Roblox Corporation has announced the creation of two new age-based accounts for Roblox, with these designed to prevent young users from encountering harmful content and accessing certain in-game features.
The announcement follows other recent significant changes, including the formation of an advisory Global Parent Council to address ongoing concerns about the content available on the platform.
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Roblox’s new age restrictions
The two new age-based account types launch in early June, and will be for users aged 5 to 8 and users aged 9 to 15.
Both types of accounts will be tied to age checks, with this feature currently required to access chat, and being generally mandatory in some regions, including Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands.
Accounts for users aged 5 to 8, checked through the platform’s age-check technology or by parent designation, will have access limited to games and experiences with ‘Minimal’ or ‘Mild’ content maturity labels that have passed a curated selection process. In addition, all communication will be disabled by default.
Accounts for users aged 9 to 15 will have access limited to games with content maturity labels up to ‘Moderate’ that have passed a curated selection process. The default communication settings will remain unchanged.
How will game experiences be curated?
The biggest differences announced are that both new types of accounts will feature tighter curation for game experiences, in an attempt to reduce the risk of children stumbling across harmful content. With a stricter curation system in place, experiences will need to pass certain checks before being available to children.
According to the Roblox Corporation announcement, the selection process includes AI asset scanning, user reporting reviews, ‘multimodal moderation that evaluates scenes in real time for potential policy violations’, developer verification, and real-time evaluation. Any experience that features ‘sensitive issues, social hangouts or free-form drawing games’ will not be offered for age-restricted accounts.
Additional measures to protect young players
In addition to the account-based restrictions, Roblox Corporation has also confirmed an array of other measures to better protect children using its platform.
Later in 2026, Roblox will transition to using the International Age Rating Coalition framework, which assigns content ratings for digital games, apps and other forms of entertainment. This will provide new information for parents, helping them make better informed decisions about what they allow their kids to access.
Roblox will also soon get extended parental controls, which will show data about which games children are accessing, how much time they’re spending in them and who their friends are. Parents will be able to block specific individual games until players turn 16. They will also be able to manage chat settings and approve access to specific games not otherwise available to age restricted accounts.
While the impact of these new features will only be understood with time, there’s hope they’ll help to address ongoing concerns around safety in Roblox, and the many diverse user-made experiences that exist on the platform.
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