The in-game voice chat works as you’d expect and we had a good time running around and trying to outwit other teams.

Eventually, we were able to get into each other’s game parties and into shared matches. It was hit or miss if our joining one another was be successful. Instead, we had to go through Xbox’s party and game invitations from a systems-level and that was a pain. Though I spent most of my time on PC, when testing their squad system on Xbox I was unable to invite my friends through the application itself. I have to note that I did run into some technical issues on console. It made me feel like I was joining a new inside joke and a part of something bigger.

I loved going through and seeing what their community came up with. One aspect of their community building that I thought was particularly brilliant was putting fan art into an in-game museum. Most franchises don’t tell you why you want to kill everyone else, but Super Animal Royale does a great job of building a fun and interesting world to explore. Furthermore, it’s rare to find so much lore in a purely multiplayer game. I genuinely was chuckling at all the animal puns and dressing up my bear in hats and glasses before our next killing session. This deficiency is harder to put your finger on than you might think because the game is just so freaking charming! This game is hilarious and absurd in the best way. To its credit, vehicles like gerbil balls and tools like a gas filtering-snorkel help shake up the formula, but not enough to make me approach an enemy encounter differently. I understand they are given different damage points and accuracy, but I didn’t feel they were unique enough to motivate me to pick up a different gun or to master using one over the other. However, from a pistol to a sniper rifle, I found that the time to kill, range, and tactics I used were about the same no matter which equipment I held. The fun in playing a Battle Royale game is having diverse tools to then attack and defend through unscripted encounters to hopefully emerge victorious. The former gives way to generating the latter. Sadly, this is about where tactics end, and skirmish variety begins to get repetitive.īattle Royale’s thrive on two things: balanced weapon diversity and spontaneous skirmishes. The system works well as I was able to ambush several opponents by hiding in what they perceived to be an empty room. This is a clever way to solve the issue of being too omnipotent as you’re an eye-in-the-sky camera perspective. I particularly liked their Mystery Playlist that featured a unique wrinkle each match like one-shot-kills or faster bullet velocity.įrom the second you parachute down you’ll soon find that only opponents that would be visible by your avatar show up on the screen. Matchmaking time is fast although judging by some of the player’s names I suspect they may be filling servers with some bots. The game has all the playlists you’d expect with solos, duos, and squads. 64 players parachute down onto a large map and attempt to be the last anthropomorphic animal standing. The game presents as a top-down, 2D shooter that anyone could take aim in. The cute and fuzzy free-to-play game want’s to be as approachable as possible. This new entry is launching on all major consoles as well as Mac, PC, and Stadia. Their only previous entry is a tower defense iPad game. Published by Modus Games and developed by Pixile Studios, Super Animal Royale is the studio’s first foray onto consoles. While this small but mighty game doesn’t get everything right, it succeeds in providing a welcome change of pace in a genre that’s growing too crowded and stale. So hang up that combat helmet, take a break from jumping out of the Battle Bus, and maybe let someone else be the Jumpmaster for a while. Whether you emerge victorious in this fight-to-the-death or fall prey to an opponent, this charming shooter is promising fun for all in this unique presentation of a Battle Royale. Maybe you didn’t know you had it in you, but in this 2D Battle Royale, you and 63 other fuzzy killers will drop onto an island where it’s every-animal-for-themselves. Super Animal Royal wants to fill that violent stuffed animal-shaped hole in your heart.

Super animal royale gameplay