Super Animal Royale — patch notes and updates
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| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Super Cartoon Gorilla Smashes In! | 2026-04-24 | We hope you’ve been enjoying Bright Future and had a great time with the Respawning Day event! We’ve still got a few bonus updates to round things out, starting with a new breed now available in the Research Lab: the Super Cartoon Gorilla! Super Spring Animals The Super Spring Animals have also made the jump from Twitch Drops into the Research Lab, so you can now unlock them all there: Super Sable Lop Bunny Super Fawn Super Appaloosa Horse Super Spotted Lop Bunny Featured Weapon Rotation As promised in the Bright Future patch notes, Featured Weapon Rotation is now live! Every 24 hours, the featured weapon in Battle Royale will rotate between |
| Respawning Day Week 3 is in Full Bloom | 2026-04-14 | Spring has sprung, Super Animals! The third and final week of Respawning Day is upon us, and with it comes one last batch of challenges and rewards to unlock beneath the cherry blossoms. From now until Friday, April 24th, you can complete the Week 3 challenges along with Weeks 1 and 2 if you still have any left to finish. We’ve also got fresh spring fanart to share, a few new goodies in the SAW Shop, and a big thank you to all of you for bringing the Thomas Sledison Makeship Plush to life in under 24 hours! Respawning Day Week 3 For the final week of the event, we’re returning to the fan-favorite Sakura Festival, so put on the pinkest things |
| Respawning Day Week 2 + Thomas Sledison Plush | 2026-04-07 | Bright Future brought a whole meteorite’s worth of new content to the island, and we hope you’ve been having fun exploring it so far. We’ve already been collecting lots of your feedback on the update and what you’d like to see next, and we’re looking forward to sharing more on that after the event. Today, we’re kicking off Week 2 of Respawning Day with a new batch of challenges and rewards, a new Super Animal breed to unlock, and the Thomas Sledison Makeship Plush launching this Friday, April 10th! Respawning Day Week 2 Super Animals are no strangers to getting their paws dirty, and Week 2 of Respawning Day is here with a gardening-themed bat |
| Bright Future Update: A meteor strikes, shaking up Super Animal World | 2026-03-31 | No need to keep counting down: the Bright Future Update has landed! A Banananite meteorite has crash-landed on the island, kicking off a new storyline with fresh quests, new weapons and mechanics, and a bunch of community-requested improvements. Here’s the quick rundown before we dive into the full patch notes: Highlights: A Banananite meteorite has landed in Super Animal World, bringing new NPCs, storylines, and quests Banan Altars have popped up in Animal Royale, where offerings of bananas and Giant Emus can reward you... or punish you The new X-Ray Cannon, Uzi, and dual-wieldable Dualzis arrive, along with a new featured weapon rotation sy |
| A meteor lands March 31st with the Bright Future Update | 2026-03-09 | A meteor is hurtling toward Super Animal World, and it lands Tuesday, March 31st with the Bright Future Update (v2.1)! It’s the first major update after Super Animal World (v2.0), bringing community-requested features and plenty of polish to the new systems. The Banananite meteor’s impact kicks off a new storyline with new quests, new characters, and a retro-future sci-fi theme across the season and the Bright Future Pass. We're also giving battle royale some extra love after all the cozy content in Super Animal World, with new weapons like the X-Ray Cannon, Uzis, and Dualzies, plus Banan Altars for rare loot (or curses). In the Research Lab, |
| Giddy Up | Year of the Super Horse Week 3 | 2026-02-17 | The final unlocks of the Year of the Super Horse are here! Complete Week 3’s five new challenges, and catch up on Weeks 1 and 2 before the event ends on Friday, February 27th. Week 1 (full event kickoff and patch notes including quality of life improvements): https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/494967350396716585 Week 2 + Duos Day: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/529870881777779929 Highlights Week 3 is live: Final five Lunar New Year challenges and rewards New Super Horse breed: Super Przewalski Horse Event ends Feb 27: Complete all challenges before the event's conclusion Year of the Super Horse Event Week |
| Prettiest in Pink | Year of the Super Horse Week 2 + Duos Day | 2026-02-10 | Week 2 of the Year of the Super Horse is here with a stable of new challenges and rewards, and a Duos Day mini-celebration packed with hearts, roses, and matching outfits. If you missed Week 1, that post covers the full event kickoff and patch notes (including quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes): https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/494967350396716585 Highlights Week 2 is live: New Lunar New Year challenges and rewards, plus Duos Day bonus items New Super Horse breed: Super Pink Pony New Super Peacock breed: Super Heart Peacock SAW Shop (Duos Day): New Heart Gun Bundle Carl’s Cart (Duos Day): Duos Day Suit & Duos Day Dr |
| Lunar New Year 2026: Year of the Super Horse Event | 2026-02-03 | Hay there, Super Animals: the Year of the Super Horse is here! To kick off the new year, we have three weeks of event challenges and rewards galloping your way. Alongside the holiday event, we’ve included some targeted bug fixes and quality of life improvements for Super Animal World. Our bigger v2.1 Major Spring Update is still on the way too with major improvements and new features (see our Roadmap for all the details). But first, let’s saddle up and see what’s new for the Lunar New Year! https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/637955472778854913 Highlights Year of the Super Horse event (until Feb 27): 3 weeks of challenges, cos |
| Roadmap & Super Elephants! | 2026-01-15 | 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. What’s Next for SAR 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 fishi |
| CRISPRmas Week 3 | Super Toy Horse gallops into Super Animal World | 2025-12-23 | 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. CRISPRmas Week 3 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 th |
| CRISPRmas Week 2 | Super Animal World Launch Party | 2025-12-16 | 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 |
| Super Animal World Is Here: A cozy new place to kill your friends | 2025-12-09 | 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. What is Super Animal World? Super Animal World is a reimagining of Super Animal Royale that turns the island |
| Super Animal World Opens on December 9th | 2025-11-04 | 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 lar |
| The Stakes are High | Howloween 2025 Week 3 | 2025-10-21 | 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: 5 challenge rewards to earn 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) New Super Animal Breed Super Vampire Deer (Avai |
| Playing (Un)Dead | Howloween 2025 Week 2 | 2025-10-14 | 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: 5 challenge rewards to earn 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 New Super Animal Breed Super Zombie Possum (Available in the Rese |
| Howloween 2025: Is That a Clucking Crossbow? | 2025-10-07 | 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! Howloween Event Week 1 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 Arti |
| Howloween Arrives Next Week! | 2025-10-01 | 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 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 g |
| Starter Packs Return! | The Mooseletter August 2025 | 2025-08-27 | 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 Starter Pack Reruns Over the next six weeks, past Starter Packs are |
| Let’s (Super) Catch-up | The Mooseletter July 2025 | 2025-08-01 | Hey Super Animals, we’ve been extremely busy this past month. Between steady progress on Super Animal World, showcasing the game in Kyoto, and hosting this year’s Super Summer Royale event (complete with a brand new weapon), there’s a lot to dig into, so let’s get started! In this edition of the Mooseletter: Super Summer Royale recap Super Animal World progress update Our BitSummit experience in Japan Triple Barrel Blunderbuss insights Pixile AMA, Community Roundup, and fanart showcase Super Summer Royale Last month’s Super Summer Royale debuted our first-ever limited-time gun, the Triple Barrel Blunderbuss (more on that later), along with fr |
| Beach Balls and Lemon Claws | Super Summer Royale Event Week 3 | 2025-07-15 | Week 3 of Super Summer Royale is here, bringing refreshing new challenges, fruit-themed cosmetics, and the ice cold Super Lemonade Wolf! Super Summer Royale - Week 3 You’ve had homemade lemonade, but how about a labmade lemonade wolf? 5 challenge rewards to earn Lemon Glasses | Collect Fruit (1337) 2000 XP | Find and Kick a Beach Ball on an Emu in a Match (5) Lemonade Dress | Smash Sand Castles(20) 750 Carl Coins | Dance with Beach Crabs Pineapple Umbrella | Heal HP with Fruit, Coconuts, or Mushrooms (200) New Super Animal Breed Super Lemonade Wolf (Available in the Research Lab at level 40) Thank you to Sailoro7 for suggesting the Lemonade W |