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Polytoria
Build and explore unique worlds, customize your character, socialize with others, and design your own creations. On Polytoria, the only limit is your imagination.
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Used to be a 5/5
@Ata · 7/28/2026Solid European UGC platform with a powerful open source engine, benevolent ownership, fun games, hundreds of thousands of users, a long tradition and fair moderation. Unplayable for many people including me after the non-refusable introduction of Pauly in early 2026.
Pros
- Powerful engine
- Open source (!!!)
- Not based on Unity or Unreal, based on Godot
- EU company and not extremely for-profit
- Platform is 8 years old, very well established
- Owner is a competent and likable person, while still being professional
- 800k+ users and hundreds of players active
- Genuinely fun games, many of which are active
- Flatpak support on Linux
- Moderation has been relaxing as of lately
Cons
- Introduced Pauly this year after being contacted by Roblox in a desperate attempt to avoid legal action
- Did not consult the players regarding such drastic change, causing many to leave since:
- Pauly is horrendous and doesn't fit with any game, and it is impossible to change back to the blocky character
- Lots of drama in the past, although such have become rarer and less relevant in the present
- Terribly mishandled the influx of 500k+ new users in early 2026
- Bad at communicating changes to the users, causing many unpopular updates
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has gone down hill
@CowCow · 7/29/2026its an good platform with an good community tho in recent times i feel like the community has changed a lot from its humble community not in a bad way but the modern day forums are horrible and has a lot of toxicity the discord is fine tho the owner is pretty solid and a nice likeable guy the mods are nice as well (i love you bags) tho there has been some drama in recent times with miss management its settled down tho the new "pauly" avatars are really ugly and feel like an cheap kawaii copy of roblox rthro
Pros
- open soure
- eu company
- moderation (while at times bad) is fine
- has a lot of talented people and devs making fun games
- powerful engine running lua u
- the platform has a lot of history coming from roblox07 to superium to polytoria to modern polytoria
- a lot of active players
- solid owner and is likeable
- nice community
Cons
- bad communication in recent times especially with bad unpopular updates
- a lot of drama in the past and some now
- the user influx was really mishandled
- moderation has been dicey with some drama over powertripping discord mods and an bad automod on the forums
- the forums are really toxic
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0 users found this helpful
They need more updates it’s soooo good I can’t wait for mobile
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I mean its polytoria
@BBlumine · 7/28/2026Great platform, less than ideal community but mostly non-harmful, pretty bad avatar, pretty good client.
0 users found this helpful
Solid platform, a few bumps on the road though
@isaac · 7/28/2026It's definitely one of the higher quality platforms in the SBC, and I believe it does deserve it's high rating. However, it's started to have some bumps on the road, which is expected with most scaling platforms.
Pros
- Love the trading scene
- Long-term platform in SBC
- Open source
- One of the most active communities in SBC
- Great cosmetics
- Great staff team members
- One of the first sandboxes (other than roblox and rec room) that I tried
Cons
- Uses Godot (No custom engine)
- Not transparent after the February blow up
- Pauly is horrible
- Vue drama (clear favoritism)
- Studio is hard to use
0 users found this helpful
Used to be a 5/5
@Ata · 7/28/2026Solid European UGC platform with a powerful open source engine, benevolent ownership, fun games, hundreds of thousands of users, a long tradition and fair moderation. Unplayable for many people including me after the non-refusable introduction of Pauly in early 2026.
Pros
- Powerful engine
- Open source (!!!)
- Not based on Unity or Unreal, based on Godot
- EU company and not extremely for-profit
- Platform is 8 years old, very well established
- Owner is a competent and likable person, while still being professional
- 800k+ users and hundreds of players active
- Genuinely fun games, many of which are active
- Flatpak support on Linux
- Moderation has been relaxing as of lately
Cons
- Introduced Pauly this year after being contacted by Roblox in a desperate attempt to avoid legal action
- Did not consult the players regarding such drastic change, causing many to leave since:
- Pauly is horrendous and doesn't fit with any game, and it is impossible to change back to the blocky character
- Lots of drama in the past, although such have become rarer and less relevant in the present
- Terribly mishandled the influx of 500k+ new users in early 2026
- Bad at communicating changes to the users, causing many unpopular updates
2 users found this helpful
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Pros - Powerful engine - Open source (!!!) - Not based on Unity or Unreal, based on Godot - EU company and not extremely for-profit - Platform is 8 years old, very well established - Owner is a competent and likable person, while still being professional - 800k+ users and hundreds of players active - Genuinely fun games, many of which are active - Flatpak support on Linux - Moderation has been relaxing as of lately Cons - Introduced Pauly this year after being contacted by Roblox in a desperate attempt to avoid legal action - Did not consult the players regarding such drastic change, causing many to leave since: - Pauly is horrendous and doesn't fit with any game, and it is impossible to change back to the blocky character - Lots of drama in the past, although such have become rarer and less relevant in the present - Terribly mishandled the influx of 500k+ new users in early 2026 - Bad at communicating changes to the users, causing many unpopular updates
pretty nice