Your child, or the child in your care, wants Roblox or already plays it, and the Roblox age rating does not give you a clear yes or no. This guide is for parents and carers who want a straight answer and a short list of settings to change, without learning the whole platform first. We focus on the safety settings that matter most for kids.
Is Roblox safe for kids? The short answer
There is no single Roblox age rating. In the UK and Europe it carries a Parental Guidance label, and in the US it is rated Teen. Since June 2026, Roblox also sorts kids into age based accounts that decide which games and chat they get.
For many families it can work well from primary school age, but only with a linked parent account, a correct birthday on the account and regular conversations about who your child plays with.
What the Roblox age rating means
Roblox is not one game. It is part game, part social media: a platform where users build millions of Roblox games, which Roblox calls Roblox experiences. That is why the rating boards treat it differently from a single boxed game.
PEGI (UK and Europe). In 2022, PEGI replaced Roblox’s PEGI 7 rating with a Parental Guidance label, an exclamation mark icon, because so much of the content is made by players and changes all the time. PEGI uses this label for platforms where some content may not suit children. One practical point: on games consoles, this label is treated like PEGI 12, so Roblox will not open if your console limit is set to PEGI 7.
ESRB (US and Canada). The ESRB rates Roblox T for Teen, with a note that content varies and some of it may not suit all ages. It also flags that players talk to each other and that some games sell random items, a bit like a lucky dip.
Elsewhere. PlayStation’s parent guide lists Roblox as USK 16 in Germany and PG in Australia. So the Roblox age rating you see depends on where you live.
Content Maturity Ratings Inside Roblox
Each game on Roblox also carries its own content maturity rating. Roblox used to call each one a content maturity label, and you will still see both names. Here is what each level allows, in Roblox’s own words:
- Minimal: “occasional mild violence, light unrealistic blood, and/or occasional mild fear.”
- Mild: “repeated mild violence, heavy unrealistic blood, mild crude humor, and/or repeated mild fear.”
- Moderate: “moderate violence, light realistic blood, moderate crude humor, unplayable gambling content”, and moderate fear. Unplayable gambling content means things like slot machine imagery that cannot be played for real money.
- Content May Vary: the creator has not finished Roblox’s rating questions, so the game could hold anything up to Moderate. In most regions only age checked users 16 and over can play these.
- 16 and over: games built around sensitive social, political or religious issues, social hangouts and free form drawing or building.
- Restricted: stronger content, including romantic themes, alcohol, strong language and moderate crude humor. Only age checked adults 18 and over can play these.
Roblox has said it will start replacing its own ratings with familiar regional ones, such as PEGI and the ESRB, later in 2026. When we checked, Roblox’s help pages still used its own levels and did not mention PEGI or the ESRB.
If you see a PEGI or ESRB badge on a Roblox game, that change has reached your region, and the Roblox age rating for each game will be easier to read.
How Roblox Sorts Kids by Age
This is the biggest safety change in 2026, and many older guides miss it. Roblox now places every user in one of three types of Roblox accounts.
Roblox Kids accounts (ages 5 to 8). Your child can only play games rated Minimal or Mild that have passed extra review. All chat is off. With parental consent through a linked account, chat inside games can be turned on, and then your child can only chat with users aged 5 to 12 or with trusted friends.
Roblox Select accounts (ages 9 to 15). Games can go up to Moderate. Chat inside games is on by default, limited to similar ages. Children aged 9 to 12 can only use the separate Chat tab with trusted friends. Voice chat inside games is not available to them, though in some regions a parent can allow voice calls with trusted friends. For 13 to 15 year-olds on Select, voice chat inside games starts off, and a parent can turn it on.
Standard Roblox (16 and over). The full platform, apart from Restricted games for adults.
For younger users on Roblox Kids and Roblox Select, the game list leaves out social hangouts, free form drawing games and games about sensitive issues by default. A trusted friend is someone your child knows in real life, such as a cousin or a classmate. If your child is under 13, they cannot add a trusted friend without your approval.
Age Verification: How Roblox knows your child’s age
Two things decide which account your child gets. The first is age verification. Most kids use age estimation, a short selfie video that a company called Persona checks for Roblox. Roblox says the images are deleted after processing. An older child with a government ID can use ID checks instead. Without an age check, your child cannot chat at all and only sees a limited set of games. The second is you. A linked parent can correct a child’s age once after the check, if the estimate is wrong.
If the birthday on the account is wrong, every protection above is wrong too. That is why checking it comes first in the steps below.
How to Set Up Roblox Parental Controls
Parents manage everything from their own Roblox account, on their own phone or computer. The old parent PIN and the Account Restrictions setting no longer exist, so any guide telling you to switch them on is out of date.
1. Link your account to your child’s. On your child’s account, go to Settings, then Parental Controls, then Add parent, and enter your email. Follow the email to create or sign in to your own account. Roblox will ask you to verify that you are an adult with a government ID or a credit card.
2. Check your child’s age. In your account, go to Settings, then Parental Controls, and select your child. Make sure the age is right, and correct it if needed.
3. Choose what they can play. Under Settings you manage, open Content restrictions. You can lower the content maturity level for children under 13, block specific games, and approve a game your child asks for that sits outside their usual catalogue. Games on sensitive social, political or religious topics stay off for under 13s unless you allow them.
4. Decide on chat. Under Communication, you can turn Experience chat (the public chat inside a game) and Direct chat (one to one messages inside a game) on or off. You can also set who your child can message in the Chat tab, and whether voice chat is allowed. A gentle way to start is to keep chat to trusted friends only and widen it as your child shows you they can handle it.
5. Set time and money limits. Under Spending restrictions, set a monthly limit and choose spending notifications. A daily screen time limit is available for Roblox Kids accounts and for children aged 9 to 12. You can also limit private servers to friends only.
While you are in the safety settings, open Connections and look through your child’s friends list. You can block and report anyone from that screen.
Parents can manage every setting until a child turns 13. After that, you keep control of game blocking and Direct chat until your child turns 16, but daily screen time limits are no longer available inside Roblox. For older children, the device’s own controls can fill that gap. Our guides to parental controls on iPhone and console parental controls (coming soon) walk through those.
Robux and Spending
Roblox is free to download, but most of the extras cost Robux, the currency inside Roblox. Kids spend Robux on avatar clothes, power ups and access to some games. In practice, most children get Robux through money a parent spends, either in the app or with gift cards.
Three things are worth knowing:
- Gift cards sit outside the monthly limit. Roblox says its spending limit does not affect gift card redemption, so a birthday gift card can be spent in full.
- Offers of free Robux are scams. Any site, video or player promising free Robux is after your child’s password or your card details.
- Consoles add their own layer. On PlayStation, Roblox follows the console’s family settings for purchases and chat, so set limits in both places if your child plays there.
What the Safety Controls Cannot Do
It helps to know the limits before you rely on the settings.
- You cannot read your child’s chats. The parental controls show friends, playtime and spending, not messages. Roblox says it does not encrypt chat so it can monitor it, and that chat has never allowed photos or videos.
- Age estimates are not exact. Roblox says its age check is, on average, within about a year and a half for under 18s. Most children will land in the right group. Some will not.
- The risk often leaves Roblox. A stranger may try to move a child onto another app where none of these settings apply.
- Settings do not replace talking. Roblox has faced lawsuits and heavy criticism over child safety, and many of these changes came in response. The tools are better than they were. They still work best alongside you.
Talking to Your Child About who They Play with
Children hide problems when they fear losing the game. The aim is to make telling you feel safe. Short sentences help:
- “Show me your favourite game. Who do you play with?”
- “If anyone asks you to chat on another app, or asks for photos, come and get me.”
- “You will not lose Roblox for telling me something went wrong.”
Roblox itself suggests playing a game together, and it is one of the easiest ways to see what your child enjoys. For more on these conversations, read [how to talk to your child about parental controls](LINK: piece 08).
What it Costs in Time and Attention
Once both accounts exist, the five steps above fit into one sitting. The adult ID check is the part most likely to slow you down, so keep your ID or a card nearby. After that, a quick look at the friends list every few weeks is enough for most families. The Roblox age rating does not change as your child grows, but their account does. Check the settings again on each birthday, because Roblox moves children into a new account type automatically at 9 and at 16.
Who it Suits and Who it may Not suit
Roblox suits kids who mostly play with friends they know offline, in a household where an adult is happy to link an account and check in now and then. It can also suit children who love building. Roblox Studio, the free tool for making Roblox games, is a gentle first step into design and coding.
It may be worth waiting, or choosing a game without open chat, if your child finds it hard to tell when someone online is not who they say they are, or tends to keep worries to themselves. If you cannot verify your own age with an ID or a card, you cannot link a parent account, and most of the controls depend on that link. If you are still deciding on devices, our guide to setting up your child’s first phone (coming soon) covers the wider picture.
When to get help
If another player breaks Roblox’s Community Standards, report and block them in the game. If someone online talks to your child about sex, asks for photos or asks to meet, take screenshots and note their username before you block them. In the UK, report it to the CEOP Safety Centre, part of the National Crime Agency. If your child is in immediate danger, call 999 in the UK, or your local emergency number elsewhere. Outside the UK, your local police can advise. TechVise is not a safeguarding service, so please contact these services directly.
Checked on Oct 27, 2026, against Roblox’s own Safety Centre and Help Centre pages. Settings, ages and features vary by country and change often.