In This World — the Roblox "game" that isn't one
If you searched for an In This World Roblox game, you almost certainly saw the viral story animations. Here's what the trend actually is and where to watch it.
There is no official "In This World" game on Roblox. The name belongs to a story format: short Roblox-animated videos where each world or town runs on one bizarre rule, and one unlucky kid has to survive it.
What the format is
One rule per story — that's the whole hook.
Every episode opens with the same setup: in this world (or in this town), something ordinary is secretly dangerous or works differently. Everyone gets one lie per day that comes true for exactly one minute. Laughing costs battery percentage. Whatever Mom says literally happens. The rest of the two-to-three-minute short follows a kid who is spectacularly bad at living under that rule — until a twist lands at the end. Compilations stitch the shorts together, which is how a quick watch turns into forty minutes.
Standout episodes people search for
The most-shared entries in the format.
| Story | The rule |
|---|---|
| Everyone Wakes Up at 100%, I Wake Up at 1% | Everyone has a battery percentage overhead — laughing drains it, and the narrator has been stuck at 1% for life. |
| Mr. Click Takes Your Smile | A camera-headed figure takes school photos every October; whoever smiles biggest disappears into the frame. |
| One Lie a Day | Everyone can tell one lie per day that becomes true for one minute — a rule that saves a school bus on a collapsing bridge. |
| Moms' Words Come True | Whatever a mother says literally happens — "you're driving me up the wall" included, with predictably disastrous Saturdays. |
| Crying Turns You Into Your Pet | Exactly what it says — tears trigger the transformation, and the town's kids learn to hold them in. |
Where to watch
The format lives on video platforms, not in Roblox itself.
- 1YouTube
Search
in this world roblox story animationorin this town roblox— multi-story compilations are the easiest way to binge the format. - 2TikTok
Accounts like
@in_this_town_rulespost new entries under#inthistownand#robloxstory— this is where most of the format spreads first. - 3Compilations elsewhere
Re-uploaded compilations also circulate on Dailymotion and other video sites.
Want something playable instead?
The stories are watch-only — but the idea escaped into games.
The animations themselves can't be played. If the "weird rule" premise is what grabbed you, search in this town inside Roblox's own discovery — fan-made games inspired by the trend do exist, though none are official or connected to the animators. For polished single-player storytelling on Roblox, story-driven titles and obby-style narrative games are the closest official-adjacent experience.