Steal a Brainrotis the name of a newRobloxgame that has recently soared up the playing charts. As of July 2025, it has already attracted millions ofRobloxplayers.
Made byRobloxdeveloperBrazilian Spyder,Steal a Brainrotis 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.
Steal a Brainrothas 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 Brainrotgenerated 6.9 billion visits, instances of aRobloxplayerjoining a game.
Steal a Brainrot Is Already Attracting Cheaters
As tends to be the case with mostcompetitiveRobloxgames, especially those that explode in popularity,Steal a Brainrotis 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 creatingRobloxexperiences.
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The player count snapshot was taken at 8:30am ET on July 22, 2025.
Social Media Amplified Steal a Brainrot’s Popularity
The concept behindSteal a Brainrotlends 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. AsPolygonput it: “Steal a Brainrothas become the biggest game onRobloxby making kids miserable.”
How longSteal a Brainrotwill manage to maintain this momentum remains to be seen. As things stand right now,Grow a Farmis the onlyRobloxgame significantly ahead in popularity, rarely dropping below 2 million active players.
