Roblox is rolling out two new age-based accounts for younger users in early June, splitting children into Roblox Kids for ages 5 to 8 and Roblox Select for ages 9 to 15. The company says the change will more closely align content access, communication settings and parental controls with a user’s age.
The new system gives Roblox a sharper way to sort roblox kids and teens without changing the experience for users 16 and older. Age-checked users under 16 will still have access to the vast majority of their favorite games at launch, while users 16 and older will not see any change to their Roblox experience.
Roblox Kids accounts will be assigned automatically to users ages 5 to 8, either through global age-check technology or by a verified parent. Those accounts will be matched to a dynamically updated catalog of thousands of select games and limited to titles carrying Minimal or Mild content maturity labels. All communication will be turned off by default, and the app will show a distinct background color to signal the account type.
Roblox Select accounts will cover users ages 9 to 15, determined through the universal age-check system or by a verified parent. Those accounts will also be matched to a dynamically updated catalog containing thousands of select games, but they will be allowed content rated up to and including Moderate. Default communication settings for that group will remain unchanged, and the app will use a distinct visual treatment to identify the account type.
The company is tying the rollout to automatic age transitions that will move users from Roblox Kids to Roblox Select at age 9, and from Roblox Select to standard Roblox accounts at age 16. Users who have not yet completed an age-check will be limited to Minimal or Mild games and will have all communication unavailable until they finish the process.
Roblox says the update folds age-checks, account-level defaults, content ratings, ongoing moderation and expanded parental controls into one framework for younger users. It also adds a continuous selection process for content available to users under 16, including developer verification, extended content evaluation and rating, and extra limits on material better suited to older audiences.
That approach leans on the company’s existing moderation systems, including AI asset scanning, ongoing review of user reports and multimodal moderation that evaluates scenes in real time for policy violations. The friction point is the same one that has hovered over the platform for years: Roblox is promising tighter control over what younger users see while also saying most of their favorite games will still be there when the accounts go live.
For families, the real test begins when the new accounts start appearing in early June. The company is betting that a cleaner age split will make Roblox easier to manage without making it feel smaller, and that balance will determine whether roblox kids and their parents see the change as a safeguard or a gate.
