Adopt Me! (2017) is one of the most popular Roblox games. In a rudimentary way, it simulates daily life. You can build a home, look after pets and make friends. Like many Roblox games, it's the combination of an avid community of players and freeform play that makes it popular. As with playground games, it evolves over time as developers add features suggested by the players. It's one of the most popular Roblox games getting over 1 billion visits a year (in 2022).

The main focus is on adopting, raising and collecting the 65 pets. You can also decorate your house and unlock vehicles. Much of this you can do without making additional purchases, but as you progress there is a drive to sell items that enable you to access rarer pets.

There are five ranks: common, uncommon, rare, ultra-rare, and legendary. The most valuable legendary pets include Dragons, King/Queen Bee, Owl, Crow, Reindeer, Turtle, Kangaroo, Unicorn, Griffin, Ninja Monkey and Kitsune. You train your pets by completing tasks. Once you have four fully grown they can be traded for even rarer Neon pets with glowing parts. You can then do this four times to trade them in for a Mega Neon Pet that glows rainbow.

To create a Mega Neon Diamond Griffin would require three Diamond Eggs from a minimum of 1170 consecutive days of playing. That is assuming you hatched the same creature from your Diamond egg each time (1 in 3 chance), so the actual number of days would be much higher.

This ecosystem of pets both encourages extended play time as well as purchasing of currency. Players can also trade these pets with each other, that can lead to disputes if trades are not fair. Children can worry about being scammed because of the level of investment (time and money) they make in their pets.

Our examiner, Chris Boers, first checked Adopt Me! (Roblox) 3 years ago. It was re-examined by Andy Robertson and updated 4 weeks ago.