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The Mimic is a horror survival game on Roblox from CTStudio, a verified Roblox group, built around four stories drawn from Japanese history and urban legends, each one played out as a separate in-game book. Every figure on this page comes from Roblox's own public API rather than a tracker's paraphrase, and each one is stamped with the moment we read it. At 22:34 UTC on August 18, 2026 the game was live with 3,891 players in game and 1,241,997,152 lifetime visits.

Coverage stance: We have first-party numbers for The Mimic and we have not played it. This hub stops where our evidence stops — there is no strategy guide here, no chapter walkthrough, and no invented mechanic. Our codes page treats every code as a dated source-listed signal and states plainly where trackers disagree.

Live Snapshot

Read directly from Roblox's own public endpoints at 22:34 UTC on August 18, 2026, for universe 2294168059 (root place 6243699076). These are raw platform fields, not estimates. Both links open the live JSON, so you can re-run our reading yourself rather than take our word for it — the numbers will have moved on since we read them, which is the point:

games.roblox.com/v1/games — players in game, visits, favourites, created and updated dates, live title.
games.roblox.com/v1/games/votes — the up and down vote counts behind the approval figure.

Players in game3,891at 22:34 UTC, Aug 18

Lifetime visits1.24B1,241,997,152 exactly

Favourites3.35M0.27% of visits

Approval90.0%1.12M up / 124K down

Age5y 7mlaunched January 15, 2021

Last dev updateAug 1409:13 UTC, four days before this reading

Server size38max players

GenreHorrorsurvival / escape sub-genre

Live title at reading: The Mimic · Developer: CTStudio (Roblox group 9482918, verified badge) · Universe 2294168059, root place 6243699076.

What Is Live Right Now

The following comes from the game's own description field on the Roblox API, read August 18, 2026 — first-party, not a tracker's paraphrase.

"HOF IS COMING VERY SOON!" That is the description's opening line, verbatim. It does not say what HOF stands for, what it adds, or when — no date, no threshold. We are not guessing what it means; we are naming it because it is the only forward-looking line in the description, and leaving it out would understate what the developers have actually said.
Icon and thumbnail art credited to Tempest. The description credits the current icon and thumbnail artwork to an artist named Tempest.

The description carries no live event, no code text and no currency name — a thinner first-party field than some other Roblox hubs we cover, which is why this page does not carry a "What These Numbers Actually Mean" section or claim a current in-game event beyond what is quoted above.

Background

The Mimic launched on January 15, 2021 and has been updated since — the most recent developer update recorded by the platform was August 14, 2026, four days before this reading. Across roughly 5 years and 7 months it has accumulated over 1.24 billion visits, which averages out to roughly 609,000 visits per day of its life (1,241,997,152 visits ÷ 2,041 days), though real traffic is far from evenly spread.

The description carries a standing warning that the game contains flashing lights, loud noises and jumpscares, which we mention because it is a first-party player-facing fact rather than opinion. It also recommends headphones "for the best experience" and names an original soundtrack, credited to Ampient, without linking it.

Illustration of four glowing book covers arranged in a row, each with a faint Japanese-folklore motif — Original illustrationThe game is built around four stories, each one an in-game book, as described under "How the Game Works" below. Our illustration of that structure, not a picture of the actual in-game books.

How the Game Works

Per the game's own description, The Mimic is four stories created from Japanese history and urban legends, and in each book players find themselves as different characters venturing into "the unknown depths of worlds that mimic our reality". That is the honest limit of what we can state first-party. We have not played the game and we are not going to describe puzzle solutions, chapter order, enemy behaviour or survival techniques from second-hand summaries — if we cannot source it first-party, it does not go on the page.

Illustration of a lone player character creeping through a dim, traditional Japanese-style corridor with a shadowy figure at the far end — Original illustrationThe description says players venture into "the unknown depths of worlds that mimic our reality" across the game's four stories. Our own artwork interpreting that description, not a capture from the game.

Official Channels

Where to go for first-party information. We link these without nofollow because we have checked them and we do stand behind them, unlike the third-party trackers we cite on the codes page.

The Mimic on Roblox — the game itself, and the description field that most of this page is sourced from.
CTStudio — the verified developer group, which the description names directly for updates and support.

The raw API endpoints behind our figures are linked in the Live Snapshot section above rather than here, because they are a verification tool rather than somewhere a player would go.

Illustration of a stylised shield-and-checkmark badge next to a simple group-icon silhouette — Original illustrationCTStudio holds a verified badge on the Roblox group (9482918) that publishes The Mimic, per the live API read above. Our illustration of the idea of a verified badge, not a copy of Roblox's actual badge artwork.

The Mimic Guides

The Mimic Codes (August 2026)

One source-listed signal every tracker carries, a group of disputed Book 3-era codes held apart, and the redemption steps several competing pages still get wrong.

Codes

The description carries no code text of its own, so everything on the codes page comes from third-party trackers we date and cross-check rather than from Roblox's API. Codes there are treated as source-listed signals, never as confirmed working codes, until we can verify one in-game.

Illustration of a single glowing rune-marked token floating above an open ledger page — Original illustrationCodes for this game are treated as dated source-listed signals rather than confirmed active codes, as explained on the codes page. Our illustration of the idea of a code, not a picture of the redemption screen.

Go to The Mimic Codes →

One consensus signal, a disputed Book 3 group, and a dated source list.

Update Rule

We do not mark a code as active just because another page says it is active, and we do not quote a player count without saying when we read it. This page records what was checked, when it was checked, and where the evidence runs out.