The murderer and sheriff are the only armed characters, but, at the beginning of each round, both classes start with their weapons holstered and just as anonymous as the innocents. They, therefore, choose when to make their move, and a thrilling level of strategy ensues as you desperately study and suspect each member of the group to see who’s looking the shiftiest. As you’d expect, it’s up to the sheriff to protect the innocents from their unknown assailant, and they’ll get bonus points for each innocent they save. Chances are you’ll be one of this unfortunate number; the only class without any weaponry, innocents are forced to flee. It’s simple but well-balanced. The murderer has a knife rather than a gun to prevent them from being overpowered when a scrap breaks out, which creates seriously frenetic fun. As rounds will only take a couple of minutes at most, the just-one-more-go appeal of Murder Mystery 2 can be quite the time sink.

Jailbreak is as close as a good ROBLOX marketplace are going to get to the world of GTA 5 RP. You start by picking one of two roles: Police Officer or Criminal. If you pick the latter, you’ll be living out your Michael Schofield dream as you make your escape from Her Majesty’s Pleasure. Or you could spend the remainder of your days in the cafeteria and jumping on the trampolines in the yard, which is also fun. Fortunately, you won’t have to assemble a crack squad of goons to help you break out using the elaborate tattoo on your body, the process is a lot easier than that.

To escape, you’ll need a keycard which, predictably, your cop captors would rather you didn’t have. Anyone familiar with Fallout and The Skyrim will be familiar with how the pickpocketing mechanic works in this Roblox game. Meanwhile, as a policeman, you’ll be armed with a pistol, taser, and a set of cuffs to foil the attempts of your restive prisoners.

However, if they do escape, the game explodes in scale to become open-world. At which point a massive game of hide-and-seek ensues for the most persistent of police pursuers. Despite Jailbreak still only being in beta, this is a very strong Roblox game, with plenty more updates in the pipeline.

Rarely do we play survival games in which the pre-game lobby is about as much fun as the actual game. But we’ll get onto that in a moment. Like Natural Disaster Survival, you’ll need to evade various physics-based threats spilling from the heavens if you fancy remaining in one piece in Super Bomb Survival! Airborne threats come in many guises; from dynamite that explodes on a timer to spreading fires. Bombsites then reveal the verticality and destructibility of each environment – explosions leave permanent structural damage that constantly shifts throughout each two-and-a-half-minute round. The real thrill of this Roblox game emerges as you scramble to find a new escape route after having just evaded another hazard through the skin of your teeth.

As previously mentioned, falling prey to a bomb isn’t the end of the world (so to speak) either. Instead, you’re teleported to the spectator area surrounding the chaos to watch the remaining survivors in their desperate efforts. And if that’s not exciting enough, the spectator area is the lobby equivalent of Play Zone: there are piano keys to jump on, cannons to fire yourself from, and even a football to kick around.

Speed Run 4 is a classic quick-fire platformer game that’s perfect to play in short, lunchtime bursts. Once you cross the start line, you’re automatically placed in sprint mode and your goal is to, unsurprisingly, race through each of the 31 levels as quickly as possible. It’s simple, yes, but the level design is as eclectic as the soundtrack.

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