Criminal Simulator drops you and up to three friends into a city at night with one job: raise enough money to pay off a debt.
The official Roblox description says it in one breath: rob the city at night with your crew, sneak past residents, outrun the police and their dogs, and sell your loot before the deadline. Then comes the line that sets the stakes: pay off the debt or face the sniper. The tone is lighthearted.
The badge for getting arrested is called BUSTED!, and its description simply reads "Got arrested. Haha!" The experience comes from the Roblox group Pigged Out Studios and was created on October 8, 2026.
As of November 3, its name still carried an [ALPHA] tag and the most recent update had gone live in the early hours of that day (ET), so expect rules and numbers to shift from week to week. We checked Roblox's official data on PC on the morning of November 3, 2026 (ET).
It had about 9.38 million visits, about 15,600 people playing at that moment, about 149,000 favorites and a like ratio of roughly 91 percent. With the chart country set to the United States it was 8th in Top Trending and 11th in Up-and-Coming, and worldwide it was 5th in Up-and-Coming.
Roblox lists its content maturity as Mild, with repeated mild violence. This guide covers only what the official description, the badges and Roblox's own data confirm. Loot values per house, item locations and route tricks have not been published, so they are left out.
The short version: steal at night, sell before the deadline, clear the debt
Everything in Criminal Simulator feeds one loop. You head out at night, take what you can, and turn it into money by selling it before the deadline. The badges also mention a quota, and Quota Met is awarded for meeting your first one.
The end goal is the debt: the Debt Free badge describes finishing Classic mode with the words "You are a free man." Fail to pay it off and, as the description puts it, you face the sniper. Roblox's own badge counts as of November 3 show how this plays out for real players.
First Score, for stealing your first item, has been awarded about 2.63 million times. Quota Met is at about 1.66 million, Debt Free at about 233,000, the Hard Mode win at about 19,000 and the Pro Mode win at about 4,200. Meanwhile BUSTED!
sits at about 2.17 million and Sniped at about 946,000. Put simply, most players get arrested at least once, and fewer than one in ten who made a first score have cleared Classic so far.
So treat your first nights as scouting runs: learn where residents are, when the police and their dogs come after you, and how much time selling takes, then plan the next night around that.
Getaways come down to quick reactions, so if the city stutters at night, run through Roblox FPS boost settings before your crew heads out.
Your first night in Criminal Simulator, step by step
- 1Join the right experience and gather your crewSearch Roblox for Criminal Simulator. The one this guide covers is made by the group Pigged Out Studios and, as of November 3, shows [ALPHA] after its name. The description says the game supports 1 to 4 players, and the simplest way to start in the same server is for one friend to join first while everyone else opens that friend's profile and clicks Join Experience. That button appears when the friend allows others to join them.
- 2Try the obby in the lobbyBefore any heist there is a lobby with its own obby, and finishing it earns the Rooftop Runner badge. As of November 3, only about 42,000 players had that badge, so it is a small challenge of its own and a good way to get used to the controls before the night starts.
- 3Make your first score without waking the neighborhoodYour first goal is First Score, the badge for stealing your first item. The description asks you to sneak past residents, so check where people are before you grab anything and move carefully around homes. Bigger targets come later: badges exist for burning into a safe with a blowtorch (Safe Breaker), taking The Starry Night painting (Art Thief) and robbing an armored truck (Armored Robbery).
- 4Outrun the police and their dogs, then sell before the deadlineWhen the police come after you, the description says to outrun them and their dogs. The loot has to be sold before the deadline, so leave enough time to sell instead of grabbing until the clock runs out. Stolen cars can be sold too, which earns the Chop Shop badge, and meeting your first quota earns Quota Met.
- 5Clear the debt in Classic, then try Hard, Pro or EndlessPaying off the debt finishes Classic mode and earns Debt Free. After that, the badges point to more ways to play: a win in Hard Mode, a win in Pro Mode and quota milestones (#10 and #25) in Endless Mode. Your level also climbs as you play, with badges at levels 10, 25, 50, 100 and 200. Miss the payment and, per the official description, the sniper is waiting; there is a Sniped badge too.
What official sources confirm in Criminal Simulator, and the moment worth keeping
| Element | What official sources confirm | Moment worth keeping on video |
|---|---|---|
| Crew | The description says 1 to 4 players; servers are listed for up to 16. | The plan your crew makes before the first house, so the chaos later has context. |
| Residents | The description tells you to sneak past residents. | The second someone gets spotted, starting a few seconds before it. |
| Police and dogs | Outrun the police and their dogs; badges exist for getting arrested (BUSTED!) and for breaking into the police station. | The whole chase, from the moment you are noticed to the arrest or the getaway. |
| Big targets | Badges for burning into a safe with a blowtorch, stealing The Starry Night painting, selling a stolen car and robbing an armored truck. | Your first armored truck job; as of November 3, only about 6,100 players had that badge. |
| Deadline and quota | Sell your loot before the deadline; Quota Met is awarded for your first quota. | The last seconds before the deadline while the crew is still selling. |
| Debt and sniper | Pay off the debt to finish Classic mode (Debt Free); otherwise the description says you face the sniper, and a Sniped badge exists. | Both endings make good Shorts: the Debt Free moment and the moment the sniper shows up. |
| Modes and updates | Hard, Pro and Endless modes; a badge for entering the desert for the first time added on October 22, and Rusty's Journal, for returning the journal to Rusty, added on November 1. | Your crew's first trip into the desert. |
Before your crew heads out
- You joined the Criminal Simulator made by the group Pigged Out Studios.
- Your crew is 1 to 4 players and everyone is in the same server through Join Experience.
- Someone keeps an eye on the deadline so the loot gets sold in time.
- Everyone knows getting arrested is normal early on; the BUSTED! badge had about 2.17 million awards as of November 3.
- If Roblox closes as soon as you join, you went through fixing Roblox crashes on PC first.
Keep every heist, chase and arrest in Criminal Simulator with DOR
Install DOR, a free Windows PC app, and it detects when you join and leave a Roblox experience and records that time automatically.
Every night out in Criminal Simulator lands in My Clips without you pressing record, so the house where a resident turned around, the dog chase through the streets and the last second sale before the deadline are all there when you finish.
Game audio and your microphone are recorded together on one track, so your reactions stay in the clip too. Afterwards, open My Clips, find the moment, trim it and choose 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1. To turn a whole night into one video, merge several clips in DOR Studio (dor.gg/studio); the steps are in how to merge game clips.
Add an effect template such as Shake Zoom or a glitch transition right at the arrest, adjust text, background music and volume, then export an mp4 or share a dor.gg link that plays straight in a phone browser. The full flow for sending Roblox videos is in how to share Roblox gameplay videos.
The free plan records at 720p or 1080p and 30 or 60fps, with 1080p 30fps as the default. As recordings pile up, older videos are cleared only when the full gameplay storage share (5GB by default) is exceeded, and your latest recordings and liked videos stay.
