How to make a Roblox puzzle game
A puzzle or escape room game is one of the cheapest good ideas on Roblox: a few rooms, clues that make sense afterwards, and the feeling of working it out. It takes more thinking than building, and friends will play it together.
What it needs
Players look around a room, find clues, solve locks and puzzles, and race the clock to get out, alone or together.
- Clues that make sense. When someone solves it, they should think "of course".
- Locks and doors. Keys, codes and switches that open the next part.
- Hints. A way to get unstuck, so people don't leave.
- A clock. A timer turns a room into a challenge, and a time to beat.
1Start on a map
Mansions, temples and libraries full of detail. Every room is part of the puzzle. A finished map means your first weeks go into the game itself. Open it in Roblox Studio with File, then Open from File. Here's how, and there are free maps too.
Maps for a puzzle game
Ready to open in Roblox Studio.
2Add the scripts
These are free to copy and paste, each with where it goes:
- Roblox door scriptThe door that finally opens.
- Roblox tool giver scriptA key or a clue players carry.
- Roblox teleport scriptFrom one room to the next.
- Roblox leaderboard scriptThe rooms each player has finished.
For what's particular to your game, ask the script generator. Press one of these to start from it:
3Make it feel right
- Test on someone who hasn't seen it, and don't help. Where they get stuck is what needs fixing.
- Build puzzles that need two people: they're what makes friends invite friends.
- Put each clue where someone would look anyway, not behind a pixel they'd have to hunt for.
What goes wrong most often
- Puzzles only you can solve. If nobody gets it without help, it's not clever, just hidden.
- No hints. A stuck player doesn't stay stuck, they leave.
4Test it and publish
- Press F5 to try it alone. To run several players at once, pick Server & Clients in the test menu and press Play. Then invite up to 10 friends to preview it, without any help from you.
- Got a model or a script from somewhere else? Run it through the free backdoor scanner first. Hidden code can take over your game.
- Choose File, then Publish. You'll need an icon and a thumbnail. It stays private until you release it, and releasing it takes an age check: here's how publishing works now.
5Earn from it
You keep 70% of the Robux players spend in your game. Start with one game pass or developer product. The tax calculator works out what to charge, and the DevEx calculator what it's worth in dollars.
Questions
How long should a puzzle game be?
Three or four rooms at around five minutes each is a good start. Then add more for those who finish, and see how many do.
How do I stop answers being shared?
You can't, really, but you can choose a clue's answer at random each round, so a code from a video won't work.
How do puzzle games make money?
Hints as a developer product, extra rooms as a pass, and cosmetics. You keep 70% of the Robux spent in your game.
Other kinds of game
Maps
Fantasy & medieval maps
Mansions, temples and libraries full of detail. Every room is part of the puzzle.
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Roblox script generator
Say what you need in plain words and get a working script, checked for backdoors.
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