Hamilton Simulator imagines the musical as a gacha game inside Roblox

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The musical Hamilton swept through the country years ago, reimagining the life of Alexander Hamilton during the American Revolution and establishment of the United States. So when Hamilton came to Roblox, a gacha game was the only format that made sense.

Hamilton Simulator is a new Roblox experience from Super League and Small World Games, in an adaptation that AP reports has the blessing of Hamilton writer–composer Lin-Manuel Miranda. To roughly approximate how to describe it, it’s like an idle gacha game. And if you’ve never seen a Roblox game before, well, you’re in for something.

For those unfamiliar, Roblox is less of an individual “game” and more of a forum for games and content to be shared. If you ever played custom games in StarCraft or jumped on a modded Unreal Tournament server, you’re in the ballpark. And this particular Roblox game, Hamilton Simulator, fuses elements of gacha, idle, and RPG together with a musical twist. Also, to clarify, no Robux—in-game currency that can be purchased with real-world cash—is required to play.

Now, I could stop there and simply point out from a distance how odd this combination is. But I needed to hit the pavement. I had to see, for myself, on my own personal computer, what this was. So I made a Roblox account and dove in.

Booting up the experience, I was met with a short cutscene of my Roblox avatar in their default configuration sailing into the harbor. A few arrows directed me to a nearby chest with a coin marker on it, with enough coin in my pocket for a single spin of the wheel. One gacha roll later, I had myself John Laurens, a Rare pull. It’s worth noting that while I’ve heard the music, I have not seen Hamilton. And though my U.S. History grades don’t give me much in