Steal a Brainrot is the name of a new Roblox game that has recently soared up the playing charts. As of July 2025, it has already attracted millions of Roblox players.
Made by Roblox developer Brazilian Spyder, Steal a Brainrot is a tycoon-like game that tasks players with stealing strange meme-like creatures—the titular Brainrots—from one another. Getting started requires either swiping or purchasing one such beast, which kicks off a cycle of theft, loss, and revenge. As an incentive for collecting, Brainrots generate income over time, which can be utilized to purchase even more of them and grow one's meme empire. But they are always susceptible to getting stolen, which creates constant tension.
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Posts 1Steal a Brainrot has soared up the playing charts since its May 16 release, amassing millions of players. As of the early morning hours (ET) on July 26, it boasts over 10 million favorites and has nearly a million people actively playing. Over its first ten weeks on the market, Steal a Brainrot generated 6.9 billion visits, instances of a Roblox player joining a game.
Steal a Brainrot Is Already Attracting Cheaters
CloseAs tends to be the case with most competitive Roblox games, especially those that explode in popularity, Steal a Brainrot is already attracting cheaters. The tycoon-like nature of its core gameplay loop makes it susceptible to cheating via scripts that automate things like cash collection, target locking, and stealing, in addition to preventing the game's AFK safeguards from triggering by continuously simulating some kind of player activity. Game Rant has identified around 200 such public scripts hosted on GitHub alone. They stem from approximately a dozen scripts that users forked and modified for their own purposes. Many are written in Luau, a custom version of the Lua programming language used for creating Roblox experiences.
Top 5 Most-Played Roblox Games Right Now
No.
Game
Active Players
Favorites
Total Visits
1.
Grow a Garden
3,600,000
6,244,087
20,000,000,000
2.
99 Nights in the Forest
1,000,000
881,796
1,200,000,000
3.
Steal a Brainrot
861,400
10,027,040
6,900,000,000
4.
Brookhaven RP
688,900
24,404,076
68,800,000,000
5.
Blox Fruits
235,700
16,426,546
52,800,000,000
The player count snapshot was taken at 8:30am ET on July 26, 2025.
Social Media Amplified Steal a Brainrot's Popularity
The concept behind Steal a Brainrot lends itself to emotionally charged moments of both committing and enduring theft. This dynamic has fueled a wave of viral videos, helping the game gain momentum through widespread exposure on social media and snowball from there. Stealing and general strategy tips are also in high demand, with some of the most popular such videos having tens of millions of views on YouTube and TikTok. As Polygon put it: "Steal a Brainrot has become the biggest game on Roblox by making kids miserable."
How long Steal a Brainrot will manage to maintain this momentum remains to be seen. As things stand right now, Grow a Farm is the only Roblox game significantly ahead in popularity, rarely dropping below 2 million active players.
