As an indirect result of this, Jailbreak has also seen significant criticism compared to Prison Life & Redwood.
This is especially unusual because both Prison Life and Redwood Prison came out long before Jailbreak. It credited with causing noticeable losses to both games, with Prison Life and Redwood Prison both losing nearly half of their players since Jailbreak came out. Jailbreak takes heavy inspiration from Prison Life by Aesthetical and Redwood Prison by RoyStanford, but focuses more on gameplay outside the prison. Counting collective sales of microtransactions and gamepasses, Jailbreak has earned over 1B Robux in revenue (which translates to over US$3,000,000 through DevEx). Jailbreak's massive success has resulted in winning 13 awards at the 5th Annual Bloxy Awards 2018. It gained strong competition in early 2019 with the release of Mad City, a very similar cops-and-robbers style game. However, this is also influenced by Badimo's strategic planning for releasing updates. It became the first game to reach 2,000,000 favorites in the summer of 2018.Īlthough the game tends to fluctuate in concurrent rankings, Jailbreak is considered the default most popular game on Roblox due to the length of time that it has remained near the top spot on the front page. It was also the second game to reach 200,000,000 visits in less than a year, and the first to reach 2,000,000,000 visits in less than 2 years on November 8, 2018.
On December 23, 2017, the game surpassed 121K concurrent players which was a record at a time on, beating the former record held by Egg Hunt 2017: The Lost Eggs. However, the content was adjusted to be playable for kids and to abide with Roblox's Terms of Service. The game bears a resemblance to the Grand Theft Auto series, particularly with the ability to rob places such as banks. Developed by asimo3089 and badcc, the game was released on April 21, 2017. Jailbreak is an open-world action Roblox game with a cops-and-robbers theme.