Hey Super Animals! Thank you for an incredible Super Animal World launch, and for all the feedback so far. It’s been a huge help as we plan what’s next, and it helped guide a lot of what we prioritized in the roadmap below.

We've also got a bit more context on what we’re focusing on first and why. Also: despite their size, we managed to sneak Super Elephants into the Research Lab this week. More on that later, but first let’s jump straight into what’s coming next to the island.


v2.0 was a massive lift for the team. It reshaped the game loop around the Social Hub, added story quests, and introduced new activities like fishing, bug catching, and hamsterball racing. Shipping all of that at once was a huge effort, but we didn’t want you waiting until 2026 to get your paws on it, so the team pushed hard to ship it by the end of the year.

The goal was to get a strong foundation in place and keep building on it this year. We wouldn’t call it “Early Access 2.0” because SAR is already a very mature game after 8 years of development, but for the Social Hub side of things, it’s the start of a new era of iteration. We’re getting back to regular quarterly seasonal updates, which means a faster feedback loop and more chances to polish and expand what v2.0 kicked off. We’re going to keep building on the Social Hub, but we’re also shifting more attention back to the battle royale and our other game modes, with improvements and polish across the board.

Everything in this roadmap is subject to change as we dig into building it all, but we wanted to give you a sense of our upcoming priorities and how we’re thinking about the next updates to SAR, while still keeping a few surprises up our super sleeves!

The Year of the Super Horse event kicks off next month with new Super Animals, challenges and cosmetics!

It’ll also include some smaller quality of life improvements, like tagging certain quests as “long-term” so they don’t clutter your HUD, tuning down a handful of quests that were a bit too difficult, and making Louie’s later pearl hunting quests more forgiving. We also spent some time cleaning up smaller stuff, like typos, a few hamsterball race track tweaks, and some behind-the-scenes optimizations that reduce memory usage (especially helpful on Switch).

This will be our first big update since Super Animal World, and we’re packing it with improvements based on your feedback. Now that v2.0 is live, we’ll be iterating faster with big seasonal updates throughout the year, starting with one early this spring.

You can look forward to highly requested UI upgrades like a search bar for cosmetics in Customize, faster and easier queuing (and re-queuing), and more polish across our newer screens and features. We’re also improving the Social Hub experience for groups, including making it easier to get onto the same server as your friends.

We’re shifting more focus back to the battle royale and our other core game modes too. We can’t share all the details just yet, but we’re actively working on it now, so keep the feedback coming. We’ve also heard you on match fullness, so we’re designing a Featured Mode system to encourage players to queue into specific modes (including Hamsterball Racing) at certain times, while still keeping your freedom to play what you want.

Beyond the Major Spring Update, we’ve also been planning the rest of the year and have a few items we’re particularly excited about to share.

You might have noticed the beaver construction site in the northwest of Murre Woods. The beavers are still hard at work, and later this year they’ll be unveiling a museum where you can view all the bugs you’ve caught. And yes, your fish will be getting a proper place to show off too. We’re also planning to keep expanding bug catching and fishing over time as we build out those systems and mechanics.

That’s right, we’ll be doing more collabs, and we already have a few lined up! We’re especially excited to team up with other indie studios and highlight games we love, like our collab with Snoozy Kazoo for the in-game Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion items (which will return once our new collab setup is ready).

If there’s an indie game or character you’d love to see in SAR, let us know. We can’t promise anything, but we’re always happy to reach out and see what we can make happen!

Despite SAR’s cute combatants and terrible puns, a lot of you have gotten really, really good at this silly animal game over the years, and we love watching it. We’ve always loved seeing your skill on display in things like SAR Tonight’s Superest Kills segment. We want to do a better job supporting competitive play going forward, while still keeping SAR easy to pick up and welcoming.

We won’t try to turn SAR into an esport (unless Donk and Howl force us), and we’re definitely not done adding wacky stuff either. But we do think there’s room to better support competitive play without sanding down the chaos everywhere else, and we’ve got a few ideas we want to test later this year. We also want it to still feel like SAR even when things get intense and competitive: friendly, funny, and not too serious.

Now that the Social Hub is up and running, it’s time to keep expanding it and adding more things to do. We’ve got new activities and world events planned, along with more quest lines and NPCs to meet.

If there’s anything you’d like to see added, let us know! Except gambling. Gambling gets suggested a lot and we can’t do that.


We figured you’d have a lot of questions, so we’re hosting a Reddit AMA on r/animalroyale this Tuesday, January 20th at 5pm PT until 6pm PT!

Come ask us anything about Super Animal Royale, Super Animal World, Pixile Studios, or what’s next! We’ll do our best to answer as many as we can. :)


And if you want another opportunity to hang out and ask questions, Pixile Plays is returning to Twitch next Thursday, January 22nd at 3pm PT! Join Kaity, Logan, and Michael as we play some games and chat with the community.

Make sure to follow our Twitch channel[www.twitch.tv] so you get a notification for when we’re live.


Now that we’ve addressed most of the elephants in the room… let’s address four more. (Sorry.) Super Elephants are available in the Research Lab!

• Super Elephant
  
• Super African Elephant
  
• Super Pink Elephant
  
• Super White Elephant

The Lab Labs are always working on new Super Animals, so let us know what you’d like to see next in the comments or on Discord.


https://store.steampowered.com/app/997360/Super_Animal_Royale_Soundtrack/
Catbaux’s amazing Super Animal World tracks are out now for your listening pleasure on streaming platforms like Bandcamp[catbaux.bandcamp.com], Spotify[open.spotify.com], and Apple Music[music.apple.com]! The Steam soundtrack has also been updated with the new tracks if you’d like to support Catbaux further.

Watch the full playlist on YouTube


At the time of posting this, our Dr. Dogna and Zombie Joe Youtooz pre-orders end in about 24 hours, closing at 12pm PT on Friday, January 16th!

Pre-order here: https://youtooz.com/collections/super-animal-royale

As a bonus, they both include in-game cosmetics:

• Dr. Dogna includes a code for the new Mini Tiger With Wire pet
  
• Zombie Joe Monitor Buddiez 2-pack includes two in-game Zombie Joe hats

We hope you enjoy this look into what we’re working on and we can’t wait to answer more of your questions! Your continued support means so much to us.

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See you on the island, Super Animals!

- Michael, Logan, & the Community team

It’s hard to believe Super Animal World has already been out for two whole weeks. It’s been a blast playing with all of you, and we’ve loved seeing your clips from around the island!

Now it’s time for the third and final week of CRISPRmas celebrations. With all three weeks now unlocked, you have until Friday, January 2nd to complete the full set of challenges and unlock all of the event rewards before CRISPRmas wraps up for this year.


A true CRISPRmas miracle has also arrived in the Research Lab: the Super Toy Horse! It may look like a hand-painted wooden toy straight from Santa Claws’ workshop, but thanks to Dr. Dogna and the Lab Labs, it’s fully alive, kicking, and ready to gallop its way to the top of the food chain. And as with all event breeds, it’s a permanent addition, so you can unlock it at your own pace, even after the CRISPRmas festivities conclude.

• Candy Cane Glasses | Collect Candy Canes (1337)
  
• 1500 XP | Smash Snowmen (15)
  
• Oversized Knitted Sweater | Get Melee Kills (3)
  
• 750 Carl Coins | Dance at the Penguin Palace Stage
  
• Cinnamon Sticks | Get a Kill at Penguin Palace

• Super Toy Horse (Available at level 60)

Enter code CRISPRMAS in the main menu to redeem Santa Claws’ outfit and get into the spirit of giving! Just don’t ask where we got it. This one’s on him.

• Santa Hat
  
• Santa Outfit
  
• Santa Beard

Quick reminder if you’ve been thinking about grabbing one: our Super Animal Royale x Youtooz vinyl figure pre-orders are open until January 9th!

Pre-order here: https://youtooz.com/collections/super-animal-royale

As a bonus, they both include in-game cosmetics:

• Dr. Dogna includes a code for the new Mini Tiger With Wire pet
  
• Zombie Joe Monitor Buddiez 2-pack includes two in-game Zombie Joe hats

We hope you all love them as much as we do, and find really creative places to stick your Monitor Buddiez. Send us pics on our socials or Discord if you do!


We also rolled out a number of bug fixes this week. Additional fixes are still on the way for Nintendo Switch, so thanks for your patience. And thanks as well for all your reports! They’ve been a huge help in tracking down some of the issues that were harder to spot until servers were live and busy.

• Updated dialogue translations and fixed several cases where the dialogue bubble would glitch out due to formatting.
  
• Quests that end with a cutscene will now play the video even if the player cancels out of the dialogue early before getting to it.
  
• Reduced cases of “Matchmaking request timed out” errors.
  
• Players can now use the matchmake accept hotkey while fishing and during item show-off (accepting is no longer blocked).
  
• Fixed the BananOS character animation playing while fishing.
  
• Fixed a bug where the matchmaking queue wouldn’t reset for other party members if the party leader disconnected.
  
• Hit animation now plays for victims of the tundra monster.
  
• Fixed tracked quest UI not updating progress.
  
• Fixed Bug Spray melee missing a swing sound.
  
• Fixed gems appearing in the Welcome Center after using the photo booth.
  
• Fixed the gem reveal emote not showing gems in transparent photo booth photos.
  
• Controller users with (A) bound to 'Use / Pickup' no longer have NPC dialogue and responses accidentally skip.
  
• Fixed binding (A) on controller glitching out in settings.
  
• Fixed one of the mole NPC icons being incorrect.
  
• Fixed the Supercharge Fox icon.
  
• Fixed Fish Frenzy on the map sometimes appearing blank.
  
• Fixed a missing translation on the default controls popup.
  
• News entries now only show the external link icon when they open in your browser rather than in-game.

If you want to see all the huge new features included in the Super Animal World expansion that launched earlier this month, including Week 1 of CRISPRmas challenges and rewards, check out the full Steam patch notes here:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/622187705533466306

Week 2 of CRISPRmas can be found here:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/648085384362722669

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Before we sign off for the holidays, we wanted to express one more extra-big thank you to all of you. Super Animal World is the single biggest project we’ve ever attempted, and these past few weeks have been a whirlwind, so it’s meant a lot to see so many of you showing up with your friends to play and enjoy it.

We’re going to take some much-needed time to rest and recharge, and then come back ready to keep polishing, improving, and building on this new foundation for the game. We’re also really looking forward to getting back into a steady rhythm of quarterly major updates so we can move faster and keep expanding SAW in meaningful ways.

Once we’re back and have had a chance to digest all your feedback, we’ll share a clearer look at what we’re focusing on next, along with a few of our biggest takeaways from launch.

Until then, we hope you all enjoy the holidays and have fun on the island, whether questing, exploring, or battling. Merry CRISPRmas and Happy New Year, Super Animals!

Super Animal World celebrated its grand opening last week, and we can’t thank you enough for making it such a special launch. It’s been awesome seeing everyone step into SAW for the first time, and we’re excited to keep iterating and building on it with you.

In less than a week, you’ve already chatted with NPCs over 10 million times, completed over 2 million quests, and even kept us trending on SteamDB right up until The Game Awards. Seriously, thank you. If you think any of your favorite content creators might like Super Animal World, it would mean a lot if you told them about it to help keep the momentum going!

If you missed the full Super Animal World patch notes (including CRISPRmas week 1), you can catch up on them here:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/622187705533466306

Meanwhile, the team’s been busy fixing bugs and keeping servers stable (and occasionally popping in-game to say hi), so this update comes with a big batch of fixes alongside this week’s CRISPRmas goodies.


Santa Claws is still in town (find him on the left side of the Welcome Center) and CRISPRmas is getting closer! Week 2 brings a new set of event challenges and rewards, plus a brand new Super Animal breed.

If the climb to the top of the food chain was a literal climb, the Super Mountain Goat would have everyone beat. You can find it in the Research Lab as a permanent new addition!

• CRISPRmas Bauble Umbrella | Collect Candy Canes (1200)
  
• 1500 XP | Skate on ice (500 meters)
  
• Coal Gravestone | Deal damage with grenades (250)
  
• 750 Carl Coins | Eat Speed Mushrooms (20)
  
• Twinkle CRISPRmas Sweater | Break snow-covered crates (15)

• Super Mountain Goat (Available at level 50)

In case you missed them during launch week, Ms. Macawsome and her many clones have been hard at work stocking new releases in the SAW Shop!

Thank you to everyone who has supported the game with DLC or cosmetic purchases. Your support is what lets our small team keep building and updating the game year after year.

To check out the new items, talk to Ms. Macawsome (or Carl) at any of her locations around the island, or pull up the shop in BananOS. The items are available now in a featured row, and will enter regular rotation when their time’s up:

• Crying emote
  
• Neck Mittens
  
• Snowman Hat
  
• Sushi Gravestone
  
• Hazmat Suit
  
• Vintage Bug Spray Melee

Ms. Macawsome has also managed to put together the sweet and festive Candy Cane Bundle for your weapons! Guaranteed to have been licked by Carl no more than three times.

Here’s what the bundle includes:

• Candy Cane Bow & Sparrow
  
• Candy Cane M16
  
• Candy Cane Silenced Pistol
  
• Dogna’s Candy Cane Dartgun

Also, since the universe wanted mimes, the Mime Bundle has returned to the shop this week!


There’s a Twitch Drops campaign live right now! Earn two free cosmetics, the RGB Dress and Oversized RGB Hoodie, by linking your Super Animal and Twitch accounts on the SAR Drops website[drops.animalroyale.com] and watching Drops-enabled SAR streamers on Twitch[www.twitch.tv].

The campaign ends on Friday, January 2nd, so be sure to tune in!


Thank you to everyone who submitted bug reports! We’ve rolled out some fixes to squash them (but don’t worry, we left the catchable bugs in).

The following fixes and changes are live on Steam, Xbox and PlayStation, and fixes are on the way for Nintendo Switch as well.

• Fixed skunk mushroom gas not appearing on “low” VFX quality.
  
• Fixed a soft crash issue in shops with many categories in one section (for instance at Victory Island where there are exclusive items).
  
• Fixed an infinite leveling visual bug.
  
• Fixed a variety of crashes.

• Chat bubbles are now layered above player names.
  
• Fish & bug catching popup is now a bit wider.
  
• Updated the map image with Murre Woods changes.
  
• Fixed being able to push through blocked areas by talking to NPCs.
  
• Removed a SAW Tickets and Carl Coins label in the Royale that was displaying “0”.
  
• Shops can now be properly navigated with a controller when at high resolutions (such as 4K).
  
• Fixed the shop screen showing Victory Island items with a timer.
  
• Fixed a rare case where controller users couldn't use the shoulder buttons while in a MTN Station or access BananOS Social UI.
  
• Fixed the Animal Pass tier purchase screen choosing an incorrect tier after using the (+) and (-) buttons to change it.
  
• Fixed "Join Social Hub" being broken if the party was previously hamsterball racing.
  
• All reward popups hide the equip button during the tutorial to prevent overriding animal presets.
  
• The proper error message will now be displayed when accepting a friend invite while offline.
  
• Fixed “Aim” not referencing a hotkey in NPC dialogue.
  
• Adjusted audio mixing so emote volume is reduced while near the jukebox.
  
• Added wider NPC dialogue bubble limits for German and Russian to prevent words from being occasionally clipped.
  
• Fixed the player level gem displaying incorrectly on the BananOS profile.
  
• Fixed the chat hotkey working in the Photo Booth and while the UI is hidden.
  
• You can no longer enter the Photo Booth while the UI is hidden.
  
• Switched to TCP protocol for SAR friends and cross-play lobbies (should be no noticeable change).
  
• Fixed Japanese subtitles on the opening cutscene.
  
• Updated translations for story dialogue and UI.

• We rolled out a server-side patch the day after release so Xbox and PlayStation could properly complete the Photo Booth quests.
  
• Upcoming Switch fix: memory use improvements to help reduce crashing.
  
• Upcoming Switch fix: added a missing icon for the button to exit a hamsterball race.

Additionally, some of the early matchmaking issues should now be resolved, including the “Could not reserve player slot” issue.

If you want to see the full list of huge new features that arrived in the expansion, including Week 1 of CRISPRmas challenges and rewards, check out the full Steam patch notes here.

Don’t forget to knock out your CRISPRmas challenges while you’re exploring the island during matches! Keep up to date on what’s happening in Super Animal World and what’s coming for the final week of CRISPRmas by subscribing to our newsletter[animalroyale.com] and following us on:

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Have a happy holiday season, and we ho-ho-hope to see you on the island, Super Animals!

It’s finally here: Super Animal World, the massive free expansion to Super Animal Royale that turns the time between matches into a living world!

This has been the largest and most ambitious project our small team has taken on since SAR first launched in Early Access. After more than two years of work building an entirely new foundation for the game, we couldn’t be more excited to get it into your paws!

So what does Super Animal World include, and what comes next for SAR as a whole? Let’s start with what Super Animal World actually is.


Super Animal World is a reimagining of Super Animal Royale that turns the island into a relaxing space to make friends and enjoy cozy activities, all while you're queuing up to fight your new friends to the death.

We call this new loop the Circle of Super Life. You explore the new Social Hub, chat with characters, accept quests, and then matchmake straight into Super Animal Royale or our other competitive modes. When you die (or do the winner dance), you respawn back in the Hub to regroup, claim rewards, and head out again for your next battle.

The Social Hub was inspired by how wholesome and friendly this community has been over the years, and we wanted to create a larger space to support that. We’ve designed Super Animal World to make life between matches feel just as engaging as the battles themselves, with activities like fishing, bug catching, hamsterball racing, and more. In the sections below, we’ll walk through those new activities as well as BananOS, the new quest system, and everything else packed into the expansion.


To celebrate the launch of Super Animal World, a whole trio of new Super Animal species has arrived in the Research Lab: Super Hamsters, Super Emus, and Super Chinchillas, each with their own set of breeds to unlock.

Super Hamsters can finally claim their hamsterballs, Super Emus get to join the royale as full combatants instead of just noble steeds, and Super Chinchillas are here by popular demand, ready for their chance to scurry to the top of the food chain.

• Super Hamster
  
• Super Blonde Hamster
  
• Super White Hamster
  
• Super Red Hamster

• Super Emu
  
• Super Chonk Emu
  
• Super Speedy Emu
  
• Super Battle Emu

• Super Chinchilla
  
• Super White Chinchilla
  
• Super Black Chinchilla

To celebrate Super Animal World’s release, Ms. Macawsome’s got a new Animal Pass for you: The Grand Opening Pass! This one’s all about the newest activities on the island, so there’s bound to be something for everyone (as long as you like fishing, bug catching, or racing hamsterballs).

We’re also really excited to debut the new Mini Emu pet in this pass! It may be too short to ride, but it makes emus the first species to exist as a complete set of Giant Animal, Super Animal, and Mini Animal.

• During this season, the Grand Opening Pass is available for a discounted price of 550 SAW Tickets.
  
• As always, Animal Passes never expire, so you can continue working on passes you own from previous seasons on your second track, or purchase previous ones from The Archive for 750 SAW Tickets.

Feeling daring? The Grand Opening Starter Pack features a star-studded set of flashy daredevil cosmetics and the Super Stuntman Hamster! It’s the perfect look to rock while outspeeding the competition out on the raceways, just watch out for flights of stairs. Or don’t.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4115440/Super_Animal_World_Grand_Opening_Starter_Pack/

The Grand Opening Starter Pack includes:

• Stuntman Aviators
  
• Stuntman Outfit
  
• Super Stuntman Hamster
  
• 600 SAW Tickets (enough to pick up the new Animal Pass or put toward items in the SAW Shop!)

Buying this Starter Pack will also unlock the base Super Hamster early, as a small bonus. This is the first time we’ve offered a non-starter Super Animal in a Starter Pack and we’d love to hear what you think!


CRISPRmas is here! Candy canes have once again been scattered across the island to collect, and the first week’s challenges and rewards are ready to be unwrapped.

Be sure to head on over to the SAW Welcome Center in the Social Hub and have a chat with Santa Claws himself, in the fur! He’ll be around throughout the entire event, to meet all the nice (or naughty) Super Animals on the island.

Keep an eye out for candy canes during your matches. Eating them grants a small heal and helps you progress some of your weekly challenges. Smashing snowmen (snow animals?) around Thomas’s Tundra will score you even more candy canes, and you’ll also earn them just for completing matches!

• Red Elf Hat | Collect Candy Canes (1000)
  
• 1500 XP | Smash Snowmen (5)
  
• Red Elf Outfit | Land on Ice
  
• 750 Carl Coins | Chop Snow Grass (125)
  
• Gingerbread Sword | Get Kills (12)

• Super Sock Monkey (Available at Level 20)

Week 2 and 3 CRISPRmas challenges and Super Animal breeds arrive on Tuesday, December 16th and Tuesday, December 23rd.


Looking for an itinerary of things to do in Super Animal World? Here are some of the new activities you’ll unlock in the Social Hub as you progress along the Main Quest.

Believe it or not, there are fish out there that don’t stand on two legs! Once you get a fishing rod, you can catch some of these so-called “water fish” in just about any body of, well, water. You can catch different fish depending on where you cast your line, so to complete the Museum of Super Natural History collection you’ll need to angle all around the island.

Whether they’re skittering or buzzing or fluttering about, dozens of bug varieties call the island home, too! With a bug net, you can catch them to add to the museum’s collection (and never snack on, as tempting as it might be for some Super Animals). Just like fish, different bugs can be caught in different locales, so be sure to search every nook and cranny on the island.

Dash, drift, and dodge your way through the island’s six hamsterball racing tracks! BananOS augmented reality turns stretches of the island’s existing landscape into exhilarating raceways to challenge your friends on, complete with dash pads, items to give yourself an edge, and all the spherical mayhem you could want.


The island’s never felt more alive, thanks to the massive new Quest System that’s been added, with tons of characters to chat with including familiar faces from our SAR Tonight animated series and plenty of debuting critters too! Every corner of the island has friendly (or not-so-friendly) faces to meet, many of whom will give you quests and rewards every day you return. Be sure to say hello to any and all Super Animals you meet out there while exploring. You never know who might need your help, or what you might get in return if you lend a hand. Or… paw. Or wing, or fin!

All in all, there are 350+ quests to complete and over 100 characters to chat with (200+ when including ambient NPCs, who all have unique dialogue). There’s a full novel’s worth of story here, with over 140,000 words of dialogue in total. For context, that’s roughly 1.5x longer than The Hobbit and about 4.7x longer than Animal Farm. It was a huge undertaking to add this many questlines to the game, and it’ll be an undertaking in its own right if you want to experience them all, so expect it to take multiple days if you’re dedicated enough to complete every quest.

Please be respectful of spoilers for everyone! There’s a lot of story reveals and new lore tidbits in this novel-length addition to the game, so if you’d like to discuss these things with others, we encourage you to check out our #lore-discussion channel in our Discord server[discord.gg].

We’re super excited to see everyone’s reactions to these additions! Super Animal World is a vibrant place with all sorts of colorful and often chaotic critters, and we hope getting to talk with them and help them out will be a fun way to enjoy the Social Hub and challenge yourselves.


Seven years after its original Early Access release, Super Animal Royale has received a nearly top-to-bottom UI overhaul. At the heart of that overhaul is BananOS, a new augmented reality operating system that every Super Animal now runs as a brain-to-eye interface (...whether they opted into the install or not).

The big question we asked ourselves that led to BananOS and the new Social Hub was: what if instead of returning to a menu between matches, you can access everything you need while staying in-world the whole time?

BananOS overlays an AR interface onto every Super Animal’s vision so they can access apps, notifications, and matchmaking from anywhere in the Social Hub. Other systems that used to live in menus have also been brought in-world to physical locations, like MTN Stations where you can access customization and the Research Lab, and Photo Booths for snapping commemorative pics while you explore the island.

You can also use BananOS to queue up for any game mode straight from the Social Hub, and keep fishing, questing, or socializing while you wait for matchmaking.

Alongside Super Animal Royale, S.A.W. vs Rebellion and The Bwoking Dead are now permanently available to queue for instead of rotating weekly. Now that waiting for your next match is a whole game itself, we felt it was time to make these additional modes permanent, and we plan to keep evolving them and adding new competitive modes you can access right from the Hub.

For the first time, BananOS also introduces an in-game cross-platform friends list. You can add players you meet while you play, no matter what system they’re on, and that list lives alongside your Steam or console friends while staying shared across all platforms. Grouping up from BananOS’s Social tab is simple too, especially now that console players can use text chat in-game.

This is just the first version of BananOS and we already have new features planned, so we’d love to hear your feedback as you use it and see where you’d like it to go next. The best way to learn BananOS is to get your paws on it, so give it a try while you’re exploring the island.


We’ve also implemented tons of other changes that aren’t directly tied to the Social Hub itself. There’s more than two years worth of additions and quality of life improvements in this expansion, too many to list entirely here, but here are a few highlights:


By popular request, Duos and Squads modes in Super Animal Royale now feature Respawn Tanks where you can revive fallen teammates, as long as you pick up their respawn vials first. You can finally bring a dead teammate back into the fight, or at least a new clone of them. Rejoice!


The island’s weather patterns have gotten a bit superer! Stormy weather can occur at random, with new visual and audio effects to match. Be careful heading to the Tundra during these storms, since it also means there’s a blizzard in the snowy northern sections of the map.


There’s a lot more packed into this expansion so we can’t cover every single detail, but here are some final highlights from the changelist before this post itself becomes novel-length:

Competitive Modes

• Emus can peck ammo, juice, tape, and throwables to loot them for their rider, making looting on the go much smoother.
  
• Carl Coins rewarded per minute survived in Super Animal Royale have been increased from 5 to 7.2.
  
• Explosive barrels have a new knock down animation for both competitive modes and Social Hub. In competitive modes this acts as a stun, even if the player has only lost part of their health.
  
• The first Skunk Gas circle now takes longer to close, giving you more time for early-game looting and reducing the chance of being rushed or caught by the first circle.
  
• Skunk Gas visuals have been adjusted so it’s easier to see the environment while you’re inside the gas.
  
• A confirmation sound now plays when armor taping finishes successfully.
  
• Fixed several spots where throwables would bounce incorrectly or through walls (such as around the Giant Emu pen and small research lab buildings).
  
• Existing NPCs in the royale are now client-side, so each player can complete related milestones if they find them in a match.
  
• Zombie Joe bots and The Bwoking Dead have seen several improvements: bot melee range and attack speed have been slightly reduced, bot melee now breaks crates and other objects, the last survivor in Bwoking Dead now sees kill notifications correctly, and a rare issue where the on-screen kill notification would show 0 kills has been fixed.
  
• Reworked the SvR “Top Players” showcase to consider multiple stats for players (while still only picking someone once), fixing cases where someone qualified for a stat but wouldn’t get featured.
  
• Private match hosts have a suite of new tools, including commands to teleport (/tele), toggle the kill feed (/killfeed), spawn Lucky Cat Mines (/mine), spawn Skunk Bombs (/skunk), and enable or disable Respawn Tanks (/tanks).
  
• Added keybind for private match admin leaderboard.

World & Social Hub

• New Points of Interest: Hamsterball Stadium, Victory Island, and new details around the island including waterways and waterfalls. (Note: Victory Island is only accessible when exploring the Social Hub, and getting there will be up to you!)
  
• Be sure to check out the exclusive shops at Victory Island and Mini Ranch for special items only found there!
  
• SMoMA’s art collection has been updated with new works from the latest fanart contest[artcontest.animalroyale.com].
  
• New cinematics to see and photos to collect through the main questlines.
  
• Tons of new music, including ambient location-sensitive tracks and new music when joining a lobby for a Super Animal Royale match.
  
• New trails and boost visual effects for hamsterballs to make races feel even more satisfying.
  
• Rebel Caches can now also be found around the Social Hub, awarding Carl Coins and with a rare chance to drop a cosmetic from the level-up item pool. An old bug in BR where they could not be opened after eating a mushroom or coconut has also been fixed.
  
• Blue mushrooms have new run animation while you’re boosted. Their speed cap has been adjusted to +24s and they can be found and used in both competitive modes and Social Hub.
  
• Giant Giant Clams can be opened in the Social Hub for a chance at pearls of different colors/rarities, which can be sold for Carl Coins and used in certain quests.
  
• Carl Coins have a small chance to drop when cutting grass or breaking crates in the Social Hub.
  
• Earporium has been renovated to become the new flagship SAW Shop location and MTN Station at the Welcome Center. Other areas around the island have also been renovated to make way for MTN Stations.
  
• Added a squishable fly to the SAW side starting screen in SvR.

Systems & Quality of Life

• You can now undo DNA Magnet choices at the MTN Station Research Lab if you change your mind about which Super Animal to target.
  
• The game's HUD and notifications have been updated, including a larger minimap, improved text styling, and notifications moving to the right side of the screen.
  
• Chat now supports Direct Messages. You can send DMs to a friend from their profile and use “/r” in the chat window to quickly reply to the last direct message you received.
  
• All consoles now support text chat (via the Select button).
  
• New emote wheel and quick chat design.
  
• New dialogue/chat font for improved legibility and character support.
  
• A Master Volume setting has been added to control all game audio at once, and more music (like SMoMA and Aquarium ambience) now respects the Music Volume slider.
  
• Thanks to the new modular settings menu design, new settings have been added, including VFX quality and the ability to hide your armor locally. Existing options like “Toggle Recoil Indicators” and the old “/hidenames” chat command have also been moved into the settings menu. We plan to add more highly requested settings in the future so let us know what you want to see!
  
• Various load-time optimizations have been made, including preloading more animations and speeding up map loading when joining servers.
  
• Fixed a bug where ping-based hamsterball extrapolation of other players was not working correctly, improving how accurate the position of other players’ hamsterballs will look on your screen.
  
• Social hubs restart daily at 10am Pacific Time, with matchmaking reopening shortly after. Server downtime will be 1-2min or less.
  
• Weekly Challenges now refresh on Tuesdays at 10 am Pacific instead of Mondays to sync everything up to the same time.

A new Twitch Drops campaign is live from now until Friday, January 2nd! To start earning rewards, link your Super Animal and Twitch accounts on the SAR Drops website[drops.animalroyale.com], and watch Drops-enabled SAR streamers on Twitch[www.twitch.tv].

Here’s what you can earn by participating:

• RGB Dress
  
• RGB Oversized Hoodie

Super Animal World is meant to give Super Animal Royale a whole new foundation to build on for years to come, and now that the pieces are in place, we can't wait to get back to regular Major Updates that continue building on it.

So what happens after launch? Here are a few of the things we’ll be focusing on that you can expect to hear more about in the new year:

• We’ll be returning to seasonal Major Updates, released roughly every quarter, with smaller event updates in between. Those larger updates will keep adding new content, building on the seeds we’ve planted with this expansion, smoothing out rough edges and fixing bugs.
  
• For upcoming Major Updates, we’re already looking at quality of life improvements like Inventory Search for the Customize screen, and upgrades to the new BananOS cross-platform friends list.
  
• You’ll probably also notice a museum currently being built by the hard-working Super Construction Beavers on the northeast side of Murre Woods. Your hard work for the Museum of Super Natural History directly supports filling its halls with an impressive collection when it opens its doors.
  
• Beyond the Social Hub, we plan to continue updating the game’s core modes (like The Bwoking Dead) and will return to exploring new modes to add in 2026.
  
• There is a lot more planned than we can list here, so if we haven't mentioned your most desired feature yet, please keep letting us know what you would like to see next in Discord, on our socials below, or here on Steam.

Before all this, the team will be taking a very hard-earned break to relax and recover over the holidays. We've put a ton of effort and love into Super Animal World and it has been a big undertaking, but we cannot wait to see how you enjoy this new way of playing and what feedback you'll share to help us make it even better.

As always, if you want to know what’s next for Super Animal World and the game as a whole, please subscribe to our ​​newsletter[animalroyale.com] and follow us on:

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Once again, thank you so much for playing and supporting Super Animal Royale and our small indie team. We hope you enjoy Super Animal World, exploring everything this expansion adds and everything you bring to it when you step into the Social Hub. See you on the island, Super Animals!

It’s official: we’re finally opening the doors to Super Animal World on Tuesday, December 9th!

This has been the largest and most ambitious project our small team has ever taken on, and we couldn’t be more proud of how it’s turned out. Super Animal World sets a whole new foundation for us to build on for years to come, and we can’t wait to get it into your paws. All your progress carries over into the expansion, which will arrive as a free patch to Super Animal Royale.

Today’s two-part trailer opens with a musical number introducing some of our new characters and activities, and then shifts into an extended gameplay sequence, offering the largest look yet at Super Animal World. We’ll share more in the leadup to launch (and there are surprises sprinkled throughout the trailer), but here are a few highlights:

The Social Hub was inspired by seeing how social so many of you are in pre-game lobbies. It’s a living, breathing space to meet, connect, and explore between rounds of fighting to the death.

You can spend as much time as you like in the new, cozier space, hanging out with friends, catching bugs and fish, racing in hamsterballs, meeting NPC characters, and embarking on quests to uncover the island’s twisted backstory. You’ll matchmake into any of the game’s modes straight from the Social Hub, play your match, and then return to the Social Hub to claim rewards and continue your quests: completing the Circle of Super Life.

A lot of these activities are best experienced first-hand, so we’ll save some surprises for release, but at launch, we’ll have 100 total bugs and fish to catch and six hamsterball tracks to race on. We’re also adding long-requested social features, like a cross-platform friends list so you can party up wherever your friends play.

The expansion includes a large novel’s worth of storytelling (140,000+ words!), in which you’ll uncover the history of the island. For context, that’s 1.5x longer than The Hobbit, and 4.7x longer than Animal Farm (which may or may not have been an inspiration for the events that unfold at Super Animal Farm…).

There are over 100 NPCs to meet and interact with, some familiar and many brand-new. You’ll experience their stories through more than 350 quests, and they'll reward you with XP, Carl Coins, and, now and then, exclusive cosmetic items. Ruben and our translators have been working super hard on all of this, and we can’t wait for you to dive in and explore the island’s mysteries!

We’ve redesigned and rebuilt the game’s UI top-to-bottom, so that everything is accessible in-world. We’ll have more to share on this soon, but it was a massive undertaking that makes everyday play smoother and more immersive. This also includes a new Settings menu with community-requested features like hiding armor and muting hit sounds in the lobby / Social Hub.

Super Eagle-eyed players will also spot the new Super Hamster as well as the new Hamsterball Stadium location. No more hamsterballs without Super Hamsters!

This is just a sampling of the headline additions that we’ve been working on for nearly 3 years, and we’ll have more to share over the next month.

We’re also finally bringing Super Animal Royale to Nintendo Switch and PlayStation in Japan and across Asia for the first time. It’s a huge milestone for us and we’re super excited for how it’ll expand the global player base even further.

We hope you enjoy the trailer and are as excited for Super Animal World’s release as we are. It would mean the super world to us if you could help us spread the word so we have the biggest possible opening day in December!

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See you on opening day, Super Animals!

Week 3 of Howloween has arrived, and the Super Vampire Deer is here to raise the stakes!

Now that all of the Howloween event challenges have been unlocked, you can complete quests from all three weeks at any time from now through Monday, November 3rd to earn the rewards. Let’s see what treats (and tricks) are in store for this week:

• Vampire Dress | Collect Candy Corn (1337)
  
• 2000 XP | Smash Jack-O’-Lanterns (25)
  
• Howloween Tree Gravestone | Dance at the Graveyard in Pete’s Swamp
  
• 750 Carl Coins | Break Explosive Barrels (3)
  
• Vampire Chalice melee | Deal Melee Damage (200)

• Super Vampire Deer (Available in the Research Lab at level 10)

As a reminder, all Super Animal breeds unlocked as part of events are permanent additions to the Research Lab! Make sure to take breaks between all that candy corn hunting and DNA collecting, Super Animals.


¡Feliz Día de los Muertos! Code DAYOFTHEDEAD is back once again, which you can redeem in the main menu for four festive cosmetics, two of which we just added last year! The code will last until the Howloween event ends.

Here’s what the code includes:

• White Mariachi Hat
  
• Mariachi Dress
  
• Mariachi Hat
  
• Mariachi Outfit

In case you missed it, there’s a hootennanny goin’ on down yonder at Twitch: the Pink Cowfolk Twitch Drops campaign is on until Howloween ends!

Here’s what you can wrangle during the campaign:

• Pink Cowgirl Outfit
  
• Pink Cowboy Outfit
  
• Pink Boot

The set was inspired by the Pink Cowboy Hat from the Super Edition! To start earning Twitch Drops, you’ll need to link your Super Animal and Twitch accounts using the SAR Drops website[drops.animalroyale.com] (if you haven’t already). Then just watch any Drops-enabled stream in the Super Animal Royale category on Twitch[www.twitch.tv] to start earning the bundle’s cosmetics!

To see the Pink Cowfolk Bundle in action, check out this short video we put together to show it off: https://youtube.com/shorts/Oh3Oj7g2ZiY

There’s a TikTok version too, which is a remix! You can watch it here: https://www.tiktok.com/@pixilestudios/video/7562237821486959880


Content Creator Umbracuticus is putting on their first-ever AS server SAR Weeklies community event, and is collaborating with Super Content Creator Johnney Kim to make it happen on Saturday, October 25th!

AS server users can join this 7-round solos event by signing up in the organizers’ Discord server, which you can join here: https://discord.gg/psVrUGeEdJ

The event will be streamed on Umbra’s Twitch channel[www.twitch.tv] so be sure to tune in to watch the event live.

We’ll be sharing news about Super Animal World’s development progress soon, so if you don’t want to miss it, be sure to subscribe to our ​​newsletter[animalroyale.com] and follow us on:

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See you on the island, Super Animals!

The second week of the Howloween event is here alongside the Super Zombie Possum, a malevolent marsupial back from the beyond (or genetically made to appear that way, at least)!

A new horde of ghoulish challenges have arrived, with plenty of treats to earn if you’re brave enough to lay them to rest:

• Howloween Party Hat | Collect Candy Corn (1200)
  
• 1500 XP | Ride zip-lines with Ninja Booties (15)
  
• Bat Glasses | Get Bwoking Launcher kills (3)
  
• 750 Carl Coins | Dance with Crabs at the Health Juice Factory
  
• Bat Tie | Get a kill within 10s of using a zip-line

• Super Zombie Possum (Available in the Research Lab at level 50)

Code HOWLOWEEN is back! You can redeem it in the main menu for the Howl Mask cosmetic anytime from now until the event ends on Monday, November 3rd.

Not all Howloween costumes have to be scary! Earn all three new Pink Cowfolk items by tuning into Drops-enabled streams on Twitch from this Friday, October 17th until the end of the Howloween event.

You can earn the following items during this Twitch Drops campaign:

• Pink Cowgirl Outfit
  
• Pink Cowboy Outfit
  
• Pink Boot melee

To start earning Twitch Drops, you’ll need to link your Super Animal and Twitch accounts using the SAR Drops website[drops.animalroyale.com] (if you haven’t already).

Then, just watch any Drops-enabled stream in the Super Animal Royale category on Twitch! We designed this bundle to pair nicely with the Pink Cowboy Hat from the Super Edition. Let us know what you think and if there’s any other cosmetics we should return to and create a full set for. :)

To keep up to date on everything going on with the event and Super Animal World development, subscribe to our ​​newsletter[animalroyale.com] and follow us on:

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See you on the island, Super Animals!

The island is ready for another round of frights and delights: Howloween is here! Prepare yourself for three weeks of event challenges and rewards, along with a terrifying new invention available for a limited time: the Bwoking Launcher.

We’ve also got an exciting new Super Animal World progress update to share below. But first, let’s jump into everything arriving with this year’s Howloween!


Alive? Dead? Undead? The Lab Labs are well and truly stumped about this quantum kitty. The Super Schrodinger’s Cat is now available in the Research Lab, and you can unlock it to determine its state for yourself. Thanks to Super Artist NeKosan for suggesting this breed!

Keep an eye out for Candy Corn scattered around the island, Super Trick-or-Treaters. It restores a small bit of health when eaten, and while you explore you’ll also find festive Jack-O-Lanterns to smash for useful loot.

• Mad Scientist Goggles | Collect Candy Corn (1000)
  
• 1500 XP | Smash Jack-o’-Lanterns (0/15)
  
• Mad Scientist Outfit | Get Kills (12)
  
• 750 Carl Coins | Replenish Health from Campfires (150)
  
• Howloween Umbrella | Land at the Graveyard in Pete’s Swamp

• Super Schrodinger’s Cat (Available in the Research Lab at level 1)

• Fixed a cosmetic glitch where backpacks weren’t showing up appropriately on some cosmetics.
  
• Fixed a cosmetic glitch where the Animal Body would show through the Goth Skirt in some emotes.
  
• Moved Messenger Bag and Gourd Bag to a new slot that is above others to fix clashing with certain cosmetics like the floatie.
  
• Triple Barrel Blunderbuss blast-back no longer slows over shallow water (for any times we bring it back in the future).

This Howloween, a wicked (and wicked fun) new invention has been released from Sledison’s workshop to strike fear into The Bwoking Dead survivors everywhere: meet the Bwoking Launcher!

This explosive limited-time weapon fires Zombie Joe bwoklets that burst on impact, and damage everything near the point of contact. Skilled sharpshooters will also learn they explode after a set time in the air, letting you hit opponents on the move or around obstacles with practice. You can find the Bwoking Launcher throughout the Howloween event in Uncommon (green) and Rare (blue) rarities.

Dev Note
Following the success of the Triple Barrel Blunderbuss this summer, the Bwoking Launcher is another limited-time weapon designed to mix up looting and gameplay. With most core weapon roles already filled, these temporary additions let us prototype fun new mechanics without creating overlap or bloating the loot pool. Our goal is that, as we introduce more of them, we’ll be able to rotate these weapons regularly to keep the game feeling fresh and exciting.

We’ll be keeping a close eye on how the Bwoking Launcher performs, so let us know what you think and what you'd love to see next in the Discord server[discord.gg] or here on Steam!


Ms. Macawsome’s stocked the shop with six spooky standouts!

• Devil Wings
  
• Spiked Collar
  
• Spooky JAG-7
  
• Ghost Umbrella
  
• Brown Plaid Scarf
  
• Acorn Hat

The Devil Wings, Spiked Collar, Spooky Jay-7, and Ghost Umbrella will haunt the shop for the first 72 hours once the update drops. The Brown Plaid Scarf and Acorn Hat will arrive this Friday for 48 hours. Thank you to Super Artist SAILOR for suggesting the Acorn Hat!

Note: Devil Wings and Spiked Collar both use the neck accessory slot. Enjoy!

You’ll also find two new bundles available during Week 1:

The Autumn Bundle is here because while Howloween might be temporary, cozy fall vibes are always in style:

• Autumn Hat
  
• Autumn Glasses
  
• Autumn Dress

Thank you to community member Fizzy for suggesting this bundle in the Discord server!

Want a taste of a poison paradise? These weapons may not deal extra toxic damage, but you gotta admit they kick some serious arsenic. Introducing the Toxic Set:

• Toxic Superite Laser
  
• Toxic SMG
  
• Toxic Sniper
  
• Toxic Thomas Gun

The Toxic Set also marks our second weapon-skin bundle. Let us know what you’d like to see next!


Treats from Howloweens past have been given life anew in Carl's Cart:

• Howloween Bandana
  
• Bones Gravestone
  
• Spiderweb Sweater
  
• Bat Glasses
  
• Bat Tophat
  
• Black Cat Glasses
  
• Howloween Suspenders
  
• Haunted Hat
  
• Green Witch Dress

2024’s Howloween items have also been added to the event’s Super Legacy Item track:


It’s been a very big month for Super Animal World development. We’re excited to say that the story and quests content is now complete and locked, and localization has begun. Console porting is about halfway as well, so the final progress bar has officially started its march to the finish line.

It’s taken a huge team effort to get here, but we’re happy to say we’re still targeting the end of this year and we’re close to sharing a release date. This month we’re wrapping up final UI and friends features, putting the finishing touches on Hamsterball Racing and its debut tracks, and continuing to refine the expansion as a whole.

There’s plenty we want to keep adding after release, but we’re thrilled with the new foundation Super Animal World will set for the game, and we can’t wait for you to experience it.


Every month, we put out a call for questions on Pixile’s Twitter[x.com] and Bluesky[bsky.app] and answer them right here in the Mooseletter!

If you're curious for more, you can browse past Q&As:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/498330460301033839
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/498328557405077864
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/498325386812195997
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/498322850680145537
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/498320313411437016
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/498317142563750061
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/506195274633314529
Each one covers a wide range of questions, and you might just find something you've been wondering about too.

Make sure to follow us so you don’t miss the call next month, and as always, feel free to also share your feedback in the SAR Discord[discord.gg] or start a discussion right here on Steam. :)

From: Unflappedflea[bsky.app]
Has it been considered leaning into the horror implications of SAR more? Or is it difficult with age restrictions? Like, genetically modified animals with human qualities is kind of horrific. I can imagine some creations coming out of Dogna's lab that look straight from The Thing

Great question. Our goal with darker elements is typically not horror for its own sake (though we do have a bit of fun with that during Howloween). We use them in service of dark comedy and to explore moral and philosophical ideas through extremes and absurdism. That’s the tone Super Animal World aims for, even when things get a little shocking.

Age ratings do play an important role, and they shape how we present ideas so the game remains approachable. At the same time, we layer in subtle adult themes that older players can pick up on and appreciate while younger players enjoy the surface story and jokes, similar to how Pixar writes for multiple age groups. We have a lot of Millenials on our team, so you might notice a bit of that sensibility in what we find entertaining.

There are moments where we dial something back if it feels out of step with the game’s tone. It’s always a balancing act. There’s definitely room to explore darker themes in the future, and we think you’ll be pleased with some of the places the story goes in Super Animal World.

From: Fizero[bsky.app]
Do the glyphs in the pyramid actually say anything? Or are they more "cool symbols with some noticeable figures added"?🤔If they say anything do they follow a "modern" simplified interpretation, or a more traditional interpretation? (i.e. phonograms, logograms, and determinatives)

It’s not a full on novel with hidden symbols, so we’d probably place it closer to “cool symbols with some noticeable figures added” but we did some light research on how to write traditional hieroglyphs beforehand and there is actually a specific story being told with them. :)

From: Red[bsky.app]
Will the true night mode ever return?

For those who aren’t familiar with it, the original iteration of night mode restricted your line of sight to a cone in the direction you were aiming. We eventually reworked it to be purely atmospheric, since the limited vision meant players had to spin constantly to see around them and play competitively, and that wasn’t much fun in practice. We found that the mechanic works better in singleplayer games than it did in a PvP game.

It’s very unlikely we’ll bring it back in its original form, but it’s possible that kind of mechanic could return in a future mode if it fit the gameplay. Hide and seek? Search and destroy?

From: Angela[x.com]
In addition to finally knowing what relationship Howloween has with Howl (which I don't think is a valid question), I would like to know how the design for this occasion's temporary weapon was decided (not talking entirely about functionality but rather background and aesthetics)

The aesthetics for the Bwoking Launcher were definitely influenced by the time of year! We knew our second limited-time gun would debut during Howloween and figured it’d be the perfect opportunity to create something that leaned into the event’s theme, with the Bwoking Joes being a natural fit.

Functionally, we were inspired by how the Bwoking Joes explode in The Bwoking Dead. When deciding how to launch them, we wanted something that felt mechanically similar to the Sparrow Launcher with its proven bird-launching design, but with the explosiveness of BCG. The Bow & Sparrow, which sits below the Sparrow Launcher, actually behaves more like the BCG with its hold-to-shoot mechanic, so this gave us the perfect chance to riff on the Sparrow Launcher’s style while creating an explosive option that plays differently than the BCG.

And don’t worry, we haven’t forgotten about Howl and Howloween. We’d love to explore that connection more in the future (hopefully next year)!

From: Otto[bsky.app]
What country is the SAW island part of? (Probably a dumb question but why not lol)

It’s a private island in the Pacific Ocean, so no country has jurisdiction, but we’ll leave it at that for now to preserve some mystery.

From: Fizero[bsky.app]
If you drink too much health juice, does your pee turn green?

Yes. Thanks for the hard-hitting questions, Fiz.


We have a few updates for you on the Super Merch front this month too! First up, Cheryl will be out of office from October 11th to November 12th, 2025, so shipping will take a short break during that time.

Our final shipment before the break will go out this week on October 10th, 2025, at 12:00pm PST. Any orders placed after that will ship on our next drop-off date of November 18th, 2025.

For our friends in the U.S., we also want to share a quick note about shipping. Recent tariffs have affected costs for products manufactured in China and shipped from Canada, with some new duties ranging between 35-72%. For example, our tumblers are impacted by both the new China tariff and the new Canadian steel tariff (fingers crossed it doesn’t last too long). To keep pricing fair and consistent for everyone, we’ve had to pause U.S. shipping for now while we review options. We’re hopeful this will be a short-term situation, and we’ll keep you posted as soon as service resumes.

If you’d still like to place an order in the meantime, you can use a mail-forwarding service or Canadian proxy address. Please note that we’re unable to take responsibility for any additional fees, tariffs, or lost packages through these methods.

We truly appreciate your patience and understanding. We design and ship all these items ourselves and the team has a lot of fun new products in the works that we can’t wait to share with you once we’re back in action. Thank you for supporting Super Merch!


We have another round of incredible fanart from the community to share! Thanks to all of you who keep filling our feeds with so much creativity every month.

Art by Unflappedflea

Art by Glitch

Art by SpikyDemon

Art by CaramelCat

Art by Shiruba

Art by Torau - For Kaity from the Pixile team, who recently got married to Bananamilk. They met while playing SAR!

If you’re posting your fanart on social media, use the hashtag #superanimalroyale or tag us in it! You can also share fanart in our Discord server[discord.gg], where we have channels just for fan creations and art discussion.

For all the latest Super Animal World news, subscribe to our ​​newsletter[animalroyale.com] and follow us on:

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See you on the island, Super Animals! ːcockatiel_hypeː

- Michael, Logan, & the Community team

Big news, Super Animals: Howloween arrives next week on Tuesday, October 7th! This update brings new Super Animals and cosmetics like the Super Schrodinger’s Cat and Mad Scientist Outfit (shown above), plus a brand-new limited-time gun: the Bwoking Launcher, available for the duration of the event. We’ll share full details next week!

Huge thanks to community Super Artist and Super Content Creator wvbBB[twitch.tv] for the amazing teaser art above. We had a blast working with her on it!

We’ll also be folding our monthly Mooseletter into next week’s patch notes to share more about Super Animal World. Not to give away too much yet, but progress is looking great and we’re on track for our end-of-year target! We’ll share the release date once it’s fully locked.


We just released the Super Borzoi and Chips Tube melee, as seen on our TikTok[www.tiktok.com] and YouTube Shorts. Redeem code BORZOI in the main menu to get your free dog and chips in-game!


As a reminder, the Season 0-4 Starter Packs are available for purchase until Howloween begins next Tuesday, October 7th. If you can’t grab them right now or are worried about missing out, don’t worry! We’ll bring them back again in the future in some shape or form.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/59291/Super_Animal_Royale__Starter_Pack_Bundle_Seasons_04/

For all the latest Super Animal Royale & World news, subscribe to our ​​newsletter[animalroyale.com] and follow us on:

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See you on the island, Super Animals!

Hey Super Animals, we’re gearing up for the home stretch on Super Animal World’s development, and we’re excited to finally bring back something many of you have asked for: Past Season Starter Packs!

They’ll be available in two waves, giving both new and longtime players another chance to collect them as we head toward release later this year. We’ve also made big progress on the expansion this month, so we can’t wait to share what the team has been working on.

In this edition of the Mooseletter:

• Starter Packs Return
  
• Super Animal World Progress
  
• Pixile AMA
  
• Super Fanart Showcase

Over the next six weeks, past Starter Packs are making their return in two limited-time waves. We’ve gotten so many requests for this, and as we mentioned in July’s Mooseletter, we’ve been looking for the right way to do it.

Here’s the plan:

• Seasons 5–9 are available first, from today to Tuesday, September 16th
  
• Seasons 0–4 follow, from Tuesday, September 16th to Tuesday, October 7th
  
• Each pack costs $7.99 USD, or you can grab them in bundles

You can pick up the full wave 1 bundle or any of the individual Starter Packs here:

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/57887/Super_Animal_Royale__Starter_Pack_Bundle_Seasons_59/


You’ve been asking for Starter Packs to return for a long time, and we’ve wanted to find a way that felt fair. We’ve never been fans of FOMO practices that lock content away forever, which is why holiday event items cycle back each year, and past Animal Passes are always available in The Archive. Leaving Starter Packs in the vault would go against that philosophy.


Just like with Animal Passes, which go from 550 to 750 SAW Tickets once their season ends, we wanted there to be a small reward for supporters who purchase Starter Packs during their season. That's why we’ve priced reruns at $7.99 USD, while future Starter Packs will continue to debut at $4.99 USD during their season.

We’ve also been considering other ways to bring back past packs in the future, such as bundles in the SAW Shop, and we would love to hear what you think of that idea compared to this DLC rerun format.


When these waves wrap up, the packs will head back into the vault, but not for good. We want to establish a long-term way to bring them back more regularly, but we're still deciding what will work best. For now, our focus is on finishing the core features of Super Animal World!

Thank you so much for supporting us along the way, whether by picking up a Starter Pack or simply playing the game and sharing it with friends. It all helps sustain the game today and gives us the opportunity to grow even bigger through ambitious projects like Super Animal World.

Our last progress update was only a few short weeks ago, but the team has been working hard and made great strides this month! Let’s dive right into our latest very scientific progress bars:

The entire UI in Super Animal Royale is getting a facelift in Super Animal World, and this month we finished upgrading nearly every piece of it across the game. The project has been a massive undertaking, but we’re really proud of how it’s shaping up and excited to be shifting into polishing and fine-tuning the new designs.

On the content side, we’re wrapping up the conclusion of the main storyline this week and filling in the last side quests. Our new friend features are also up and running, which has been exciting to see in action as everything locks into place. We can’t wait to show you how it all works!

Next month we’ll be taking another big step by beginning localization as we head into the home stretch of production. Alongside localization, we’ll also be spending September testing and polishing all of the expansion’s new systems, making sure everything feels seamless when it launches.

Every month, we put out a call for questions on Pixile’s Twitter[x.com] and Bluesky[bsky.app] and answer them right here in the Mooseletter!

If you're curious for more, you can browse past Q&As:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/498328557405077864
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/498325386812195997
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/498322850680145537
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/498320313411437016
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/498317142563750061
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/506195274633314529

Each one covers a wide range of questions, and you might just find something you've been wondering about too.

Make sure to follow us so you don’t miss the call next month, and as always, feel free to also share your feedback in the SAR Discord[discord.gg] or start a discussion right here on Steam. :)

From: MooseDaFox45[x.com]
How was Animal Royale pitched? Like what were some of the inspirations to stand out from other battle royale games and why animals? Hope that makes sense

The project began when Clogg and I (Michael) were having a lot of fun playing H1Z1 Battle Royale and started wondering how well the genre could work from a top-down perspective. As fans of battle royales, we had plenty of opinions about what we liked and didn’t like, and we wanted to create our own take that streamlined the genre and made it more accessible without losing what made it so compelling. We’ve always loved designing multiplayer games that both hardcore and casual players can enjoy, so friends who don’t usually like the same games have something they can play together.

On the art side, I’ve always loved animals and colorful, minimalist aesthetics. A few years before SAR I actually prototyped a game about exploring a forest as a bear in a similar style. When I began working on the assets for SAR’s prototype, I wanted to revisit that look, but with the juxtaposition of deadly weapons contrasted against adorable animals that made us laugh. None of my prototype art is still in the game, but it established the direction we wanted to take the game in. We also drew from loose influences like Conker’s Bad Fur Day and Happy Tree Friends, but we didn’t want to go nearly as mature. From there we started imagining the backstory of a world where genetically modified animals fought to the death, and it was hilarious to explore how such a place might actually exist and come to be.

We pulled inspiration from all over, from Jurassic Park to Pokémon, The Hunger Games, and the film Battle Royale. When Ruben joined the project very early on, he helped expand those rough ideas into a full backstory, and turned them into a detailed lore bible. That gave the whole team a foundation to build on, so every new region and character would fit consistently into this absurd yet strangely believable world.

From: Cinovel[bsky.app]
What sorts of factors have inspired the different themes of Animal Passes? I've always been curious about the creative process behind everything.

Animal Pass themes often grow out of whatever the big content of that update is. For example, the “Sense of Scale” pass introduced lizards and the Giant Star-nosed Mole, Twinkle, while the “Dragon’s Loot Pass” synced up with the debut of Super Dragons. That is not always how it works, though. Sometimes the theme idea comes first and ends up inspiring content, or we sometimes use a pass to explore a fun aesthetic or idea that feels right for the season.

From: P&MFieryFlakes[x.com]
Just curious. Why did you decide to make a live service battle royale game for Super Animal Royale?

When we first launched SAR it was a paid game, but we always knew a battle royale would need to be free-to-play to reach enough players. For a small indie studio, that was especially true because keeping 64-player matches full would only work if the game was easy for anyone to jump into. That’s why even at launch we included the “Super Free Edition” demo, a simpler version of what eventually grew into the full free-to-play live service game.

We also understand why some players are cautious about live service games, and we share many of those hesitations ourselves. The model has had its rough spots across the industry, but when done right it can be one of the best ways to support a multiplayer game because it lowers the barrier to entry for friends to play together. Our approach has been to try to improve the model and make it as player friendly as possible, with things like Animal Passes that never expire. Our hope is that if we can find the right balance, our designs can not only sustain our team and keep the game growing, but also show that healthier approaches to live service can work.

Looking back, making SAR a live service was definitely the right call. It has let us keep learning and improving, and it has helped us foster an incredible community that has guided the game in directions we never could have imagined at launch.

From: Odyssey[x.com]
Will we have an in-game friends and chat system for all platforms so players can socialize much easier?

Yep, there will be an in-game friends system, and we’re aiming to support it across all platforms! We’re also working on cross-platform chat so players can connect more easily, but some social features may roll out gradually across updates as we work through the quirks of each platform during porting.

We’re holding off on showing how it all works until the new UI is ready to share, but it’s shaping up nicely and we’ll be talking more about it before Super Animal World launches later this year.

We have another round of incredible fanart from the community to share! Thanks to all of you who keep filling our feeds with so much creativity every month.

Art by NekoSan

Art by I Love BTS

Art by Kom JJi

Art by Squirrelhunterz

Art by Foxander

If you’re posting your fanart on social media, use the hashtag #superanimalroyale or tag us in it! You can also share fanart in our Discord server[discord.gg], where we have channels just for fan creations and art discussion.

We’re getting close to sharing more exciting news about Super Animal World, and we can’t wait. In the meantime, if there’s something specific you’d like us to cover in the next Mooseletter, let us know!

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See you on the island, Super Animals!

- Michael, Logan, & the Community team