Can you get featured on the Roblox home page, and how?
There are three routes onto the Roblox home page and only one is for sale. What the platform's documentation says about sorts, sponsored placement and hand curation.
There are three routes onto the Roblox home page, and only one of them can be bought. The rest is decided by the algorithm and by the platform’s own editors.
What sits on the home page
Per Roblox documentation, alongside the main recommendation feed there are:
Standout Games — a block the documentation describes as hand curated by Roblox, featuring experiences with unique and in-depth gameplay mechanics.
Sponsored — paid discovery targeting a chosen audience.
Search — running on semantic search across all officially supported languages.
Notifications — the channel the platform uses to bring players back into experiences.
Which of these is purchasable
Sponsored, and nothing else. It is an advertising product and works by advertising rules: auction, targeting, budget.
Hand curation cannot be bought. A place in recommendations cannot be bought, because it is computed from the behaviour of organic players.
How the main feed works
The algorithm selects experiences for a specific user and ranks them, optimising for long-term retention. The leading signals are the share who start playing after seeing the game, the share who leave in the first minutes, and how often a player returns.
A new experience is shown to small cohorts first and expanded based on the response.
What reduces your chances
The documentation names three causes directly: metadata emphasising monetary rewards, a mismatch between the description and the actual content, and close resemblance to existing games.
The first is worth rereading for anyone planning a branded activation with prizes. A description reading “come in and get a free UGC item” is exactly the metadata that gets distribution cut.
What actually moves the needle
The quality of the first session. Original thumbnail and title. Accurate keywords that match what is inside.
The honest answer for a brand
Nobody can guarantee a home-page placement. An agency promising it in a proposal is promising something it does not control.
The controllable part is the quality of the world and the purchase of Sponsored placement. Everything else the platform decides on its own, from how players behave.
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