Attention parents of Roblox kids: I regret to inform you they are making a Grow a Garden movie

A Roblox character stands in front of a spiky yellow plant in garden plots

(Image credit: The Garden Game, Roblox)

Grow a Garden is huge. As Ted pointed out earlier this year, it's a little hard to comprehend that a free to play idle gardening game for Roblox made in a couple days by a teenager is more popular than any game you've ever played in your entire life. But it's true. By reported concurrent player counts, Grow a Garden is bigger than PUBG ever was on Steam, by far. It's even bigger than Fortnite.

So, as Hollywood rushes to convert pretty much every game from Call of Duty to The Sims into beaucoup boxoffice bucks, I have some sad but not-unexpected news to deliver to the parents of all those Roblox-obsessed kiddies.

I installed Roblox and played Grow a Garden myself for the first time this morning and look, I get it. I could easily spend hours buying seeds and growing veggies and selling them—which is why I'm uninstalling Roblox the very same morning I installed it for the first time.

But it's a little hard to picture Grow a Garden as a film, at least until you remember that A Minecraft Movie proved you can get pretty far (like almost a billion dollars far) by writing a script where someone like Jack Black just holds up various in-game items kids recognize while yelling the name of each item at the top of his lungs. I'm not sure what Grow a Garden's equivalent to a chicken jockey is, but I'm sure Story Kitchen can figure it out.

Chris started playing PC games in the 1980s, started writing about them in the early 2000s, and (finally) started getting paid to write about them in the late 2000s. Following a few years as a regular freelancer, PC Gamer hired him in 2014, probably so he'd stop emailing them asking for more work. Chris has a love-hate relationship with survival games and an unhealthy fascination with the inner lives of NPCs. He's also a fan of offbeat simulation games, mods, and ignoring storylines in RPGs so he can make up his own.

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