If you are trying to figure out what to play on Roblox tonight, the official charts are the obvious place to start, but they hold more than one list and the two that matter most measure different things. Top Trending collects experiences whose momentum is rising fast. Top Playing Now collects the experiences with the most people in them at this moment. Top Playing Now is ordered by concurrent players; Top Trending is not. That is why the US trending list has Tribes 3v3 at number three with about 12,000 players, above Evade at number seven with about 61,000. This article is a snapshot we took ourselves on October 20, 2026, with the chart's country set to the United States on PC. The player numbers in the tables are the worldwide concurrent counts the chart prints beside each experience; Roblox does not publish a US only figure, so read them as a sense of how big each experience is overall. Below you will find the US Top Trending ten, the Top Playing Now ten, the experiences that only American players are lifting, and a short comparison with the UK chart from the same day. Rankings change daily, so the capture date stays attached to every number here. If you want to go deeper into one experience, the Roblox game page collects our guides by experience.
What is rising only in the US, and how the UK chart differs
Put the US list next to the other countries from the same day and a few things stand out. Steal Or Die at number nine and WideOpen at number ten were not in the top ten of any of the other 14 chart settings we checked. Steal Or Die gives you minutes to loot a building while something hunts you, or lets you play as the monster, and its official description notes that rarer loot pays more and slows you down. WideOpen is a motorcycle game about wheelies, traffic and outrunning the police, and its creator still labels it a beta. Both lean toward short, chaotic sessions that are easy to play with friends. The US list is also heavy on competitive and fashion experiences at the same time: Tribes 3v3, which its creator says is not meant for casual players, sits at three, while Dress To Impress and Facecard: Makeup Showdown take two of the top six. Blackhawk Rescue Mission 5 at four and Vanguards at five are older experiences riding fresh events, Operation Typhoon and a 2nd Anniversary update. The UK chart from the same day shares most of this but reorders it. Facecard: Makeup Showdown is number one in the UK, Kukirin Life, an e scooter driving game still in testing, is third, and Rally Panic!, a two player rally game where one person drives and the other reads the map, is eighth and in no other country's top ten. Dress To Impress, number one in the US, is not in the UK top ten at all. Across countries the leaders differ too: RIVALS tops Korea, Japan and Taiwan, Heavyweight Fishing tops Vietnam, and Emergency Hamburg tops Germany. Guides for three experiences from these charts pick up from here: All Star Tower Defense, which only Korea and Thailand put in their top ten, the brand new Cat Battles, and Germany's number one, Emergency Hamburg.
US Roblox Top Trending, top 10
| Rank and experience | Players now | Genre | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Dress To Impress | 123,097 | Dress up | Style an outfit to the round's theme, walk the runway and get voted on. The Halloween update is live. |
| 2. Forsaken | 51,470 | Survival (1 vs all) | Survivors finish objectives and hold out until the timer hits zero while the killer tries to take everyone out. |
| 3. Tribes 3v3 | 12,039 | Shooter | 3v3 team combat where you design your own loadout. The creator calls it competitive and not for casual play. Created September 28. |
| 4. Blackhawk Rescue Mission 5 | 20,034 | Open world action | A tactical open world military shooter. The Operation Typhoon event started October 16. |
| 5. Vanguards | 50,729 | Tower defense | Summon units and hold back waves across colliding worlds. Its 2nd Anniversary update landed October 9. |
| 6. Facecard: Makeup Showdown | 38,127 | Dress up | Be the makeup artist, build a look with brushes and tools, and win the vote. Created October 5. |
| 7. Evade | 60,774 | Survival | Outrun the Nextbots with your team. The Halloween event adds Wisps and Spellbooks to collect. |
| 8. First Person Boxing | 4,665 | Fighting | Boxing from a true first person view where you control every slip, counter and knockout. Created September 28. |
| 9. Steal Or Die | 7,402 | Survival (escape) | Loot a building while something hunts you, or play as the monster. Heavier loot pays more and slows you down. |
| 10. WideOpen | 5,660 | Vehicle sim | Ride motorcycles, pull wheelies and outrun the police. The creator says it is still in beta. |
Most played Roblox games right now (Top Playing Now)
| Rank and experience | Players now | Genre | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Steal An Egg | 1,038,680 | Tycoon | Steal eggs, hatch rare pets and raid other players' bases. The only experience above one million. |
| 2. Murder Mystery 2 | 532,340 | Survival (1 vs all) | Innocents, a Sheriff and a Murderer share each round. Live since 2014. |
| 3. Adopt Me! | 237,663 | Pet care roleplay | Adopt and raise pets, trade, and build a home. A Halloween event is running. |
| 4. 99 Nights in the Forest | 191,907 | Survival | Build a camp with friends and last 99 nights while something watches. |
| 5. RIVALS | 168,503 | Shooter | First to five wins duels from 1v1 to 5v5. |
| 6. Blox Fruits | 154,557 | Action RPG | Train as a swordsman or a fruit user and sail between seas. |
| 7. Steal a Brainrot | 137,781 | Tycoon | Buy Brainrots, steal other players' and keep the money coming. |
| 8. Dress To Impress | 123,097 | Dress up | The US trending number one is also eighth by players. |
| 9. Jujutsu Shenanigans | 113,727 | Fighting | Combo and skill based battlegrounds. The SKY ASSASSIN update is live. |
| 10. Dandy's World | 90,331 | Survival (escape) | Team up as Toons, run machines and go deeper into Gardenview Center. |
Things to keep in mind when reading the Roblox charts
- Top Trending is not ordered by player count, which is how Tribes 3v3 with about 12,000 players can rank above Evade with about 61,000.
- The player counts are worldwide, so the same experience shows the same number on every country's chart.
- Top Playing Now was the same list under all 15 chart settings (14 countries plus worldwide) we checked.
- Country taste shows up in Top Trending, Up-and-Coming and Fun with Friends.
- Charts move constantly, so keep the date in mind whenever you quote a ranking.
- Tags such as [UPD] or a pumpkin in front of a name are update and event notes from the creator.
From the chart to your first recorded session
- 1Decide which list you are readingIf you want a full server right away, pick from Top Playing Now; the bigger the player count, the faster matchmaking fills. If you want to try something before everyone else does, pick from Top Trending. In the US list that means experiences like Tribes 3v3 and First Person Boxing, both created in late September.
- 2Check the experience pageEach experience page shows the server size, the last update date and the genre. Cat Battles puts 10 players in a server, Vanguards 24 and Emergency Hamburg 50. That number tells you how many friends can come along, and a very recent update date usually means an event is running.
- 3Bring people with youCompetitive experiences such as Tribes 3v3 or are far more fun with people you know on the same server. If your usual group is busy, the Roblox group finder helps you find players for the same experience.
- 4Install DOR and just joinYour first session in a new experience is the one you will want to rewatch, from figuring out the rules to the first win. With DOR installed on your PC, simply launching Roblox starts the recording, with nothing to press. If you have never recorded Roblox before, start with how to record Roblox gameplay.
- 5Look at the chart again tomorrowTop Trending can change a lot in a day. Check whether the experience you liked keeps climbing and what has appeared overnight. An experience that drops off Top Trending but stays on Top Revisited still has a lot of people coming back to it.
Keep every session you pick from the chart with DOR
All you do is launch Roblox. There is no button to press and nothing to set up: DOR, a free Windows PC app, recognizes the PC version of Roblox and starts AI auto recording the moment you join an experience. When you leave to the home screen, that session lands in your library as one mp4. Game audio and your microphone are recorded together on one track, so the conversation while your group figures out the rules stays in the file, and AI voice notes log what was said with timestamps so you can jump back to the loudest moments. To keep the moment that just happened on its own, press the clip hotkey and the last 30 seconds are saved as a clip, with 15, 30, 45 or 60 seconds to choose from. Recording defaults to 1080p at 30fps, with 60fps available. Pick the clips you saved and press Create highlight, and the AI highlight joins them into one video; trim any part to 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1 and share it with a single dor.gg link. DOR Studio opens right in your browser for text, background music and effect templates. Hop between experiences from the chart all evening and each one is recorded separately, so your library doubles as a log of what you tried. For the experiences on this list, our guides pick up where the chart leaves off, starting with Vanguards and Blackhawk Rescue Mission 5.
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