With Halloween just around the corner, and since Roblox released on Oct. 10, horror games on the platform have grown in popularity. Two of the more popular games of this genre are Piggy and Doors, with both of them reaching player counts in the tens of thousands across different platforms, age groups, and regions.
Piggy is a survival-horror type game with numerous episodes to the story. The game is developed by the creator MiniToon and has full controller, touch, and keyboard support, making it playable on all devices compatible with Roblox. It follows the horror tale of trying to escape Piggy, which is a character inspired by Peppa Pig.
Doors is a level-based horror game about progressing through a building inhabited by numerous unknown creatures that want nothing other than the player to be dead. Like Piggy, it has full support for all platforms Roblox is on, and has added PlayStation support upon its release on the PlayStation 4 and 5. The game is developed by LSPLASH and RediblesQW, and it has garnered quite a large fanbase, especially among younger players.
Roblox making its way to PlayStation has gotten players excited, as a PlayStation port has been widely requested for years, with the requests really ramping up after it was released on Xbox in 2015. On a technical level, the PlayStation 4 is more powerful than the Xbox One as far as the CPU and the GPU, so it baffled people how Xbox got a port first. However, on a software level, the Xbox development platform uses the same system that is used for Windows development, that being the x86 assembly program, which makes translating a Windows software to Xbox is fairly simple. Developing software for the PlayStation 4 requires translating the program to the proprietary assembly code that Sony uses, making development more complicated.
With the launch of Roblox on PlayStation, developers now need to change some of their game’s code to support the button layout of the DualShock and DualSense controllers, as those use symbols instead of the Xbox’s “BAYX” button layout. But with the DualSense being such an advanced controller, developers may now have more options for making their games more immersive and innovative, opening the window for them to become more known in the developer industry.