Clothing store games

Clothing store games, also known as homestores, are places created and managed by clothing designers to showcase and sell their clothing. This also includes clothing malls, which often consist of smaller stores within a large area for multiple clothing designers.

Clothing store games are made to offer an alternative to browsing a clothing designer's inventory (or a group's store) or their select page on the Catalog for their on-sale clothing items, including shirts, pants, and T-Shirts. They can be directly advertised, effectively allowing for an advertisement for the clothing designer or group's whole inventory instead of only one item. Some stores occasionally have other interactive elements, usually roleplay related.

They are built in the manner of real-life clothing stores with mannequins and purchase prompts to allow players to physically browse, view, and possibly try-on their clothing before buying them for use across the Roblox site on their avatar.

Some store games, such as 's Grand Mall of Robloxia or 's Creator Mall, exist for players to set up temporary shops they can sell their clothing or clothing by other clothing designers.

History
The game type was originally only seen by larger inventory clothing designers and clothing or fashion groups.

Clothing stores became incredibly more common once Royale High began featuring clothing store games to support original clothing creators during clothing theft and catalog spamming issues on the Catalog. Royale High later invited its featured store games to participate in its Easter 2019 and Halloween 2019 events with item hunts in the stores, which drove some of the stores to the Popular section of the page during the event. This has increased the interests of clothing designers to create their own store games to be featured in the game.

A clothing store game by designer, Antilique's Vet Clinic, was on the Featured sort of the Games Page during the week of April 22, 2019 to April 29, 2019. It received backlash from some Developer Forum members due to it being an unfamiliar genre of game to be featured.