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Roburbia review: scale, price, and pace

Roburbia is a small, new life sim next to two much older Roblox towns. I am not scoring it out of ten. The useful comparison on 10 Nov 2026 is scale, server size, and what you pay. Roburbia had been public for about three weeks. Bloxburg dates to 2014 and Brookhaven to 2020. A three or four order-of-magnitude gap in visits is the fact. It is not a verdict that one game is better.

RoburbiaBloxburgBrookhaven
Visits3,282,63610,161,172,81989,383,514,275
Playing then3,2558,289172,713
Server size151230
Favorites72,07014,040,88330,934,188
Likes / dislikes8,059 / 1,5005,651,525 / 734,2988,737,668 / 1,434,279
Created14 Jun 20264 Nov 201421 Apr 2020
Game priceFreeFreeFree

These rows are one reading of the public Roblox record collected during the 10 Nov 2026 research session (1 official source). Playing counts move by the minute. I dated the whole table 10 Nov 2026 and I will not refresh one cell without the others. Like ratios that day were about 84% for Roburbia, about 88% for Bloxburg, and about 86% for Brookhaven. I leave them as ratios of the counts above, not as a star rating.

Roburbia town square with a family and stroller
Official Roburbia gallery. Lúmen Studio / Roblox, 10 Nov 2026.

What you pay

All three games were free to enter in that reading. Roburbia sells nine optional passes from 99 to 299 Robux. I am not writing historical prices for Bloxburg or Brookhaven, because I did not re-check their old store pages for this table. Inside Roburbia, coins are separate from Robux: jobs pay coins, and the delivery truck is a coin purchase.

What the town is trying to be

The developer called The Sims 2 a large influence, including zodiac signs and personalities, and said NPCs remember you. Babies are adoptable and have needs. Servers hold 15, which is closer to a household than to Brookhaven’s 30. Building is part of the pitch: five save slots if you buy BUILD SLOTS, free-form placement if you buy ADVANCED PLACING. I do not have a side-by-side of build tools against Bloxburg that I am willing to print. That cell stays empty.

A Roburbia nursery from the official gallery
Official gallery: nursery. Lúmen Studio / Roblox, 10 Nov 2026.

If you want a crowded social map, the visit counts say Brookhaven is where people already are. If you want a quiet lot, a baby with needs, and a job you clock into, Roburbia is the one whose official description says that. Both can be true. The trailer on the home page is the studio’s own 45 seconds from 19 Oct 2026.

Questions

Is Roburbia worth playing?

It is free to enter and still in beta. The public record on 10 Nov 2026 showed a few thousand people online, not the hundreds of thousands on Brookhaven. Whether that pace is what you want is the actual choice.

Is Roburbia like Bloxburg?

Both are life sims with building. Roburbia’s published differences are babies with needs, a 15-player server, and optional passes from 99 to 299 Robux. A tool-by-tool build comparison is not in this table.

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