Kaiju Paradise

Overview

Kaiju Paradise is a Roblox Experience by T Z B Studio made as a prototype for their upcoming game The Final Experiment. The game puts players into one of two roles; humans or Gootraxians, a monster species. Human players try to survive against the Gootraxians as long as possible, using weapons and items to fend them off, while Gootraxians try to convert all human players into Gootraxians by attacking and grabbing them. The Experience was created in February 2021 and became increasingly popular throughout the next year, with over 490,000 favorites and 130 million visits as of September 2022. It has also inspired a large fan art and content community and became well-liked among furries for the designs of the Gootraxians.

History

On February 28th, 2021, the first version of Kaiju Paradise was created by T Z B Studio and published to Roblox.^[1] Around July 2021, the game was updated to version 3.0. That year, fans of the game began posting Let's Play videos about it (examples shown below).

There are 31 different types of Gootraxian available to play as in Kaiju Paradise, including the furry species Protogens. A full list of playable species is available on the Kaiju Paradise Fandom page.^[2] On April 20th, 2022, YouTuber sealbie posted a video on how to become every type of Gootraxian, garnering over 830,000 views in five months (shown below).

Online Presence

Soundtrack

Kaiju Paradise's soundtrack is produced by Fishcracks. On September 27th, 2021, Fishcracks uploaded 15 tracks from the soundtrack to YouTube, the most popular ones, "Not Enough Time" and "JAMS VIP" garnering over 750,000 and 710,000 views in a year (shown below, left and right).^[3]

Fan Content

Kaiju Paradise has inspired a considerable fan art community on sites including Twitter, ArtStation^[4] and Deviant Art,^[5] the latter of which has over 8,000 results for the search term "kaiju paradise." A large portion of the art comes from furry artists drawing the game's Gootraxian species (examples shown below).

Animations, memes and Let's Plays for the game are also popular, particularly on YouTube. On March 20th, 2022, YouTuber Kazuko posted a video titled, "What your favorite Gootraxian from Kaiju paradise says about you," garnering over 360,000 views in six months (shown below, left). On June 9th, YouTuber ꧁Strawberryz꧂ posted an animation titled, "types of people in kaiju paradise," garnering over 519,000 views in three months (shown below, right).

Search Interest

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