Keep in mind that updates arrive on one person's schedule, so new content lands more slowly than it does at a big studio.
Play it if you like building something up over months, a little at a time.
3. Ride A Pet
Ride A Pet launched on April 14, 2026, published by a Roblox group called “this game is gud”. Your pet is also your mount, and a faster mount lets you carry rarer eggs home before they crack.
You use a radar to find eggs scattered around a shared map and carry each one back to a nest on your ranch. Once it hatches, the new pet sits on your plot and earns cash for better radars and hatch luck.
Plus, mutations and rebirths give the collection somewhere to go once the first few pets are in place.
It outranks older games because it was still setting records in its sixth month: the all-time peak of more than 1.4 million players online at once came in the final week of September. With 96.9 percent of player votes positive, it's also the best-liked game in our top five.
Play it if you like exploring a map and bringing home something rarer each trip.
4. Restaurant Tycoon 3
Restaurant Tycoon 3 comes from Ultraw, the independent developer behind Restaurant Tycoon 2, and it's published under the creator's own account. You cook dishes, serve customers, hire staff and build out the restaurant, and the feature list runs to farming, multiple floors, a rush hour, franchising and a drive-thru.
It's also one of the most actively updated games here, with a patch in each week of September on the developer's update log. The latest, a Band Update featuring Glass Animals, arrived on September 26 with an in-game concert, and the 30-day peak of about 33,600 players came that same weekend.
An Earn Offline update at the end of August means the restaurant keeps making money while you're away. Naturally, that suits anyone who plays a few times a week.
Play it if you'd rather run a business than chase a rare drop.
5. Pet Simulator 99
Pet Simulator 99 is the one big-studio game on this list. BIG Games launched it on December 1, 2023, and its Roblox page now counts more than 3,000 pets to collect.
Rolimons estimates the average visit at about 111 minutes, by far the longest session of any game here, and counts more than 900 million visits to the game's Trading Plaza alone.
The studio is still shipping weekly, too: its developer blog lists four numbered updates in September, ending with Update 95, Space Forge. Keep in mind that a newcomer joins a game with nearly three years and 95 numbered updates of systems already in place.
Play it if collecting and trading are the whole point for you.
6. Steal An Egg
Steal An Egg has by far the largest crowd on this list, with a 30-day peak about ten times that of the next game, Ride A Pet. It launched on July 25, 2026, peaked above 14 million concurrent players in mid-September, and still had more than one million people online on an ordinary Thursday night, October 1, according to Rolimons.
You steal eggs, hatch them into pets that earn money, and upgrade your base and a treadmill that makes you faster. Then you defend the haul, because other players can steal from you.
So why sixth and not first? A game that's ten weeks old hasn't yet shown staying power, and an average session of about 16 minutes points to quick visits more than a long-term hobby.
It'll move up this list if the crowd is still there in winter.
Play it if you like raiding other players and don't mind being raided back.
7. Storage Hunters: Open World
Storage Hunters: Open World turns the storage-auction reality show into a simulator. It comes from Absolute Zero!, a small group whose page credits two developers, Peaspod and Lethal682, and whose earlier game was the auction title Bid Battles.
You pay an entry fee, look inside a locker and bid against rival auctioneers in a timing minigame, then haul your winnings back to your own shop, where customers make offers you can accept or refuse. Every locker is a small bet on what you think the contents are worth, so the game rewards judgment more than grinding.
Play it if you like haggling, flipping and the thrill of a good find.
8. Mine Antarctica
Mine Antarctica is the smallest game on the list and one of two that arrived in July, and it set its all-time record of 10,749 concurrent players on October 1, the day of the Rolimons snapshot. You climb a mountain with a pickaxe, mining crystals as you go, while the temperature drops the higher you get.
Stay up too long and your health drains, so every run becomes a decision about when to turn back and sell.
Its Roblox page promises a new mining zone every hour. At 97.4 percent, it also has the highest approval rating of the eight games ranked here.
Play it if you like push-your-luck runs where the only question is one more climb or cash out.
What Changed Since April, And Who Missed The Cut
First, here's how April's six picks have held up. All figures are from Rolimons, captured on October 1, 2026.
| April rank | Simulator | 30-day peak, October 1 | All-time peak | October verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pet Simulator 99 | 89,372 | 732,936 (December 2023) | Stays, now No. 5 |
| 2 | Anime Champions Simulator | 33 | 142,601 (October 2023) | Dropped |
| 3 | Bee Swarm Simulator | 27,716 | 264,505 (December 2025) | Stays, now No. 2 |
| 4 | Fisch | 439,065 | 1,273,618 (October 2025) | Stays, now No. 1 |
| 5 | Strongman Simulator | 1,914 | 79,074 (July 2021) | Dropped |
| 6 | The Forge | 3,233 | 1,051,531 (December 2025) | Dropped |
Three games held their place and three didn't. The Forge shows how fast things move: it passed a million players online at once last December and now peaks at a little over 3,000, although our list of working The Forge codes is still there for anyone who never left.
A few famous names are missing from the new list as well. The cut reflects October's numbers only, and the notable omissions include:
- Grow a Garden. The farming game set its all-time record of roughly 22 million concurrent players in August 2025 and now has a 30-day peak of about 158,000, according to Rolimons. Its approval rating of 89.9 percent sits a hair under our 90 percent bar.
- Fish It! It had more players online than Fisch at the time of our snapshot, but only 82.9 percent of its votes are positive. Its own description also says it was inspired by Fisch.
- Steal a Brainrot and Adopt Me! Their 30-day peaks are still about 1.7 million and 835,000, but their approval ratings, 85.2 and 86.2 percent respectively, fall short of the bar.
All of these could return. A strong update can change a 30-day peak within a week, and this list is rebuilt when the numbers move.
What is the most popular Roblox simulator right now? Of the games we tracked, Steal An Egg, by a wide margin: on October 1, 2026 it had more than one million players online and a 30-day peak above 14 million, according to Rolimons. Among our other picks, Ride A Pet came closest, with a 30-day peak of about 1.4 million.
Four More On Our Radar
Finally, four more simulators came close on the same Rolimons snapshot. With only eight places, each one lost out for a specific reason, and the ones we're watching for November are:
- Run a Restaurant! A cook, build and farm restaurant game with the highest approval rating of any game named in this article, 98.7 percent. It missed because Restaurant Tycoon 3 covers the same ground with a larger crowd: a 30-day peak of 33,593 against 12,914.
- Prospecting! A relaxed gold-panning game in which sluices keep working while you're offline. Its 30-day peak of about 12,500 is well below its 2025 high of about 182,000, which is why it sits behind the newer, still-rising Mine Antarctica.
- Karinderya! A co-op game about running a Filipino eatery that peaked at roughly 295,000 players at once in the second half of September. It's only a few weeks old, and it was back under 10,000 players online at our snapshot.
- +1 Loot To Forge. Part of this fall's wave of “+1” games, named for the stat you gain with every click or step. It reached about 104,000 players at once, but at seven weeks old it's younger than any of the eight picks.
Each of these has an approval rating above 96 percent, so any of them could move up.
How To Pick The Right Simulator For You
Eight good options is still too many to start at once. Here's a short way to narrow it down.
Which Roblox simulator is best for beginners? Ride A Pet and Restaurant Tycoon 3 are the easiest starts on this list. Ride A Pet explains itself in one sentence (find eggs and hatch faster pets), while Restaurant Tycoon 3 keeps earning when you're offline, so your progress continues between visits.
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are short answers to a few practical questions about the games on this list.
Are Roblox simulators free to play in 2026?
Yes, every simulator on this list is free to join through Roblox, and none requires a purchase to start playing. Each one also sells optional extras for Robux, such as the luck boosts and extra pet slots in Pet Simulator 99.
How often is this list updated?
We rebuild it when the player numbers shift enough to change the order. This edition was rebuilt at the start of October 2026 and replaced three of the six games from the April 2026 version.
Which simulator has the longest play sessions?
Pet Simulator 99. Rolimons estimates its average visit at about 111 minutes, more than three times the next-longest session on this list, which is Restaurant Tycoon 3 at about 31 minutes.
Do I need a powerful PC to play Roblox simulators?
No: Roblox runs on modest hardware, and Steal An Egg and Ride A Pet both state that they support desktop, console, mobile and tablet. If you do play long sessions at a desk, our gaming monitor guide is worth a look.
Are codes still worth redeeming?
Usually, yes: developers often release a code with each update, as Fisch did with its Boat Racing update on September 26, and codes tend to expire. Our Dress to Impress codes page shows how quickly they rotate.
Where To Start
Overall, start with Fisch or Bee Swarm Simulator if you want depth, and try Ride A Pet or Steal An Egg if you want to see what the crowd is excited about. If the solo-developer stories above make you want to build something yourself, our guide to how to make a Roblox game starts from zero.
Are there good indie simulators on Roblox? Yes: Bee Swarm Simulator is made by one developer, Onett, and Fisch was built solo by WoozyNate before it grew into one of the platform's biggest fishing games. Restaurant Tycoon 3 and Storage Hunters: Open World also come from independent developers, and all four are on our October list.
When you're ready for a change of pace, our rankings of the best Roblox horror games and the best Roblox tower defense games are good next reads. Our guides to Roblox obby games and Roblox roleplay games cover two more corners of the platform.
For younger players, our list of Roblox games for young kids is the better starting point.
