Blocking a game and adjusting content maturity: the exact route
You can bar a specific game regardless of its rating, and you can move a slider that sets the level of content allowed. They are two different controls and they are almost always confused. Here is the route for each, and the catch of the blocked game that still shows up in search.
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Inside Roblox parental controls there are two buttons that solve different things and are constantly swapped for each other. One blocks a specific game. The other sets what kind of content can appear, in general.
Anyone using the wrong one comes away feeling the control does not work. This piece separates the two, gives the exact route for each, and explains the catch of the blocked game that stays in search.
The short answer
Blocking a game prevents access to that experience, whatever its content maturity rating. It is a block by name: you choose the title and that is it. It is for the case where the game is technically inside the allowed level and you still do not want it.
Adjusting maturity moves a slider that sets the level of content allowed on the account. It is a broad filter that applies to everything at once. The adjustment exists for Roblox Kids accounts and for under-13s on Roblox Select accounts, and it is there to adapt the default restriction to the child's sensitivity.
The practical rule: one game, use the block; one type of thing, use the slider.
The two routes, click by click
To block a game:
- Go to Settings. On desktop, the gear icon is in the top right. On mobile, tap More, at the bottom right, and then Settings.
- Go into Parental Controls and choose your child's account.
- Scroll down to Settings you manage and choose Content restrictions.
- Choose Blocked games.
- Tap the plus icon. In the search bar, type the name of the experience you want to block.
- Choose Block and confirm.
To unblock later, the route is the same and the button becomes Unblock.
To adjust the maturity level:
- Go to Settings.
- Go into Parental controls and choose your child's account.
- Scroll down to Settings you manage and choose Content restrictions.
- Choose Content maturity.
- Drag the slider right or left to the level you are comfortable with. A short description of the kind of content at that level appears below the slider.
It is worth reading the description before confirming: it is the only part of the screen that says, in words, what changes.
Which control solves which problem
The table pairs each problem with the right control, gives the route to Settings on both device types, and separates three details that tend to surprise people.
The most important of the three: a block beats the rating. A game rated inside the allowed level stays blocked if you blocked it by name. The two controls do not compete — the block by name is more specific and it prevails.
The catches
A blocked game still appears in search. This is the one that causes the most confusion, and it is written on the official page: blocked experiences still appear in search results. They simply do not open. So if you blocked a game and the child still sees it in the list, the block may be working perfectly — the test is trying to enter, not searching.
Blocking one game does not block the lookalikes. A popular game has dozens of imitations with nearly identical names. Blocking them one by one is a race you lose. For a whole category of content, the route is the maturity slider.
The slider does not reach every age. The maturity adjustment applies to Kids accounts and to under-13s on Select. Above that, the remaining control is a different one.
The Restricted level is for verified adults. Experiences at that level are only available to 18+ verified accounts. It is not a level you unlock by dragging the slider on a child's account.
Moving the slider changes everything at once. Unlike the block, which is surgical, the slider redefines what appears across the whole platform for that account. Games the child already played may disappear, and it is worth warning them first to avoid the impression that the app broke.
The route goes through "Settings you manage". That section is easy to miss because it comes after scrolling. Anyone who cannot find Content restrictions almost always stopped scrolling too early.
The block is per experience, not per creator. If the same studio publishes another game with similar content, it does not join the block automatically. Each name has to be added to the list, one by one — one more reason to solve what you can with the maturity slider before resorting to blocks.
What to do next
Start with the maturity slider and only then use blocking by name. The order matters: the slider solves the category, and the block solves the exceptions left over. Doing it the other way round produces an enormous block list that the slider would have handled in one move.
After adjusting, sit with the child and go into the platform together. The fastest way to find out whether the level came out too tight or too loose is to look at the list of games that appears for them now.
And if the goal was to bar a game everyone at school is playing, it is worth talking rather than only blocking. A silent block turns into a hunt for an alternative account, and an alternative account has no controls at all.
A note on choosing the level on the slider, since the screen does not help much with it. Do not think of the level as an age rating — think of the kind of thing you do not want appearing without warning. The description that shows up below the slider exists for that, and it changes as you drag. Read the two or three descriptions around the point where you stopped before confirming: the difference between one level and the next is usually far more specific than the name suggests.
And put a review in the calendar for a month from now. Content control is not a decision you make once: the child grows, the games change, and a level that was right in September may be tight by November. Scheduling a revisit is cheaper than finding out through a complaint.
Sources
- Parental Controls | Roblox — checked on
Ready-to-use artifact
| Problem | The right control | Where it lives |
|---|---|---|
| One specific game you do not want | block the experience | Content restrictions, Blocked games |
| A type of content in general | the maturity slider | Content restrictions, Content maturity |
| A game inside the allowed level but unwanted | block the experience | a block beats the rating |
| Several similar games | the maturity slider | blocking one by one does not scale |
| Route | Desktop | Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Getting to Settings | gear icon, top right | More, bottom right, then Settings |
| Detail | What happens |
|---|---|
| A blocked game | still appears in search, but does not open |
| The Restricted level | only for 18+ verified accounts |
| Scope of the adjustment | Kids accounts and under-13s on Select |
Routes checked against the official parental controls page on 23/09/2026. Source: about.roblox.com/parental-controls
