(Image credit: Grandma's Favourite Games) When I was a kid I might get a videogame for Christmas and another for my birthday, but in between it was free games that filled my time. First shareware, then Flash games. If you were a kid after 2006 though, the free games that defined your childhood probably involved Roblox. In 2025, players spent more than 10 billion hours playing Roblox every month , more hours than they spent on Steam, PlayStation, and Fortnite put together. One of the big Roblox hits of 2025 was 99 Nights in the Forest, a survival-crafting game that peaked at 14.2 million concurrent players. Which is 2.7 times the population of New Zealand, where its creators Grandma's Favourite Games are based. Article continues below (Image credit: Grandma's Favourite Games) He also got involved in war clans, one of the early trends in Roblox—groups that would design maps and bases then raid each other in organized battles. "You would roleplay as soldiers," as Kieft puts it.…