17 June — Roblox Corporation (N announced the global rollout of Roblox Kids and Roblox Select accounts, new age-based experiences for users under 16, with protections designed to evolve as children grow.
Following a limited market rollout last month in Australia, Indonesia, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, Roblox Kids and Roblox Select accounts are now available globally. The accounts are designed to align game access, chat features, and parental controls with a user’s age, while giving parents more visibility and flexibility over their child’s experience on Roblox.
Users are automatically placed into the applicable account experience based on Roblox’s age-check systems. The rollout brings together age checks, age-based account settings, content ratings, ongoing moderation, and expanded parental controls into a single framework designed to support younger users as they grow. At launch, age-checked users under 16 will retain access to the vast majority of their favorite games, while the experience for age-checked users 16 and older remains unchanged.
“Children’s needs change significantly as they grow, and online experiences should adapt alongside them,” said Matt Kaufman, Chief Safety Officer at Roblox. “With Roblox Kids and Roblox Select, we’re creating age-based protections designed to support younger users at different stages, while giving parents tools to personalize the experience for their family.”
Roblox Kids and Roblox Select Accounts
Roblox Kids Accounts (Ages 5–8)* include the platform’s strongest default protections. Users can access a catalog of games with Minimal or Mild content maturity labels that have passed Roblox’s continual selection process. Chat is turned off by default.
Roblox Select Accounts (Ages 9–15) provide access to games rated up to Moderate that have passed Roblox’s continual selection process. Chat settings vary by age and region, and additional safeguards remain in place for users under 16.
For both account types, Roblox applies additional review standards to games made available to younger users, including developer verification, real-time evaluation, and enhanced content review. By default, Roblox Kids and Roblox Select catalogs exclude games featuring sensitive issues, social hangouts, and free-form drawing features.
Roblox’s age-based account system automatically progresses users into new account experiences as they age: Users move from Roblox Kids to Roblox Select at age 9, and users move from Roblox Select to standard Roblox accounts at age 16.
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