Ink Game

Hook: Drop into a 100-player lobby and survive a gauntlet of deadly childhood games — Red Light/Green Light, the Dalgona cookie carve, the Glass Bridge, and more — until one player is left standing, or the group votes to call it early and split the pot.

Gameplay loop: Matches run roughly 8-12 minutes, funnelling the lobby through a rotating lineup of those elimination rounds and ending in a one-on-one fight if two players make it that far. There are no respawns and no second chances inside a match. Some players spawn as armed Guards rather than contestants, enforcing eliminations and earning bonus currency for kills instead of competing to survive.

Monetization: Of the seven gamepasses on sale, three are decoration or convenience: emote slots, a custom player tag, private-server commands. The other four matter more. Permanent Guard (799 Robux) buys repeat access to the armed Guard role and its kill bonus; free players can get there by grinding roughly 325 million in-game currency, a punishing road but a real one, so Robux buys a shortcut rather than exclusivity. Glass Manufacturer Vision (649 Robux, or a very large currency total) reveals every other safe tile on the bridge — risk removal rather than a gate, since free players can still cross by following whoever went first. VIP (649 Robux) adds a permanent 25% boost to luck, currency, and XP, and 2x Vote Count (249 Robux) doubles your say in the one-time "keep playing or split the pot" vote; neither has a free equivalent. Mixed, then: the two items bearing most directly on survival have a free route, and the passive boosts don't.

Replay value: Under active development — its own description currently flags a recent "Anniversary Update + Admin Abuse Rework" — with three endings to chase and a wide, still-growing round list. At 3.2B+ visits and 21.7M+ favorites, it has real staying power in the genre.

Verdict: A slick, hugely popular Squid Game riff with a genuinely varied round list and an active dev team, but its Guard role and vote-weight pass sell a real edge, and the entire loop is built around watching other players get shot, dropped, or guillotined — a darker presentational core than its blocky Roblox art style might suggest.