Pixile Studios Releases the "Year of the Super Horse" Lunar New Year Event, Fresh Off the Super Animal World Expansion
The free update is the perfect addition to ring in the New Year
Vancouver, Canada (February 3, 2026) | Today, the team at Pixile Studios is thrilled to give players (and animals) a new event to ring in the Lunar New Year in Super Animal Royale, the Year of the Super Horse event! Expect plenty of horse play as players take on festive weekly challenges, unlock event-exclusive cosmetics, and discover new Super Horse breeds in the Research Lab. The island is also dressed up in holiday decorations with exploding firework crates, red envelopes to collect, and new NPC characters visiting the island for the holiday. The event runs from February 3rd until February 27th!
Launching as a free update on all platforms, the Year of the Super Horse event preserves full cross-play and cross-save. In addition, launch day brings quality of life updates for the recently released Super Animal World expansion including quest tracking and balancing adjustments, plus bug fixes and performance improvements ahead of the Major Spring Update (v2.1).
Players can check out the recently published Roadmap that highlights even more community-requested improvements coming to the game such as UI upgrades, faster queuing, better Social Hub grouping options and big upgrades to the game's core modes like Battle Royale.
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New Cosmetics: Each week unlocks five new challenges (15 total), rewarding XP, Carl Coins and nine event-exclusive cosmetics.
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New Super Horse breeds: A new Super Horse breed joins the Research Lab each week (three total). Week 1 kicks off with the Super Red Hare, inspired by Guan Yu's legendary horse.
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New NPCs: Meet and chat with new NPCs for Lunar New Year, at Super Animal World's Welcome Center and Bamboo Resort.
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Quest Adjustments: Quest tracking and difficulty have been tuned based on player feedback, including better long-term quest handling and updates to the legendary Gold & Black Pearl hunting quests from the island's pearl-obsessed Giant Crab, Louie.
- Bug Fixes & Performance Updates: A batch of bug fixes and performance improvements have been made across the game, including memory optimization and additional improvements for console builds and lower-end hardware.
The Super Animal World expansion is out now as a free patch for Super Animal Royale and available on all platforms.
The Super Animal Royale base game is available now on PC and Mac via Steam, as well as on console via Xbox One, Xbox Series S|X, PlayStation 4|5, and Nintendo Switch.
Eager to sink your teeth into more? Hunt down the latest details on Super Animal Royale by visiting the official website, joining more than 100K players in the Super Animal Royale Discord, or following the game on Twitter (X).
About Super Animal Royale
Super Animal Royale is a free-to-play, top-down multiplayer battle royale that pits up to 64 players against one another in fast-paced, animal-fueled combat. Before each match, players choose their favorite Super Animal — from foxes and pandas to cats and other ferocious creatures — then parachute into the remains of a once-thriving safari park to fight for survival using an arsenal of weapons, explosives, and decidedly deadly hamster balls.
Super Animal Royale is a wildly fun genre mashup that plays with the subversion of cute, wholesome visuals paired with frenetic PvP battle royale brutality. As of writing it has been enjoyed by more than 13 million players worldwide, boasting a 93% positive review score from more than 40K players on Steam.
In addition to the classic solo, duo, and squad battle royale modes, Super Animal Royale offers two rotating special modes: S.A.W. vs Rebellion and The Bwoking Dead. S.A.W. vs Rebellion is a control-point mode where players select from five classes — Scout, Medic, Assault, Sniper, or Heavy — and compete in intense 24 vs. 24 battles to capture and hold three strategic points. The Bwoking Dead starts with four players infected with The Cluckles, a virus that mutates them into Zombie Super Chickens. To win they must infect all 40 players with their undead plague, before the survivors escape aboard a Giant Eagle and end the round.
About Pixile Studios
Pixile is an independent game studio, founded in Vancouver, Canada in 2011 to create online multiplayer games that are accessible enough for new players to enjoy right away, but deep enough to keep them coming back for more. The 15 member fully remote team, spread across North America, Europe, and Asia, is united by their love of games, absurd humor, and animals. Despite its focus on multiplayer games, the studio is committed to rich storytelling and intricate world building, both in-game and across other mediums, like their animated YouTube series Super Animal Royale Tonight.
Visit pixilestudios.com for more information.
