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A Roblox game about growing vegetables is seemingly now bigger than Fortnite
Everybody loves palpating their turnips; just look at the success of Stardew Valley and its ilk for proof of that. But …
According to third-party monitoring tools, Grow a Garden - the specifics of which we'll get to shortly - soared past 16m concurrent players this weekend on Roblox (16,411,769 to be exact. After that, you can sell your massive produce for profit, purchase more seeds or temporary boosts you'll need to slowly craft in real-time, then start the whole cycle over again. Frankly, absolutely nothing about it sounds like the sort of thing that might capture the imagination of 16m players all at once, but then I'm not a 13-year-old looking to do something mindless online with my friends after school.
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