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30 Floors Up: How to Play With Friends (Solo and Co-op Party Size)

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30 Floors Up supports solo play and groups of up to four players: you plus 3 friends. What the party limit means, and how it differs from the 30-player server cap.

Quick answer

Yes, 30 Floors Up is fully playable solo. If you want company, you can team up with up to 3 friends — a group of up to four players cooperating together.

  • The cap is 3 friends in addition to you, so a full group is four players, not three.
  • Each server can hold up to 30 players, which is the server's capacity and separate from your four-player group.

30 Floors Up, the Roblox survival experience by Dateline NBC, supports both ways of playing right in its official description: play solo, or team up with up to 3 friends. Whichever you pick, the survival loop itself stays the same — you scavenge food, store water, barricade your apartment and stay quiet as zombies fill the hallways.

What the "3 friends" limit means

The limit counts other players, not total players. You can bring up to 3 friends with you, which makes a full group of four players working through the survival loop together. If you see the game described as supporting "up to four players," that figure includes you; the "3 friends" number is everyone besides you. So a trio of players is you plus two friends, and a solo run means inviting nobody at all.

A view from inside 30 Floors Up

Playing solo

Solo is a first-class option, not a fallback. "Play solo" comes before teaming up in the official description, and the game explicitly offers both — so you can start playing without assembling a group first. One guide's FAQ puts it plainly: asked whether you can play with friends, the answer is yes, solo or with up to 3 friends.

There is also no documented separate team mode to learn. Playing with friends happens inside the same shared survival activities a solo player already does: gathering food, storing water, blocking off your apartment, and moving around quietly while zombies fill the hallways. Teaming up changes who you do that work with, not what the work is.

Group size vs. server capacity

Two different player numbers apply to 30 Floors Up, and it's worth keeping them apart:

  • Your co-op group: up to 4 players. You plus up to 3 friends cooperating together.
  • The server: up to 30 players. Each server holds up to 30 players, as reported by a third-party guide and matching the game's Roblox API maxPlayers value of 30.

The 30-player figure is the full capacity of a server, not the size of your group. The cooperation limit stays at four players regardless of how much room a server has, so the server count doesn't let you bring a fifth friend.

Where to go next

If you're joining friends for the first time, the 30 Floors Up beginner guide covers the basics of staying alive, and the co-op survival guide goes deeper into surviving as a group.

Related Guides

Co-Op Survival: Dividing the Work

Split food, water, barricades, quiet movement, rooftop shelters and escape planning across a group of up to four.

Solo Survival: What Matters Most

Play alone with the same loop: scavenge, store water, barricade, and stay quiet without a teammate covering the gaps.

Beginner Guide: Your First Session

Plan your first session: scavenge food and water, barricade the apartment, move quietly, then pick solo or co-op.