Can a combat game be … cozy? It may seem like a contradiction, but after spending over two years layering a cozy game on top of our existing battle royale game, Super Animal Royale, we think we have an answer. But why did we end up gambling on this approach in the first place?

Community-led Coziness

When the first version of Super Animal Royale made its debut seven years ago, many players were drawn in more by the cute animals than the machine guns. For many, it was their first battle royale. This wholesome community turned our short, pre-match lobbies into surprisingly friendly social spaces. In the two minutes before each match, players chatted, danced, and invented their own rituals, including a banana-worshipping cult that’s now a canonical part of our lore.

The creativity and organic community building we saw in these tiny intervals between fights to the death made us wonder what would happen if we gave them a fully persistent social space without limits.

A Whole New World

The result is Super Animal World, an MMO-style Social Hub layered on top of the existing game. Instead of returning to menus and two-minute waiting rooms between matches, hitting play now brings you straight to the island in a 64-player space with fishing, bug catching, hamsterball races, shops, and story quests.

You can explore the Social Hub for as long as you like, chat with characters, accept quests, and then matchmake 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. We call this new loop the Circle of Super Life.

Find Your Own Pace

Rounds of battle royale in Super Animal Royale are quick, with a winning match often wrapping up in under seven minutes, so the game has always lent itself to that “just one more round” loop. Super Animal World keeps it easy to queue right back into battle, but it also makes the time between matches more meaningful.

You can relax with friends, add to your fish collection, explore new corners of the island, or push a questline forward before your next burst of adrenaline. And for players more interested in socializing and collecting than the competition itself, the Social Hub can be the main attraction. The new structure is both more immersive and more flexible, and we are excited to see the different ways people choose to play now that it’s finally in their hands.

Lore to the Fore

From the beginning, Super Animal Royale has had richer storytelling than you might expect from a multiplayer title, with every corner of the island intentionally crafted to hint at the contents of the secret lore bible we’ve maintained since 2018. Until now, all that lore has been confined to environmental details and external projects like our animated YouTube series, Super Animal Royale Tonight. Super Animal World’s new quest system brings all that storytelling front and center, with over 200 characters to meet, over 350 quests to complete, and over 140,000 words of dialogue to keep the lore hounds in our community busy.

These quests aren’t all talk, though: they’re also the best way to learn to play Super Animal Royale. From the early days, we’ve watched cozy gamers trying their first battle royale parachute onto the island without much instruction, only to be overwhelmed by experienced players. For new players, the quests offer a less punishing way to engage with our combat modes, complete with natural breaks for socializing and exploration.

Visit Super Animal World Today

Super Animal World is a big bet for a small indie team like ours, but it gives us a whole new foundation to build on for years to come. The expansion is available now on Xbox as a free update to Super Animal Royale. Xbox Game Pass members can also claim new Game Pass benefits to celebrate the release.

Layering a cozy game into a battle royale may sound like a mismatch, but we’ve found that these contrasting elements combine into a richer, more satisfying game. We can’t wait to see you give the game a try and step onto Super Animal World, the coziest place to kill your friends.

Super Animal Royale

Pixile Studios

☆☆☆☆☆
454

★★★★★

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It’s a fight for furvival! Super Animal Royale is a 64-player, frenetic, top-down 2D battle royale where murderous animals fight tooth, claw, and machine gun across an abandoned safari park. Collect and customize your favorite critters and weapons, then put them to work in solo matches or team up as a squad of up to four players!

With the free Super Animal World expansion, the island has become a living Social Hub where you can relax between matches, meet NPCs, take on story quests, and enjoy cozy activities like fishing, bug catching, and hamsterball racing before dropping back into your next fight to the death. Never return to the main menu, with everything you need available in-world.

Key Features
– Survival of the Fittest: Scavenge a variety of powerful weapons, armor and items to become the apex predator in intense 64-player online matches.
– The Superest World: Explore a massive, beautifully illustrated 2D island and discover its hidden lore, by chatting with its inhabitants and scouring its rich environments for clues.
– Different Stripes for Different Fights: Collect hundreds of animal breeds and customize them with thousands of cosmetic items, weapons, outfits, and even umbrellas!
– Evolving Events & Updates: Enjoy an endless stampede of new content, including seasonal outfits, animals, and weapons to collect.
– The Fast and the Furriest: Flatten your foes while rolling dirty in a Hamster Ball, or mount a Giant Emu and peck your way to the promised land.
– Battle Beyond Royale: infect or be infected by The Cluckles in The Bwoking Dead, or join SAW Security Forces and SASR rebels to capture and control flags in SAW vs Rebellion, a control point mode.
– Cozy Life Between the Chaos: relax and explore Super Animal World with friends between rounds, with seamless matchmaking between the Social Hub and competitive modes, then respawn back to continue the Circle of Super Life.