Hey Super Animals, we have some exciting news: we’ve made the decision to return to self-publishing Super Animal Royale[animalroyale.com] on all platforms! Pixile began this journey fully independent when we released the game in Early Access on Steam in 2018, and we’ve now returned to full independence.

The team has grown and learned so much over the past six years, including adding multiple community members to the team to expand our capabilities in customer support, marketing, design, and development. So while we’re still a small indie studio of 16 people (6 of which are full-time), we’re confident that bringing everything back in-house is the best path forward for the game. And we couldn’t be more excited about the next big chapter we’re about to embark on with all of you! We’re also continuing to slowly expand the team, so if you or someone you know is super talented in the VFX department, be sure to direct them to our latest job posting right here[www.workwithindies.com] (and keep an eye out for more job postings in the future).

If all goes according to plan, you shouldn’t notice much change aside from seeing Pixile’s name as Publisher in addition to Developer on store pages in the coming weeks, but if there’s any bumps in the road as we take on release management on all platforms for new updates, you can get support directly from us in SAR’s Discord server[discord.gg] or by emailing us at contact@pixilestudios.com.


Outside of managing the return to self-publishing behind the scenes, our team has also been heads-down, working on the next chapter of Super Animal Royale. We know many of you are super eager for news on what’s coming next (we hear you!). There would usually be a new season right around now, but we’ve been focused on something far bigger. In fact, it’s the biggest project we’ve taken on since building the first full version of the game in Early Access.

We’ve been hinting at this for quite a while now, including in the roadmaps we published in our Season 9 and Season 10 patch notes, and we’re still not quite ready to share the details yet (sorry!), but we promise you won’t have to wait too much longer for your first peek at it! It’s an all-hands-on-deck project for our small team, and we know it’ll be worth the wait. Rest assured that our regular update cycles, including new episodes of Super Animal Royale Tonight, will return better than ever when the next chapter of SAR launches.

Make sure you’re watching our socials (especially YouTube) for when our first big announcement trailer drops, and in the meantime we hope you’ll join us all on the island to enjoy the final months of the current game before it evolves! We have a few more final surprises up our sleeves before the big reveal too, so pay attention to all our social channels for those as well.

We also wanted to take a moment to express how proud we are of how far the game has come since it entered Early Access in December 2018. In six years, we’ve left Early Access, launched on all consoles with cross-play, reached over 11 million players, made two seasons of our web series Super Animal Royale Tonight, and packed the game with more content than we could have imagined when we began. But we’ve had an even bigger vision in the works for a long time, and we’re finally taking steps to make it a reality.

It’s hard to avoid sounding like a broken record with sentiments like this, but this game genuinely wouldn’t be possible without all of you playing it and pouring your endless passion and love into it. You’re what motivates us every day to keep expanding this crazy hamster ball, banan, and animal filled world that is so special to so many of us. So from the bottom of our hearts, thank you so much for supporting us in this journey, and we can’t wait to share what we’ve been working on next.

See you all on the island, Super Animals!

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For all our updates on what’s next, find us wherever you get your news:

• https://discord.gg/animalroyale
  
• https://twitter.com/animalroyale
  
• https://twitter.com/pixilestudios (follow us here as well for streams, merch, and other company news)
  
• https://facebook.com/animalroyale
  
• https://instagram.com/superanimalroyale (we’re on threads too!)
  
• https://reddit.com/r/animalroyale
  
• https://tiktok.com/@pixilestudios
  
• https://bsky.app/profile/animalroyale.com
  
• https://youtube.com/pixilestudios