Software

Roblox Player

by Roblox Corporation · Proprietary (Roblox Terms of Use)

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Getting the right Roblox Player download

The Roblox Player is the client that runs experiences, as opposed to Studio, which builds them. Most people never download it deliberately: the website installs it when you press play. The URL below is the one Roblox’s own manifest declares for the current version.

The Windows installer is a 4.6 MB bootstrapper. That is far too small to be the client, so it downloads the rest on first run, which is why the file size you see does not match what ends up on disk.

Unlike Studio, the Player gets a brand new URL for every single version, with an opaque token in the path. Version 0.726 lives at a different address from 0.702.2, and neither address is guessable.

There is also a Microsoft Store build. It is a separate package from this one, it updates through the Store instead, and the two are not interchangeable.

A "direct link" to the Player is a frozen build

Because each version gets its own address, any link someone hands you points at one specific build forever, not at the current one. Roblox refuses to connect with an out-of-date client, so an old direct link mostly buys you an installer that updates itself immediately, and at worst it is a stale file nobody is patching. We keep the per-version URLs and hashes precisely so you can tell which one you are looking at.

This is the download children are most often tricked over

Roblox is played overwhelmingly by minors, which makes it a standing favourite for fake installers, "free Robux" downloads and account-stealing pages. We are not making an accusation about any particular site here, only a structural point: the real client comes from Roblox’s own domain, costs nothing, and never needs a key, a generator or a survey. Anything that adds one of those has added something Roblox did not.

Record

Latest version
0.726
Release date
16 Jun 2026
Package identifier
Roblox.Roblox

Official downloads

These URLs are the ones Roblox Corporation declares in its own manifest. We do not proxy or shorten them, and we do not host a copy.

Verify the file you downloaded

Run this against the file on disk. If the output does not match the hash below, the file is not what Roblox Corporation published. Delete it.

Windows · PowerShell

Get-FileHash "version-8884371d30284041-RobloxPlayerInstaller.exe" -Algorithm SHA256

macOS · Linux

shasum -a 256 "version-8884371d30284041-RobloxPlayerInstaller.exe"

Expected output

22858fa38591e6f06b10adff0a994b624c8c45b1ff8cc9f349adcdaaf2cbef7b

Got a different hash, or one you cannot place? Paste it into the hash checker and it will tell you which program and version it belongs to, past releases included.

Install Roblox Player silently

The unattended switch below is the one Roblox Corporation declares in the installer manifest, not one we guessed by trying flags.

32-bit · publisher-declared

.\version-8884371d30284041-RobloxPlayerInstaller.exe -install -silent

Run it from the folder holding the downloaded file, in a terminal opened as administrator when the package installs for all users. Silent means no window and no prompts, so check the exit code rather than waiting for something to appear: 0 is success and 3010 means it worked but wants a reboot.

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Download Roblox Player for Mac

The macOS build as Homebrew declares it, with the same treatment as the Windows side: the publisher's own URL and a hash to check it against.

Version on Homebrew
0.734.0.7340915,89863375b5194afb
File name
version-89863375b5194afb-RobloxPlayer.zip
SHA-256
01435a9021bb6885f66106dbae49635efda4463d9c4b2de2229526a890fe8ab8
Install with Homebrew
brew install --cask roblox

How we scored this 100 out of 100

SignalFindingPoints
SHA-256 hash published1 of 1 installers ship a SHA-256 hashWithout a published hash there is no way to prove the file you downloaded is the file the publisher built.30 / 30
Binary provenance1 on a domain owned by the publisherThe strongest signal against a repackaged installer: the file should come from the publisher, not from a mirror nobody vouches for.35 / 35
Served over HTTPS1 of 1 over HTTPSAn installer fetched over plain HTTP can be modified in transit.15 / 15
Release recencylast release about 2 months agoSoftware that has not shipped in years accumulates unpatched vulnerabilities.15 / 15
Licence declaredProprietary (Roblox Terms of Use)A declared licence tells you what you are actually allowed to do with the software.5 / 5

Is Roblox Player safe to download?

Yes, in the sense we can actually verify: the installer downloads from rbxcdn.com, which is a domain we have tied to Roblox Corporation.

The installer on this page comes with the SHA-256 Roblox Corporation declared, so you do not have to take our word for it: hash the file you downloaded and compare.

What this does not tell you is whether the software itself is any good, or whether you want what it does once installed. A publisher can ship something you would rather not run and the download is still authentic. We answer the question we can measure and leave the other one to you.

How the 100/100 score is calculated · why the source matters more than the reputation

Old versions of Roblox Player9 with hashes

The version history of Roblox Player, each release with the download URL the publisher declared at the time and the SHA-256 to check it against. Useful when an update breaks something and you need to downgrade to a build that worked.

We do not host any of these files and never re-upload them, which is the difference between this and an old-version download site.

0.702.2.7020633

  • version-5b077c09380f4fe6-RobloxPlayerInstaller.exe64-bitofficial URL

    7C989333737AD30747BAD7E591F7E7AD7903797026856516B38BC35213DEB899

0.700.1.7000940

  • version-e380c8edc8f6477c-RobloxPlayerInstaller.exe64-bitofficial URL

    2160EB8B097501128589FBAABC4E21634AC798216A47EBD2CA70361766CF4BBB

0.700.0.7000935

  • version-fdda949d95e447e3-RobloxPlayerInstaller.exe64-bitofficial URL

    279882FB187221D68AF4F4019BD7B1AEED263E68F3D458FDCE0503FE5370DC5B

0.699.1.6990880

  • version-8e6e698468a04d3f-RobloxPlayerInstaller.exe64-bitofficial URL

    84AB782D25F3ACE54854FE40EC451F67B097B9B2EB20EF8925DEBF24F2BE4714

0.699.0.6990877

  • version-b7e223555d904550-RobloxPlayerInstaller.exe64-bitofficial URL

    FFB561D0116CEE4FB7FDFFE10945AA3F4177597760B5767759A11A7FFBDB5EA7

0.698.0.6980936

  • version-f6dd34ecac7b4642-RobloxPlayerInstaller.exe64-bitofficial URL

    D4F7D2FA78CC537EE14DA8680E044B2A5B4DE8F4CD26CE44446F1DFC84B24A54

0.697.0.6970925

  • version-889d2588b25a43d1-RobloxPlayerInstaller.exe64-bitofficial URL

    DFEE812B26192BA5DE8BC0F445DECC6DB9AE5D9C01898D894FB33D3BE12EDEFF

0.696.0.6960797

  • version-4aeb17bd13994560-RobloxPlayerInstaller.exe64-bitofficial URL

    9E3FA23BB483D8FE598363275704AB4F763C1F86CAA0B4C9D6F2B7ED7293AFF3

0.695.0.6950957

  • version-7a4a5d7d1fb3449f-RobloxPlayerInstaller.exe64-bitofficial URL

    B5F650916FDC6A6E443A16DCC20B2167BA02359CBB1B5D921C0B3B0195C148DE

Publishers take old builds offline without warning, so a link here can stop working even though the hash stays correct forever. If you already have the file, the hash is what matters: it tells you whether what you have is what they published.

Every version on record10

Every Roblox Player version with a published manifest, newest first. The most recent ones are listed above with their file names and hashes.

  • 0.726
  • 0.702.2.7020633
  • 0.700.1.7000940
  • 0.700.0.7000935
  • 0.699.1.6990880
  • 0.699.0.6990877
  • 0.698.0.6980936
  • 0.697.0.6970925
  • 0.696.0.6960797
  • 0.695.0.6950957

Common questions

Where is the official Roblox Player download?
From Roblox Corporation at setup.rbxcdn.com, their own content delivery domain. This page lists the exact URL from their published manifest with the SHA-256 for each version we have recorded.
Why is the Roblox installer only a few megabytes?
Because it is a bootstrapper. The Windows installer is about 4.6 MB and downloads the actual client when you run it, so the installer size and the installed size are not the same number.
Is the Roblox Player download link the same every version?
No, and this is the opposite of Roblox Studio. Every Player version is published at its own address containing an opaque token, so a link you were given points at one frozen build rather than at the latest one.
Do I need Roblox Player if I have Roblox Studio?
They are separate downloads with separate installers. Studio is the editor and the Player is the client that runs experiences. Installing one does not give you the other.

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