Roblox morning briefing — October 25, 2026: Murder Mystery 2 tops Roblox on a count its own trackers call mostly bots, and Brazil's runoff fills Brookhaven
Murder Mystery 2 is Roblox's most-played game this morning on a count its own news accounts put at 70–90% bots, Brazil's presidential runoff has moved into Brookhaven despite Roblox's political-content ban, and The Hollow's third night added five rewards before Roblox even named its monster.
The number at the top of Roblox's playing-now chart this morning belongs to Murder Mystery 2, with 1,869,009 players connected at 08:10. 12 The accounts that follow the game for a living say most of that count is bots. 3
Brazilians vote today in the second round of their presidential election, and the campaign has been running inside Brookhaven, in a form Roblox's own standards forbid. 45
The Hollow named Biter as its third night's monster at 01:38 this morning, two hours after five new rewards started paying out. 67
This edition covers the 24 hours to 08:00 on Sunday 25 October. Times are Central European; the clocks went back at 03:00 this morning, so Saturday night's times read on summer time.
Murder Mystery 2 sits on top of Roblox, and its own trackers call most of it bots
Roblox's Top Playing Now chart ranks experiences by concurrent users. At 08:10 it put Murder Mystery 2 first, ahead of Steal An Egg on 1,520,581. 12
The climb took three mornings. The same read gave 657,229 on Friday, 1,274,657 on Saturday and 1,869,009 today. 2
The listing offers one candidate for that: a Halloween 2026 event card, "A retro Halloween", marked New content. The listing itself has not changed since Wednesday, so the same card sat there on Friday, when the count was 657,229. 8
The accounts that follow MM2 all year read the figure as a bot count. MM2 Overview put Saturday's peak at 1,603,229 and wrote that 450,000 of those, 28%, were legitimate. 3
Colbe, an MM2 news creator with 10,200 followers, put it higher: nearly 90% bots, and a normal server getting harder to find. 9
MM2 Sigma News landed between them, at 1.1 million to 1.3 million bots out of Saturday's 1.5 million, and described the effect for players as "grinding is impossible". 10
August supplies the scale. When Roblox moved against bot accounts then, MM2's count fell by about 500,000 in a day. 11
One tracker logged 200,000 to 300,000 players during the stretch when the bots could not join. 12
A long-running analysis of the game argues its drawing power is the item economy, with rare items traded, farmed, collected and resold, and asks how much of the resulting activity is people. 13
Roblox's chart publishes one figure per experience, and its API returns a single concurrent count, so a person and a farming account land in the same field. 1
The last public word from Roblox on MM2's bots, as Colbe relayed it in August, said removals would return the game's statistics to real accounts. 14
Shorts angle: put the chart on screen, then the server list under it. One says 1.8 million; the other shows the same avatar standing in every slot. The audience closes the gap in about eight seconds.
Brazil's runoff moved into Brookhaven, where Roblox's own standards forbid campaign events
Brazilians vote today in the second round between Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro. 4
The campaign has also run inside Roblox for the past week, in a form the Brazilian press calls carreatas: avatars in cars, horn-honking, placards, and mostly Brookhaven. 5
Lula's supporters arrive in red with signs backing him. Flávio Bolsonaro's wear green and yellow, carry Brazilian flags and hold placards reading "é 22". 5
The gatherings are arranged off the platform, through Instagram pages that post times, server links and WhatsApp groups. One of those pages had about 17,000 followers when G1 looked at it. 5
CHOQUEI, a Brazilian news account with 9.4 million followers, posted the screenshots overnight with the line that Lula's supporters had filled Roblox servers. 15
Roblox's press office answered G1 and Estadão with the rule itself. It said the platform values cordial debate. 516
Its Community Standards, the company said, prohibit "the representation of content related to political figures and entities, including candidates running for public office, along with their slogans, campaign materials, rallies or events". 516
Estadão read the standards and found the ban reaches representations inside user-made experiences, which puts a Brookhaven carreta on the wrong side of it. 16
Both outlets record the same stopping point: Roblox confirmed the rule and left open what it will do about the rallies themselves. 516
Brazilian election law runs on a separate track. The TSE's resolution 23.610/2019 protects spontaneous statements by voters online, inside the usual legal limits. 5
Marcelo Mattoso, a lawyer who works on games and technology, told Estadão that an action staged by a campaign inside a game can count as election advertising on the internet, while players acting on their own sit elsewhere. 16
Brookhaven carried 413,336 players at 08:10 this morning, against 404,973 at the same hour yesterday. 2
Each server holds 30 players, so one rally fills a city and the next player to join lands in a quiet copy of it. 5
Shorts angle: the placards are legible inside the game, which is what makes this filmable. Record one server while voting is on today, then hold the same shot against the empty street a minute after the rally moves.
The Hollow's third night: Biter, and five rewards that landed first
Roblox posted at 01:38 this morning: "all bite. no bark. tonight, Biter is hungry for you in The Hollow." 6
The post had 63,200 views by 09:00. Biter is Demonology's monster, one of the nine Roblox put into the event. 617
The rewards arrived before the post did. The hub's badge list held 13 rewards at 08:12 yesterday and 18 at 08:10 today. 7
| New reward | Awards | In the past day | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Festering Felix | 352,719 | 347,730 | Sat 23:30 |
| Biter Fedora | 239,881 | 236,450 | Sat 23:32 |
| Burned Necrobloxicon | 155,294 | 154,062 | Sat 23:08 |
| Cowboy Hat of the Dead | 137,338 | 135,040 | Sat 23:34 |
| Trick or Treat Squid | 88,285 | 87,848 | Sat 23:08 |
Each of the five carries an update stamp from between 23:08 and 23:34 on Saturday night, and nearly every award it holds arrived inside the past day. 7
Across all 18 rewards, awards went from 10.2 million yesterday morning to 15.9 million this morning. 7
The hub itself has 59,884,506 visits and 46,370 players at 08:10. Yesterday those read 41,275,706 and 36,440. 218
One of the five has a catalogue page: the Biter Fedora, made by Roblox, created on Saturday morning and described as "A tip of the hat and a flash of teeth." 19
Three creator streams stay on the hub's rail: Biter with Vani and Kyle at 16:00 today, The Deer with Bundun at 23:00 on Monday, Hiachi with Kim Left Arm at 13:00 on Tuesday. 18
Shorts angle: the badge list is a scoreboard anyone can read. Screen-record the five new names appearing, then your own run at the one you want; the gap between 88,285 and 352,719 tells the audience which is hard.
Top Fall Games to Watch
Every date was read this morning from the game's own listing. Times are Central European, on winter time from today.
- The Hollow — Biter streams with Vani and Kyle at 16:00 today, The Deer with Bundun at 23:00 on Monday, Hiachi with Kim Left Arm at 13:00 on Tuesday. 18 Pitch: film the moment the streamer's round starts, then your own attempt at the same monster in the same minute.
- Murder Mystery 2 — Halloween 2026, "A retro Halloween", is live and open to join. 8 Pitch: walk one round and count how many players in it respond to you, then set that against the 1.8 million on the chart.
- Tower Defense Simulator — Solar Requiem Night III is live; Night IV opens at 17:00 on Friday 30 October. 20 Pitch: clear Night III tonight and hold the footage, so the Night IV clip opens with what the audience knows it has to beat.
- Adopt Me! — Halloween Week 4 is live, 2D Tuesday returns at midnight on Wednesday, and the Halloween Bonus Weekend starts at 17:05 on Friday 30 October. 21 Pitch: the bonus weekend doubles bucks and XP, so film one pet grinded inside it against the same hour outside it.
- Dandy's World — "Only Two Weeks Left!" is live and "Final Week of Halloween!" starts at 20:00 on Friday 30 October. 22 Pitch: Twisted Dandy is the monster the audience met in The Hollow, so film its home game while the event is still running.
- Dress To Impress — the Halloween update and the Tales of the Dark King quest are both live, with no date on either card. 23 Pitch: one outfit brief, two runs, the Halloween round and the quest, cut as before and after.
- Animal Hospital — Halloween Part 2 opens at 20:00 on Saturday 31 October, on Halloween night itself. 24 Pitch: film one clean shift now and keep it for the comparison when Part 2 lands.
Closing notes
Live counts at 08:10: Murder Mystery 2 1,869,009; Steal An Egg 1,520,581; Brookhaven 413,336; 99 Nights in the Forest 267,809; RIVALS 217,882; Adopt Me! 179,487; Blox Fruits 177,720; Break and Steal an Egg 120,086; Dandy's World 99,944; Dress To Impress 96,135; Fisch 85,679; Fish It! 83,716; DOORS 64,353; Forsaken 48,279; The Hollow 46,370; Cat Battles 39,066; Animal Hospital 34,521; Demonology 19,372; Tower Defense Simulator 18,165; Piggy 13,726; The Mimic 3,825; Duck Duck 3,211; BOMBANANA! 1,447; Caramel 1,223; WARDEN 1,181; Total Drama Island 339; Drifters 0. 2
Murder Mystery 2 added 594,352 overnight, after Saturday's gain of 617,428. Steal An Egg added 138,073 and Brookhaven 8,363. 2
Roblox's status page reports every system operational, with the newest incident still the site issue of 5 October. 25
The newsroom's newest item remains the Hollow announcement of 21 October. 26
The announcements board has added nothing since the weekly recap went up at 00:05 yesterday, so the platform side of this weekend has been quiet. 27
The TextChatService takedown thread stands at 521 posts, 12,051 views and 2,950 likes, with its newest reply at 01:06 today. 28
References
- 1Roblox — Top Playing Now chart
apis.roblox.com
- 2Roblox games API — live player counts
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- 4G1 — live coverage of the second round
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- 7Roblox badges API — The Hollow hub
badges.roblox.com
- 8Murder Mystery 2 on Roblox
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- 17Roblox Newsroom — The Hollow: new platform-wide survival event
about.roblox.com
- 18The Hollow on Roblox
roblox.com
- 19Biter Fedora in the Roblox catalogue
roblox.com
- 20Tower Defense Simulator on Roblox
roblox.com
- 21Adopt Me! on Roblox
roblox.com
- 22Dandy's World on Roblox
roblox.com
- 23Dress To Impress on Roblox
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- 24Animal Hospital on Roblox
roblox.com
- 25Roblox Status
status.roblox.com
- 26Roblox Newsroom
about.roblox.com
- 27Developer Forum — weekly recap, October 19–23
devforum.roblox.com
- 28Developer Forum — TextChatService moderation takedowns
devforum.roblox.com
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