The game is extremely generous when it comes to doling out rewards. There are paid versions of the Super Animal Royale that range from $9.99 to $39.99, each offering different combinations of items and tokens. Microtransactions and the game’s store are not exactly hidden away, offering a wealth of skins, animals, costumes, and accessories, though all of it is cosmetic and not really critical to success. Nothing is perfect (or as the game would probably say, purrrfect). The game’s whole attitude is “this is ridiculous, isn’t it?” but in contrast to so many games that wear their humor with a self-satisfied smirk, Super Animal Royale just grins happily. Although weapons are very much real-world guns, many of the game’s consumables are on the silly side: banana peels, skunk tails, and the like. Super Animal Royale has an art style that is simple but smart and puns, jokes, and knowing, fourth wall-breaking references are everywhere. It’s fun to see the creative combination of animal types, costumes, and accessories and chat with other players before diving into the action. The pre-match staging area often turns into large-scale dance parties or sessions of mutual whack a mole. What distinguishes Super Animal Royale from its more obviously rooted-in-reality kin is its style: lighthearted, blood-free, colorful, cute, and welcoming. Super Animal Royale can be played solo or in teams of up to four players. As with many battle royale games, there are places to hide, secret weapon caches, and even ridable mounts to speed around the landscape. There is one map but it is different each time, with weather, details, structures, and of course, choice weapons, armor, and consumables always in new locations. Players pick and customize an animal type, start with a basic melee weapon and fight to the finish with whatever gear they can find or salvage from players they have downed. Super Animal Royale is a solid battle royale game, where dozens of players are parachuted onto a sprawling island and fight their way to the center to claim victory. In fact, it’s fantastic, with enough depth and challenge to keep players coming back again and again, with matches that are short, easy to understand and bracketed by blessedly short downtime between rounds. Of course, if Super Animal Royale’s basic gameplay loop wasn’t engaging the whole enterprise would have collapsed long ago.

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