Roblox's 'Grow A Garden' explodes online video game numbers

More than 21 million players connected to Grow A Garden at the same time on June 21, buying seeds to cultivate a little patch of virtual land, harvesting crops, selling their produce and nicking stuff from other players' plots. — Roblox

PARIS: A gardening game created by a teenager on online platform Roblox has attracted a record 21 million simultaneous players, a figure rarely seen in the industry.

"You could quite easily never have heard of Grow A Garden... and yet it is by some measures the biggest video game at the moment," Dom Tait, an analyst with UK firm Omdia, told AFP.