Adopt Me!

Adopt, raise, and trade virtual pets in a family-friendly Roblox world.

Adopt Me! (stylized in all caps) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Uplift Games (formerly known as DreamCraft) on the online game platform Roblox. It was released on July 13, 2017 for Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S, and PlayStation 5. The original focus of the game was a family role-play, wherein players either acted as a parent adopting a child, or a child getting adopted. As the game developed, its focus shifted to adopting and caring for virtual pets, which could also be traded with other players. Uplift Games employs roughly 40 people and earns US$60 million from the game a year, often from microtransactions. Adopt Me! had averaged over 100,000 concurrent players in September 2022. As of November 2025, Adopt Me! had surpassed over 40.8 billion visits.

Quick Facts

Developer

Uplift Games

Engine

Roblox Studio

Platforms

Windows
macOS
Xbox One
iOS
iPadOS
Android
Xbox Series X
Xbox Series S
PlayStation 4
PlayStation 5

Released

13 July 2017

Genre

MMORPG, pet-raising simulation

Director

Bethink

Programmer

NewFissy

Modes

Multiplayer

Lore & Background

Adopt Me! began as a family role-play game where players acted as parents adopting children or children getting adopted. In summer 2019, the game added adoptable pets, which caused it to rapidly increase in popularity. Pets hatch from eggs, with Starter eggs given to new players hatching only a dog or a cat. Pets grow through stages: newborn, junior, pre-teen, teen, post-teen, and full-grown. Four fully grown pets of the same type can be combined into a 'Neon' pet, and four fully grown neon pets can be combined into a 'Mega-Neon' pet. Players can trade pets with other players. Purchases are facilitated by Robux and the in-game currency 'Bucks', which can be earned by fulfilling a pet's needs like eating and drinking. Players can also adopt children and roleplay with other users.

Reader's Guide

Adopt Me! is a pet-raising simulation. Players hatch pets from eggs, which are grouped into five rarity classes: common, uncommon, rare, ultra-rare, and legendary. Some pets can only be purchased with Robux. Once hatched, pets grow from newborn through junior, pre-teen, teen, post-teen, to full-grown. Players can trade pets with others. The in-game currency 'Bucks' can be earned by fulfilling a pet's needs, such as eating and drinking. Players can also adopt children and roleplay. The game has had promotional events: in May 2020, Uplift Games partnered with Warner Bros. Pictures and Warner Animation Group to promote Scoob!, adding Scooby-Doo as a temporary pet and the Mystery Machine as a limited-time vehicle. On November 18, 2021, they partnered with Universal Pictures and Illumination to promote Sing 2, adding a task with Buster Moon. On June 16, 2022, they partnered again to promote Minions: The Rise of Gru, allowing players to adopt a Zodiac Minion Egg that hatched into a Zodiac Minion Chick. The game averaged 160,000 concurrent players as of September 2022, with a peak of 1.92 million concurrent players. Around a third of Roblox players on Xbox One play Adopt Me!. The number of players usually triples whenever a major update occurs. The game has been criticized for scams, with common methods including 'trust trades'. In November 2020, features were added to combat scams, including trade licenses required to trade pets above rare rarity, viewable trade history, and notifications for markedly unfair trades.

Did You Know?

Adopt Me! was originally a collaboration between two Roblox users with the usernames 'Bethink' and 'NewFissy'.
During the 2020 April Fools event, a pet rock update helped the game achieve 680,000 active players — three times as many as Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord had on Steam at the time.
One incident involved a child from Australia spending $8,000 AUD (US$6,348.88) on the game.