Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education
Roblox creators are raking in hundreds of thousands a month from simple games like ‘Fisch,’ even as major studios cut jobs and cancel blockbusters.
New: Meet Roblox's teen millionaires. A couple hit games “set them up for life,” according to one 22-year-old dev who calls them “a great source of passive income.” Move over YouTube and Twitch — Roblox is minting the next class of rich, young gamers https://www.bloomberg.com/...
What most fascinated me about Roblox's teen millionaires was their philosophy toward money. Many traded their childhoods for long nights making games. Fisch maker Nate Colley, 19, can now “just make money from money and work for fun.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
“Some games, made in a matter of weeks, earn hundreds of thousands of dollars monthly from fans buying digital items — like a cute hat or an anime greatsword. A truly successful title can reap a teen creator enough money to never work again.” — www.bloomberg.com/news/article..…