The musical Hamilton swept by means of the nation years in the past, reimagining the lifetime of Alexander Hamilton through the American Revolution and institution of america. So when Hamilton got here to Roblox, a gacha recreation was the one format that made sense.

Hamilton Simulator is a brand new Roblox expertise from Tremendous League and Small World Video games, in an adaptation that AP experiences has the blessing of Hamilton author–composer Lin-Manuel Miranda. To roughly approximate the way to describe it, it’s like an idle gacha recreation. And when you’ve by no means seen a Roblox recreation earlier than, properly, you’re in for one thing.

For these unfamiliar, Roblox is much less of a person “recreation” and extra of a discussion board for video games and content material to be shared. In the event you ever performed customized video games in StarCraft or jumped on a modded Unreal Match server, you’re within the ballpark. And this explicit Roblox recreation, Hamilton Simulator, fuses components of gacha, idle, and RPG along with a musical twist. Additionally, to make clear, no Robux—in-game forex that may be bought with real-world money—is required to play.

Now, I may cease there and easily level out from a distance how odd this mix is. However I wanted to hit the pavement. I needed to see, for myself, by myself private pc, what this was. So I made a Roblox account and dove in.

I didn’t throw away my shot

Booting up the expertise, I used to be met with a brief cutscene of my Roblox avatar of their default configuration crusing into the harbor. A number of arrows directed me to a close-by chest with a coin marker on it, with sufficient coin in my pocket for a single spin of the wheel. One gacha roll later, I had myself John Laurens, a Uncommon pull. It’s price noting that whereas I’ve heard the music, I’ve not seen Hamilton. And although my U.S. Historical past grades don’t give me a lot in the best way of credentials, this does appear to be a unfastened adaptation of true occasions.

I took my newfound companion, geared up him in my menu (which additionally shows his DPS output), and went over to the place all of the British troopers have been. I clicked, and John Laurens sang at them till they exploded into cash.

This, it appears, is the loop of Hamilton Simulator. Sing on the British till they drop pocket change, and feed it into the gacha machine to fill your blocky choir. As I serenaded the King’s males to their demise, I noticed a participant run by me with a Legendary King George of their occasion. All of the whereas, a MIDI-like instrumental model of a Hamilton tune looped time and again. Once I lastly labored up sufficient money to open the subsequent space, the Public Home, I received a brand new observe and a few new guys to sing at.

A fundamental description of Hamilton Simulator is completely weird, and even within the act of taking part in it, I discovered it extraordinarily unusual. However I’ve to confess, although I went in as a lot, it’s additionally fairly benign. Hamilton Simulator is a mountain of HP bars that don’t combat again. They merely stand there, ready to be crooned out of their money by inaudible tunes. All whereas my chilly, impassive default Roblox avatar watches, ready for the cash to drop.

It’s fascinating, in the best way that Fortnite internet hosting each enormous musical live shows and academic memorials is fascinating. No precise cash is altering fingers. And it doesn’t actually appear to pivot in any manner. Sing, collect, gacha, repeat.

Sure, I’m actually curious concerning the thought course of that steered a Hamilton x Roblox crossover within the idle gacha style. It isn’t stunning that the novelty of that assertion, and some minutes spent experiencing it myself, have been about so far as the concept went. However that is the norm nowadays, too. Wrap an IP folks like round a well-known expertise, and go.

Generally, the outcomes are memorable. Or they stay in infamy. Or they’re simply dangerous. I’m unsure Hamilton Simulator offers me sufficient to benefit a real qualitative evaluation. It’s there, it exists, and it’s simply unusual sufficient that it’s price a brief tour if any of this sounded humorous.