Super Animal Royale News

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We couldn’t be more excited to finally reveal what we’ve quietly been working so hard on behind the scenes! Super Animal World is a (mostly) relaxing free expansion for Super Animal Royale, coming later this summer (or to be honest, whenever it’s ready… it’s a big one). This is the huge new project we’ve been hinting at and planning for years and is the reason we’ve been taking a bit longer than usual with this latest development cycle, as we prototype and test all the new systems.

Since the beginning, we’ve noticed how much of what makes Super Animal Royale special happens between matches. The welcoming social atmosphere that is somehow conjured in the two minute windows between Giant Eagle departures has continually astounded us, and we’ve often wondered: what if we created more space for that? The Super Animal World expansion is all about providing new ways for players to connect, hang out, and relax together amid the ruins of our beloved abandoned safari park.

As you can probably tell from the teaser, the expansion will add fishing, bug catching, hamster ball races and more activities to enjoy with friends on the rare occasion you’re not trying to kill them. This is the largest project we’ve undertaken for Super Animal Royale since we first built the original game itself, as we alluded to last month when we announced our return to self-publishing. It’s a top to bottom rethink of the game’s menus, UI, mechanics, tutorials, and social elements, but we’ll have more details to share in the coming months as we get farther along in its development.

To make sure you don’t miss any of the new announcements about Super Animal World, be sure to join us in our Discord, subscribe on YouTube and follow us on your social media platform of choice:



On behalf of the entire Pixile team, thank you so much for all of your support in making it possible for us to keep building and expanding our dream game for so many years. We’re so proud of how far the game has come, and can’t wait to establish this brand new foundation for the game to build on with all of you for years to come.

We have more surprises planned between now and the arrival of the Super Animal World expansion, so stay tuned, and in the meantime we hope you’ll all join us in sending the first chapter of the game off in style. See you on the island, Super Animals!

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As you might have seen last week, we have a massive new project on the way for Super Animal Royale that we’ll be revealing soon, but we didn’t want to leave you all without some additional fun surprises in the meantime! If you haven’t already read it, you can check out that post below about our return to self-publishing, but without further ado, let's introduce the newest additions to the Research Lab.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/4212631128516705466





Super Rhinos are here, and as you might have heard from a certain Super Naturalist in the video above, they’re quite the fearsome bunch.

The Super Rhino and its four additional breeds are available now in the Research Lab, unlocked at level 70:

• Super Rhino
  
• Super Blue Rhino
  
• Super Dark Rhino
  
• Super Fuchsia Rhino
  
• Super Wooly Rhino
  

As part of our return to self-publishing Super Animal Royale, Pixile is re-launching the Super Animal Royale newsletter!

We know how annoying and overly-frequent some newsletters can be, so when we do send out an email we promise only to bother you with things that won’t bother you, like (very occasional) news updates and community highlights.

You’ll also get unique redeemable codes for items not available anywhere else, like the super-fashionable Blue Hoodie, which you can get now just by signing up!

Sign up on the AnimalRoyale.com homepage:



If you're already subscribed, there's no need to do anything! You'll keep getting all the Super News in your inbox.

Thank you so much to all of you who had so many kind words of love and support for our big announcement last week; we can’t wait to share more with you soon and really appreciate the patience.

We’ve got more surprise drops like today’s in the weeks to come before the big reveal of the new project too, so keep an eye on social media or sign up for the newsletter so you don’t miss any of it!

You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, Bluesky and Discord. See you on the island, Super Animals!

Hey Super Animals, we have some exciting news: we’ve made the decision to return to self-publishing Super Animal Royale 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 (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 or by emailing us at [email protected].




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:

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

Happy Respawning Day, Super Animals! This week, the island’s celebrating the miracle of cloning with the Respawning Finale. We’ve got a festive final round of challenges and rewards for you (alongside the first week's challenges which are still available until the end of the event), so let’s hop right into it!

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[h3]5 challenge rewards to earn[/h3]

• Choir Robes | Collect Super Eggs (1337)
• 2000 XP | Smash Fabergé Giant Emu Eggs (15)
• Vegetation Sparrow Launcher | Get Sparrow Launcher Kills (3)
• 750 Carl Coins | Dance at the Beakeasy Stage
• Daisy Crown | Heal Teammates or Giant Emus with Darts (250)

[h3]New Super Animal breed[/h3]

• Super Dandelion
  

As a reminder, now that all three weeks’ worth of event challenges have been unlocked, you can complete them at any time until the event ends on Friday, April 5th. As always, all three new Super Animal breeds are permanent additions to the Research Lab.





Plushies have started arriving at their homes! In November of last year, we partnered for the second time with our friends at Makeship to bring you a campaign for the Super Skullcat Plush and a re-run of the Super Fox Plush. Even Chicken and Waffle (seen above) are hyped about them arriving, as you can clearly tell.

If you haven’t received your code for your in-game emote, make sure to check all your email folders (including spam) for an email from Makeship sent to the same email address you provided at checkout. If you still don’t see anything there, you can reach out to Makeship support. Make sure to provide them with your email and order number!

Thanks again for helping us reach the campaign goal as quickly as you did! We’re thrilled to be able to partner with companies like Makeship to bring you awesome stuff like this. If you’d like to be notified when new SAR merchandise drops, you can sign up for our email list on our merch site: merch.animalroyale.com



Super talented artists from the community have been creating amazing fanart featuring the new Super Sakura Cat this past week, and we’re tickled pink to share their artwork with you! Make sure to toss them a follow if you love their work as much as we do.



A Super Sakura Cat enjoying a bit of sunshine and dango, by yixuanZhao13




SquirrelRaw’s rendition of the Super Sakura Cat, looking good in the Lucky Collar




A gorgeously-colored piece showing off Cheonsunny_’s amazing sense of style




crvmblo’s pastel and watercolor style compliments the Super Sakura Cat super well




A precious Super Sakura Cat drawn by Khawaiifoxy, looking super happy to be here


There’s always so much more beautiful artwork than we can share, but thank you so much to these awesome artists for letting us share their artwork with the community. :)

[h2]Catch up on Week 1 & 2 of Respawning Day[/h2]

For the all the details on the Respawning Day event including all the Week 1 and 2 challenges (which are still available to complete until the end of the event), check out our original post right here:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/4107917367734110746

And our Week 2 post right here:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/5794516150122869820

Grab your egg-hunting squad on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, Bluesky and Discord! We’ll see you on the island, Super Animals.

It’s the Sakura Festival! Week 2 of the Respawning Day event has brought a new Super Animal and set of new event challenges with cherry blossom themed rewards to earn.

[h3]5 Challenge rewards to earn[/h3]

• Taiko Outfit | Collect Super Eggs (1200)
• 1500 XP | Chop Grass with a Giant Emu (150)
• Sakura Photo Booth Scene | Eat Placed Bananas with the Banana Forker (12)
• 750 Carl Coins | Drink Health Juice with Cupgrade (200)
• Taiko Headband | Break Enemy Armor (50)

[h3]New Super Animal Breed[/h3]

• Super Sakura Cat
  

To celebrate the return of the much-beloved Sakura Set, we wrote this haiku:

The Sakura Set
Is back with lovely items
For you to redeem

..Maybe we should stick to writing animal puns.

From now until the event ends on Friday, April 5th, you can use code SAKURA to grab these items:

• Sakura Kimono
  
• Sakura Fan
  
• Sakura Umbrella
  

Twitch recently shut down their services in Korea, so content creators in the region have had to move to new platforms and lose years of progress on their channels. To support them and their audiences in moving to new platforms, we wanted to highlight some of our amazing Super Animal Royale creators who have been a part of our community over the years and have been affected by this!

It’d mean a lot if you could check out their content and consider subscribing to support them on their new platforms after all they’ve done for the game. 💜

[h3]쟈니킴 (Johnneykim)[/h3]
Johnney has been a Content Creator for the game since 2021! He consistently streams the game three times a week and enjoys french fries. When he isn’t playing Super Animal Royale, he’s enjoying some rounds of Deep Rock Galactic (rock and stone).

[h3]별별 (byul2e)[/h3]
별별 has also been with our program since 2021! She has an adorable Vtuber model using the Super Vanilla Squirrel. Her favorite drink is a vanilla latte and she plays a lot of Lost Ark.

[h3]이치고밀크 (Kr_ichigomilk)[/h3]
Ichigomilk has been a Content Creator for the game since 2022. She’s a Strawberry Cake Fairy Vtuber and enjoys playing games and making art! Her favorite food is (unsurprisingly) cake and her other favorite game as of late (aside from SAR of course) is Palworld.

[h3]Eno light[/h3]
Eno light has been actively creating Super Animal Royale content for over a year now and streams Super Animal Royale regularly.

[h3]플류네 (Peulryune)[/h3]
Peulryune has held multiple events for the Super Animal Royale community over the past couple years and has even streamed them! He loves meat and enjoys playing Minecraft.





The Land, Sky, and Sea Super Fanart Contest is still on, and submissions close this week!

Submit your art by Sunday, March 24th for a chance at the Golden Paintbrush and a shot at a frame for your art in SMoMA.

Check out the contest rules and submit your piece here!

[h2]Read the full Respawning Day patch notes[/h2]

For the all the details on the Respawning Day event including Super Octopuses and Week 1’s challenges (which are still available to complete until the end of the event), check out our original post right here:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/4107917367734110746

We hope you’re enjoying the beautiful colors and sights of springtime as much as us, Super Animals! You can keep up with us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, Bluesky and Discord so you don’t miss anything headed this way for Week 3 of the event. See you then!