PlayAdoptMe is an American YouTube channel based around playing the Roblox game Adopt Me!. The channel is run by the Roblox game group Uplift Games, formerly known as DreamCraft and TeamAdoptMe.
About
The YouTube channel make videos about designing players' home, pets, memes, news and more. Adopt Me was created in 2017, but the YouTube channel was created in early 2020, three years after the original foundation.
The game features two roles: baby and parent, which cares for the baby. Other features include obbies, pets, a trading system, and customizable houses. The game was featured in the 7th Annual Bloxy Awards and Egg Hunt 2020: Agents of E.G.G. events.
The game was created by NewFissy, who took charge of scripting and leading the development team, and Bethink, who took charge of building and being the creative vision for the game.
The game can be considered a spiritual successor to various "Adopt and Raise" games that have appeared on the site, such as Adopt and Raise a Baby! by KingAndrewK.
Since its inception, the game has been considered to be the most popular game on Roblox due to how long it has stayed at the top spot on the front page, reaching over 450,000 concurrent players every day. It is also one of the most played games on Roblox, amassing over twenty billion place visits. On April 4, 2020, Adopt Me! became the most visited game on Roblox surpassing MeepCity.
On April 11, 2020, the game amassed 1,615,085 concurrent Roblox players, making it the first and only game as of now to cross the one million concurrent players mark.
On May 30, 2020, the game reached 7.8 billion visits, making it the only game so far to surpass the estimated human population.
On July 18, 2020, the game reached 10 billion visits.
On October 10, 2020, Adopt Me! reached 1,786,076 concurrent players, breaking their previous record.
Game milestones
- On May 4, 2019, the game reached one billion place visits, making it the seventh game to surpass the milestone.
- It broke two previous records with over 440,000 concurrent players on June 15, 2019, with over 517,000 concurrent players on October 18, 2019, and with over 640,000 concurrent players on December 14, 2019.
- Additionally, it broke the record three times in one week, which had over 707,000 concurrent players at its peak on April 7, 2020.
- On April 11, 2020, the game became the first to reach over one million concurrent players. At its peak, it reached over 1.6 million concurrent players. This caused Roblox's servers and website to slow down, and many users experienced severe lag and found it difficult to play any games.
- On May 28, 2020, the game reached the 1 million concurrent player mark again.
- On July 10, 2020, the game reached one million concurrent players for the third time.
- On October 2, 2020, the game reached one million concurrent players for the fourth time.
- On October 10, 2020. the game reached over one million concurrent players for the fifth time, at it's peak it reached over 1.7M concurrent players.
- On October 11, 2020, at around 10:50 AM MST, the game yet again caused Roblox to have issues like they did on April 11 and October 10.
- On April 11, 2020, the game became the first to reach over one million concurrent players. At its peak, it reached over 1.6 million concurrent players. This caused Roblox's servers and website to slow down, and many users experienced severe lag and found it difficult to play any games.
- Additionally, it broke the record three times in one week, which had over 707,000 concurrent players at its peak on April 7, 2020.
Trivia
- NewFissy stated that the game was created due to the death of one of the senior developers of TreeLands, the game he worked on, but quit to make Adopt Me!.[1]
- A potential reason why it became so popular is because it combines the simulator genre (with pets) and the building genre (which Welcome to Bloxburg uses with some forms of roleplay, but it did not get as popular due to the game being paid access) into a role-playing experience.
- On June 14, 2019, pets were added to the game.
- The game has a like-to-dislike ratio of 3M–703K, giving it an 84% rating.
- The game has been favorited over 15M times.
- Each game server holds 48 players.