Blow Up The City Beginner Guide: Your First Server

What the game itself tells a new player, which is one loop and one request, plus the five questions a first session raises and where each one is actually answered.

What the game asks of you, in one sentence

Blow Up The City gives a new player one instruction, and it is the first line of its own description: blow buildings up, earn money, buy powerful airstrikes. There is no stated objective beyond that, no named character, no map to complete and no ending described anywhere we can read. If you arrive expecting a campaign, the game's own text does not promise one.

Read as a beginner's brief, that sentence is actually complete for its purpose. It tells you what to do, what it produces and what to spend it on. What it does not tell you is any of the numbers, and this page is organised around that gap rather than filling it.

The one instruction the developer gives you

The last line of the description is not about gameplay at all: 'The game is in early testing, so please report any bugs or glitches you find.' That is a real request from the developer and it is worth taking at face value, because it changes how to read a first session. A game that asks for bug reports is telling you that rough edges are expected rather than exceptional.

It also explains part of the game's reception. Its rating reads 80.65 percent from 2,222 votes on 10 September 2026, the lowest of the three Roblox games this project covers, and the developer's own description is the only context we have for it. We have not read the reviews, so we are not going to claim that bugs are the reason. We are noting that the developer expects them.

Five questions a first session raises

Notice what is missing from that list: where the shop is, what a strike costs, whether your cash survives leaving the server, and whether the buildings you flatten come back. Those are the questions a beginner guide is normally built from, and not one of them is answered by anything the developer has published.

• How do I make money? By destroying things. That is the only source of income the developer names, and no payout figure is published for it anywhere.
• What do I spend it on? Airstrikes. The description calls them powerful and names four in its update list without an in-game price or an unlock order for any of them, and a fifth strike, the ICBM, is sold separately as a 199 Robux game pass, read on 10 September 2026.
• How many people are in here with me? Up to 8 per server, which is small enough that the city you are working on is shared with a handful of people rather than a crowd.
• Can I play alone or with friends? Yes. The description offers a free private server, and Roblox's own record reports that paid VIP-server creation is not enabled for this game.
• What if it breaks? Report it. That is the developer's stated request, and it is the only instruction in the description that concerns you rather than the city.

Playing on your own, on purpose

The private server offer is the most concrete piece of practical information this game gives a new player. The description asks whether you want to play with just your friends and points at a free private server, and Roblox's own game record supports the free part: it reports that paid VIP-server creation is not allowed for this title and a null price for the game itself. Both were read on 10 September 2026.

With an 8-player cap, a private server is not a way to escape a crowd. The public servers are already small. It is a way to choose who is in the city with you, which matters more here than in most Roblox games, because everyone in a server is demolishing the same city you are.

What a beginner guide for this game cannot be

We have not played Blow Up The City. Nobody on this project has. That means we cannot write the page a beginner guide usually is: a walkthrough with a first five minutes, a menu tour and a purchase order. Any version of that would be invented, and it would be invented about a game whose entire public documentation is one paragraph.

What we can do is tell you exactly which of your questions has a published answer and which does not, so that you spend your first session looking at the game rather than looking for a guide. If you do play, the three answers worth coming back with are the price of a strike, whether the cash you earn stays with you, and whether the city rebuilds. Those three would improve this page more than anything else we could write.

What to look at in your first ten minutes

We cannot write a walkthrough, but we can name the four things worth noticing, because each one answers a question this site currently cannot. Whether the server is full, which tells you what an eight-player cap feels like in practice. Where the purchase surface is, even if you do not buy anything yet. Whether anything you destroyed at the start is still gone a few minutes later. And whether the cash figure changed when the destruction happened or when the strike landed. Those four observations take ten minutes and would improve this page more than anything else we could add to it.

What we have not checked

We have not played a single session, so we cannot describe the first five minutes, a starting area, a tutorial prompt, a shop interface or a control list. We have not read player reviews, watched a start-to-finish video, or read the developer's group posts, which is where onboarding details would most likely be explained. We also do not know whether new players are placed in a shared public server by default, which is the ordinary Roblox behaviour and is not the same as something this game has stated.

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