Roblox requires age verification for games, launches new kids accounts

Roblox will soon require age verification before players can open games meant for users 9 and older, turning age into a hard gate across much of the platform. The San Mateo, California company said it will roll out two new account types in early June: Roblox Kids for ages 5 to 8 and Roblox Select for ages 9 to 15.

For families, the change means a child may no longer be able to move freely from one game to another without clearing a compliance check first. Roblox says the new system will tie access to an ongoing selection process for games available to users under 16, combining age checks, account-level defaults, content ratings, ongoing moderation and expanded parental controls into one framework. That could give parents more direct control, but it also puts more responsibility on households to decide how children are verified and what content they can reach.

Roblox says the fastest way to complete an age check is Facial Age Estimation, though users can also verify with a government-issued ID or through parental controls. The company says users can appeal or correct an age check through ID verification or parental controls, and parents have a one-time opportunity to correct a child’s age. Users 18 and older also have a one-time reset option in account settings. Roblox says the images and video used for facial age estimation are deleted immediately after processing.

The new account structure builds on a broader safety push that began with chat. Roblox started requiring age checks for chat in the United States on January 7, 2026, and said the requirement would expand globally where chat is available. In November 2025, Roblox said it was the first large online gaming platform to require facial age checks for users of all ages to access chat. The company says chat is off by default for users younger than 9, while users 13 to 15 get broader chat access, including with trusted friends and age-similar users.

Roblox has also expanded Trusted Friends so connected parents can automatically become a child’s Trusted Friend, another sign that the platform is pushing more family oversight into its design. The company said more than half of daily active users in Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands had completed the chat age-check process after it launched there in early December 2025. The new Kids and Select accounts will test whether Roblox’s safety overhaul is a meaningful shield for children, or a sharper barrier that shifts the work of compliance, and the risk of data collection, onto families.