Roblox is moving to give game creators greater freedom to distribute their experiences beyond the company’s traditional platform, allowing them to turn games into standalone applications for mobile devices, PCs and gaming consoles.
The announcement was made at the company’s developers conference on Friday as Roblox seeks to make its vast catalogue of user-created games accessible without requiring players to rely exclusively on the Roblox app.
Under the new system, Roblox will provide the underlying technology and services needed for creators to distribute their games as standalone apps. The move could give developers more control over how players discover and access their creations while potentially expanding the audience for Roblox-based games.
The company is also preparing to make browser-based access easier. By the end of the year, players are expected to be able to join games directly through Chrome from a game's Experience Details page without first downloading an application. Roblox said support for additional browsers would follow.
The changes form part of a broader effort by the gaming platform to reduce barriers between players and the games created on its service.
Offline Play Comes to Roblox Games
Roblox also plans to allow creators to combine online and offline experiences within the same game.
The feature could enable developers to build traditional single-player campaigns and allow players to continue playing certain games without an active internet connection.
The expansion represents a notable shift for a platform that has historically been closely associated with online multiplayer experiences and persistent digital worlds.
By supporting offline modes, Roblox could make its games more comparable with conventional standalone titles while retaining the social and online features that have helped drive the platform's popularity.
Roblox Expands AI Tools for Game Development
Alongside the distribution changes, Roblox announced an expansion of its artificial intelligence tools designed to help creators build games more quickly.
The company highlighted several AI-powered features, including Build, Scene Generator and new tools involving non-player characters, commonly known as NPCs.
Roblox introduced Build in July, allowing users to create, test and publish a playable game using a text prompt directly within the Roblox app.
The company said approximately 9,000 games have already been published using Build. It also reported that 71% of users who created a game with the tool had not previously used Roblox Studio, its traditional development environment.
The figures suggest that AI tools could be lowering the technical barrier for people who want to develop games but lack conventional programming or game-design experience.
Scene Generator to Turn Prompts Into Game Layouts
Roblox is also preparing to launch Scene Generator later this year.
The tool will allow creators to use a text prompt alongside a reference image to generate a functional game layout, potentially speeding up the early stages of game development.
The company is further developing AI-powered non-player characters that can playtest games.
Such characters could help developers identify problems, test gameplay mechanics and assess how their creations perform before releasing them to human players.
Together, the new tools point to Roblox's growing investment in AI as a way of making game creation accessible to a wider pool of users.
The combination of broader distribution, offline functionality, browser access and AI-assisted development marks an ambitious expansion of the Roblox ecosystem.
Rather than limiting creators to games that live primarily inside the Roblox application, the company is positioning its technology as a broader infrastructure for building and distributing interactive experiences across multiple platforms.