Grace is not a game that fits neatly into any box. Created by the group The Fartering Few on Roblox, it is a first-person horror speedrun game where players must navigate through a series of endless brick hallways by using movement mechanics to gain speed and escape various entities. Although there is no explicit worldview laid out, the game is closely tied to Christian mythology, with entities that symbolize sin and a constantly present God who guides the player forward. The player can be interpreted as a sinner trying to wash away mistakes and gain salvation through God’s grace.
That unique identity made its recent drama all the more painful for the people who loved it.
What Makes Grace Special
Before diving into the controversy, it helps to understand why this game built such a devoted following in such a short time.
Grace takes after the Rooms-like genre, drawing inspiration from media including DOORS, Pizza Tower, and The Bible. Under the guidance of God, the player maneuvers through an endless maze from saferoom to saferoom, while avoiding the monsters that stalk it. The main goal of the core gamemode is to reach the next saferoom and race against a timer of two minutes and thirty seconds, which pauses after reaching the saferoom and restarts when you proceed from it.
What sets Grace apart from other Rooms-style games on Roblox is the intentionality behind its design. The main motif is Christianity, and players avoid entities that represent sins and troubles while being guided to continue by God. God, while seemingly ominous, is depicted as immensely patient, all-loving, and forgiving of His creations. The game does not use its Christian framing to criticize or satirize religion. Instead, it leans into the message of grace itself: that failure is not the end, and that you are always welcome to try again.
The game built collaborations with several other respected titles on the platform. Grace collaborated with Nullscape, Blox Cards, Delusional Office, Pressure, and Zee Bawx2 throughout its lifetime. Grace, these were meaningful partnerships, a sign of how seriously the broader Roblox horror community took the project.
The Drama: What Actually Happened
The controversy surrounding Grace broke out in late March 2025. At the center of it was Simon, the primary developer of Grace, and his girlfriend, who goes by a name commonly romanized as Finn.
On March 30th, Simon’s girlfriend was exposed for saying racist and homophobic things in private. What escalated the situation was that Simon was actively defending these comments, making excuses, including describing the behavior as a coping mechanism.
The “coping mechanism” defense landed particularly badly. Pressure moved to remove its collaborative content with Grace, the Nullscape developers threatened to pull their collab as well, and some members of the Grace development team stepped away entirely. The fallout was swift and significant. The drama led to the main developer quitting development, fear among the rest of the dev team, and the very real possibility of the game being discontinued.
Simon Leaves the Team
Perhaps the most significant consequence of the whole ordeal was Simon’s departure from the Grace team. The situation had escalated to the point where there was genuine uncertainty about whether the game would ever see another update. The doxxing and harassment that accompanied the wave of community backlash only made things worse, with some observers pointing out that targeting other members of the team who had nothing to do with the controversy was both unfair and counterproductive.
For a game that was largely the product of one person’s passion, Simon’s exit was not just a personnel change. It was an existential crisis for Grace itself.
The Community Reaction: Where Things Got Complicated
Not everyone handled the situation with care. A lot of players were feeling but not saying out loud: the community’s response was, at times, just as troubling as the original incident.
Some users on social media went so far as to compare Simon to a major historical war criminal, a leap that is baseless and harmful. It was not that people were wrong to be upset. It was that the response had become more about performing outrage than actually addressing anything.
There were calls online insisting that playing Grace at all meant supporting racism and homophobia. At the same time, some of those same voices were engaging in the kind of reckless labeling and pile-on behavior that they claimed to oppose. Tweets making extreme accusations were racking up thousands of likes with almost no pushback.
There was also a troubling pattern of generalization, with some online commentary painting all Christian players or themes as inherently suspicious or complicit. For a game built around the gentler, more hopeful aspects of Christianity rather than any kind of dogma or gatekeeping, this felt especially disconnected from what Grace was actually about.
Apologies, Collaborations, and What Came After
As of shortly after the initial explosion of controversy, both Simon and his girlfriend issued apologies for their actions. Whether those apologies were accepted depended on who you asked. Some community members felt that genuine accountability had been shown and that the situation could move toward resolution. Others remained skeptical that anything meaningful had changed.
The collaboration fallout remained a concrete consequence regardless of how the personal side of things was received. Pressure removed its Grace collaboration content as a result of the controversy. For a game that had spent months building meaningful partnerships with other respected titles, losing those connections was a real blow to the game’s visibility and community standing. Some members of the development team reportedly tried to push Simon toward doing the right thing before things fully unraveled.
Is It Okay to Still Play Grace?
This is the question a lot of players found themselves sitting with, and there is no single answer that applies to everyone. If you no longer want to play Grace because of the drama, that is a completely valid choice. If you still enjoy the game and want to keep playing, that is also valid. No one should feel policed about it in either direction.
What is worth holding onto is the recognition that Grace, as a game, represented something that rarely shows up on Roblox. It was a project built with genuine care, around a theme that most developers would never attempt, executed with enough craft and personality to earn a real following. The entities, the pacing, the quiet theological weight of the whole thing, these were not accidental. They came from someone who had a real vision for what a game could be.
Just as the game’s own lore suggests, there is always the possibility of moving forward and starting again. The only question is whether the people involved choose to do so.
Grace may still have a future. Whether that future involves Simon, a different team, or an open-source continuation of the project remains unclear. What is clear is that the game left a mark on the players who found it, and losing it, even temporarily, was genuinely painful for a community that had come to see it as something special.
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I am Tanmoy Nath, a gaming writer and Roblox enthusiast with over 6 years of experience covering online games. I have been playing Roblox since 2022, with a deep focus on games like Fisch, Grow a Garden, Paradox, and popular tycoon titles. At Fans First Booyah!, I write beginner guides, tier lists, and update breakdowns – all based on hands-on gameplay rather than secondhand information. My aim is to help both new and experienced Roblox players get the most out of every game they pick up.