Imagine your phone battery, except it floats over your head and you have been stuck on 1% since birth. That is a normal Tuesday in the world of in this town Roblox stories, the short animated videos where one strange rule runs an entire town. Cry and you turn into your dog. Smile too hard on picture day and you vanish. Drop something and the floor keeps it, which seems fair if you are a floor. Below, I rank the 10 best stories from two recent compilations, break down each plot and twist, explain the formula behind them, and answer the question everyone eventually asks: can you actually play this? Spoilers ahead, because the endings are the whole fun.

What Are In This Town Roblox Stories?

Every entry starts with the same promise: in this town, something ordinary is secretly dangerous. Walking, blinking, falling over and even yawning can all carry consequences. The hook fits in one sentence, and the rest of the video follows a kid who is terrible at living under that rule.

The stories move fast. Chapter markers on one six-story compilation put each tale at roughly two to three minutes, which leaves just enough time for a rule, a disaster and a twist. Compilations then stitch these shorts into longer watches, which is how you end up 40 minutes deep, emotionally invested in a turtle's road-crossing career.

Where Did Roblox Rule Stories Come From?

Roblox has been a storytelling stage for over a decade. An early experience called Super Sad Story arrived in September 2014 and collected more than 513,000 visits over nine years. A year later, one sad story video made with Roblox characters began a run that passed 20 million views in eight years. By 2023, a very different storytime format was everywhere: robotic narration over clips of obstacle courses, published at a pace so relentless that critics compared it to factory output.

Rule stories feel like the next step. The characters act out the plot instead of idly jumping across platforms while a robot voice talks about somebody's cheating boyfriend. Short clips also feed the format on TikTok, where one video about a deadly game of tag passed 77,000 likes. Other hooks in circulation include turning to stone if you stop moving for three seconds and turning blue if you lie. My favorite is a town where saying "I'm fine" when you are not makes it rain on you, which would flood most offices by noon.

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What Are the Best In This Town Roblox Stories?

This is my own ranking, based on four things: how strong the rule is, how well the twist lands, how much the ending makes you feel, and whether I would watch it again. Compilations do not show views per story, so popularity played no part. Think of it as one critic's opinion, delivered with far too much seriousness.

1. Everyone Wakes Up at 100%, I Wake Up at 1%

Everyone has a battery percentage floating overhead, and laughing costs a percent. Our narrator has been stuck at 1% for life, so joy is basically a budgeting problem. Then the town's numbers start dropping. One night, the narrator catches Mom plugging a cable into their back and learns her proud 100% is a sticker hiding 2%. Behind it all stands the Drain, a creature taller than the church with cables running into every house. The narrator pulls a giant plug, resets the town, and shares power with Mom.

• Best part: The sticker reveal turns a joke rule into a story about sacrifice.
• Weak spot: A world-ending monster defeated by unplugging is very IT department.

2. Mr. Click Takes Your Smile

Every October, a tall figure on tripod legs, with a vintage camera for a head, takes school photos. Whoever smiles biggest disappears into a framed picture, their desk sits empty, and everyone forgets them. The narrator survives by blinking in every shot. After Maya, Zach and Theo vanish, the narrator learns Mom blinked in her 1994 yearbook for the sake of her best friend. At the all-school photo, the narrator finally keeps both eyes open and bounces the flash back with a tiny mirror, freeing decades of victims.

• Best part: "Hold still, sweetie" is the creepiest line in either compilation.
• Weak spot: The mirror trick is a familiar way to beat a monster.

3. Every Time You Cry, You Turn Into Your Pet

One tear and you become your pet, and only a smile changes you back. Age offers no protection. Dad takes over the cooking to keep onions out of the house, which is the smartest parenting in this whole article. When 6-year-old Mia goes missing at the county fair, the narrator cries, becomes golden retriever Biscuit, and sniffs her out in hamster form under a pile of bears. The family then parades home as a small, confused zoo.

• Best part: The trait that embarrasses the narrator becomes the exact skill that saves Mia.
• Weak spot: It is too sweet to ever feel dangerous.

4. Everyone Hides From the Seeker

The whole world lives in underground houses, bushes and closets, whispering rules to avoid a Seeker who is counting to a billion. The narrator wanders across the counting field to a giant tree and finds a tiny old lady in a faded pink dress. She has been counting for 80 years because her friends told her to as a joke. One accidental "found you" ends the count and frees everybody.

• Best part: The most feared figure on Earth turns out to be a kid whose friends never came back for her.
• Weak spot: Humanity gets saved by a slip of the tongue, so the hero does little.

5. The World's Slowest Road Crossing Championship

The narrator helps Grandma Rose cross the road and gets hit with her purse, because she was competing and has now lost a million dollars. To make it right, the narrator enters the race against Turtle Ted, champion since 2016. Feet can never stop moving. Hours crawl by, an ice cream truck tests everyone's morals, and one sneeze nearly ends the whole campaign.

• Best part: Grandma Rose has been crossing since Tuesday. Nobody on this list is more committed.
• Weak spot: It is the funniest entry and the lightest emotionally.

6. You Wake Up Wearing Your Dream

Whatever you wore in your dream is what you wake up wearing. The narrator always gets boring pajamas while the neighbors show up in full costume. Then little brother Max starts having nightmares about a 10-eyed monster. The brothers fall asleep holding hands, meet the monster together and simply yawn at it. Max wakes up in a superhero outfit, and the narrator earns a monster tamer badge.

• Best part: Yawning at your fear is a strangely good piece of advice.
• Weak spot: The stakes stay low because the danger never leaves the dream.

7. The Floor Keeps You After 5 Seconds

Anything left on the floor for five seconds belongs to the floor. That includes people. A 12-foot janitor patrols on mops, wearing a bucket as a hat, and when he drags friend Owen under, only Owen's shoes remain, neatly standing where he was. The narrator, a chronic faller, lies down on purpose, reaches the storage room below, comes back and trips the janitor. The floor promptly coughs everything up.

• Best part: Those tidy empty shoes are the scariest image in the anthology.
• Weak spot: The premise leans on a familiar playground game.

8. Never Move Unless Simon Says

A 20-foot giant with a baby face, a tiny party hat and a golden megaphone commands the town. Move without "Simon says" and you sit on the bench forever. The narrator gets benched for scratching an itchy nose, which is the most relatable crime here. Then comes the realization: the magic is in the words, not the voice. The narrator climbs the tower, grabs the megaphone and beats Simon at his own game.

• Best part: The loophole is clever, and kids will feel smart for spotting it.
• Weak spot: Once you see the megaphone, you can guess the ending.

9. Everyone Has a Luck Number, Mine Was Zero

A number overhead shows your luck, and the narrator's is zero. Toast lands butter side down and umbrellas flip inside out. During the annual Lucky Day wheel spin, bully Jake dominates with 999. Then the twist arrives: the number tracks luck already used, so zero means 12 years of unspent fortune. One chain reaction later, the mayor's winning ticket lands in the narrator's hands, along with a lifetime supply of lucky coins.

• Best part: The reversal instantly changes how you read every earlier scene.
• Weak spot: The win simply happens to the hero, so it feels less earned.

10. The Rubber Sidewalk

Mia reaches for a kite and falls from a third-story windowsill. The narrator dives, hits the pavement, and turns the concrete into bouncing rubber, launching her safely into the air. The patch becomes a local landmark known as the "hug spot."

• Best part: A rescue leaves behind a landmark, which is a lovely closing image.
• Weak spot: It has the least developed rule of the 10.

Why Do Roblox Animation Stories Like These Work So Well?

When I first ran the battery story, I expected a cheap joke about phone chargers. Then Mom's 100% turned out to be a sticker, and I sat there having feelings about a blocky character and a charging cable. I have spent years hunting weird anime and forgotten VHS oddities, and that reveal uses a trick older than both: give the audience a rule, then show them who has been quietly paying for it.

Look closer and you will notice something else. These rules are game mechanics wearing a costume. The battery is a health bar. The luck number is a stat. The floor is the floor is lava, Simon is Simon Says, and the Seeker is hide and seek stretched across 80 years. Kids raised on Roblox already understand fail states and hidden systems, so nobody needs the rules explained twice. The thrill comes from watching someone find the exploit.

The heroes also follow a clear pattern, because the flaw that makes the kid a loser is nearly always the thing that saves the town:

Parents carry the other half of the emotion. Mom hides her real battery level and turns out to have faced Mr. Click herself in 1994. Adults in these towns follow the rules because they have already paid for them, and it takes a kid with nothing to lose to test whether the rules hold.

Can You Play These Stories, and Where Can You Watch Them?

Treat them as shows, not games. As far as I can find, "In This Town" is a story format used across many videos and accounts, with no single official game behind it. Searching for it on Roblox may turn up unrelated town roleplay games, so do not expect to log in and meet Mr. Click.

For the full versions, search YouTube for "in this town Roblox stories" and look for compilations. For bite-size hooks, try the #inthistown and #robloxstory tags on TikTok. Quality varies wildly, and some compilation channels openly say their clips belong to the original creators. If you enjoy a story, track down the channel that made it, since that is where new episodes will appear.

Which In This Town Story Should You Watch First?

Start with the battery story if you want the best twist, Mr. Click if you want a proper chill, and the road crossing championship if you want to laugh at a turtle's long reign. Pay attention to the kid everyone has written off, because that kid is going to fix everything by lunchtime. Then tell me which rule you would survive the longest. I give myself about four seconds in the Simon town, since my nose is always itchy.