Due to the presence of microtransactions in the game and the target demographic being young children, there have been instances of children spending large amounts of money on Adopt Me!, including one particular incident where a child from Australia spent $8,000 AUD (US$6,348.88) on the game. Around a third of Roblox players on the Xbox One play Adopt Me!. The highest number of concurrent players Adopt Me! has achieved is 1.92 million. To hatch the egg, players can complete various tasks eventually leading the egg hatching into a Zodiac Minion Chick.

The event allowed players to talk to Gru to adopt a Zodiac Minion Egg. On June 16, 2022, they partnered with Universal Pictures and Illumination to promote the CGI-animated film Minions: The Rise of Gru. The Buster Moon NPC, stage and pieces were later removed from the game after the event concluded. For the event, players could talk to Buster Moon next to a stage to complete a task of finding different pieces across the map in-exchange for a Galaxy Explorer pet accessory helmet. One year later on November 18, 2021, they partnered with Universal Pictures and Illumination to promote the CGI-animated film Sing 2. The pet, vehicle and collar were later removed from the game after the event concluded. As part of the event, Scooby-Doo (as a puppy) was brought into the game as a temporary pet where players could drive around in the Mystery Machine (also limited-time) and complete a task where they could help find his missing collar in-exchange for three detective-themed pet accessories. Pictures and Warner Animation Group to promote the CGI-animated film Scoob!. On May 4, 2020, Uplift Games (then called DreamCraft) partnered with Warner Bros. By March 2021, Adopt Me! had around 20 billion total visits. In July 2020, the game had been played upwards of ten billion times. This update caused the game to achieve 680,000 concurrent players, which received attention as it was three times as much as the Steam game with the most concurrent players at that time, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord. On April Fools in 2020, Adopt Me! received an update that included a pet rock, available for a limited time. Adopt Me! had been played slightly over three billion times by December 2019. Adopt Me! added the feature of adoptable pets in summer of 2019, which caused the game to rapidly increase in popularity. Originally, the game was a collaboration between two Roblox users who go by the usernames 'Bethink' and 'NewFissy'.

Prior to 2018, Adopt Me! had been solely about adopting children, in line with several previous Roblox games with the same concept. Players can also adopt children and roleplay with other users. Bucks can be earned by fulfilling the needs of a pet, such as eating and drinking, among other methods. Purchases within the game are facilitated both by Robux, and through Adopt Me! 's virtual currency, simply called 'Bucks'. If a player has four fully grown pets of the same type, they can combine them to form a 'Neon' pet, and four fully grown neon pets can be combined into a 'Mega-Neon' pet. Once hatched, pets grow from their starting status as newborns, growing up into juniors, pre-teens, teens, post-teens, and eventually becoming full-grown. Pets are grouped into five classes based on rarity and cost: common, uncommon, rare, ultra-rare, and legendary. Some pets can only be purchased with Roblox 's virtual currency, Robux. A Starter Egg, which is given to a player when they begin to play for the first time, for example hatches only a dog or a cat. Gameplay A player with their pet in their houseĪdopt Me! revolves around adopting and caring for a variety of different types of pets, which hatch from eggs. As of November 2022, Adopt Me! has reached 30.8 billion visits and still has one of the highest concurrent number of players, their record being with the 'Dress Your Pets' update, with over 1.6 million concurrent players. The game was averaging 160,000 concurrent players as of September 2022, making it one of the most popular and successful games on Roblox. Uplift Games, the independent studio behind the game, employs roughly 40 people and earns 60 million dollars a year, mostly from microtransactions. The original focus of the game was a role-play wherein players pretended to be either a parent adopting a child, or a child getting adopted, but as the game was developed, its focus shifted to adopting and caring for virtual pets, which can be traded with other players. Windows, macOS, Xbox One, iOS, Android, SĪdopt Me! (stylized in all caps) is a massively multiplayer online video game developed by Uplift Games (formerly known as DreamCraft) on the gaming and game development platform Roblox.

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