Super Auto Pets launches new expansion with new animals Rock Paper Shotgun Support us Join our newsletter Visit our store Sign in / Create account If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Super Auto Pets launches new expansion with new animals My favourite auto-battler grows bigger and better News by Alice O'Connor Associate Editor Published on May 10, 2022 1 comment The fantastic Super Auto Pets (my favourite auto-battler) today launched a new expansion with 57 new animals and a full new menu of food. The pack's an interesting addition, playing quite different to both the base game and the first expansion. While the expansion costs $10, free-to-players can try some of its cuties with the new 'Weekly' pack mode, which offers a new selection of animals and foods from across all packs for free each week. Expansion #2 is out now, priced at $10 (£8.11). It took me a fair while to get used to this pack when it was on the test server. Compared to the base pack and first expansion, expansion #2 has more options for-and more reliance upon-interesting temporary effects and canny manipulation. It's heavy on stat boosts which only last a turn, abilities based around moving enemies, abilities which benefit from or help shopping, abilities which are buffed by other pets having a certain type of ability trigger, food with tradeoffs, food with slow gains, abilities which manipulate food, and even one food (the strawberry) which exists purely to activate and target some animals' abilities. Definitely an expansion for people who enjoying buildcrafting. I'm glad it offers a markedly new experience rather than small twists on the same. Watch on YouTube Not a good run-never mind the misplays-but I wanted to show you some strawberry violence. Today's update has brought plenty of newness for all players too. The new 'Weekly' pack option contains a selection of pets and foods from all packs, and refreshes every Monday. This mode is free for everyone, so you can check out some of the new pets and foods for yourself here. I look forward to a unique new meta developing each week then being washed away with the refresh. Should be some nice long-term novelty there. All players also get the new Custom Packs feature, which lets you create your dream lineup of food and items. You only match against other players using their own custom pack, mind. I wonder how this will shake out. I'm imagining it'll be the sweatiest buildcrafting? Which might be interesting to see. This mode also has a few exclusive new pets of its own. Also the patch added more words to the name bucket, so you're less railroaded into sexual euphemisms. Patch notes are not yet up on Steam, so do check that in-game pop-up for some balance changes to old pets. Super Auto Pets is free-to-play on Steam. The update and expansion is now live on Steam and Android, I've seen, and should be on iOS too. The developers, Team Wood Games say their next big plan is to translate the game into more languages. More News Jack King-Spooner's next handcrafted game has a teaser demo out Judero brings chat and action in the Scottish Borders Alice O'Connor 17 hours ago 1 If you were hoping for any Overwatch 2 balance changes then you'll have to wait until season two The next season begins in December CJ Wheeler 18 hours ago 3 The Dead Space remake will chuck random Necromorphs at you as you wander the Ishimura In space, no one can hear you proper bricking it CJ Wheeler 18 hours ago 8 Valve register mysterious new Neon Prime trademark in the US It doesn’t seem to be for a particularly colourful Steam Deck CJ Wheeler 20 hours ago 11 Latest Articles What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Alice O'Connor an hour ago 21 Past Wordle answers Here's an archive of previous Wordle words Ollie Toms 2 hours ago 1 Wordle answer today (Saturday 15 October) Hints and the answer to today's Wordle word Rebecca Jones 9 hours ago Overwatch 2 hero tier list Which are the best heroes in Overwatch 2? Ollie Toms 16 hours ago Supporters Only You're probably better than me at One Many Nobody You go on without… uh, you? Sin Vega 17 hours ago Supporter podcast - The Nate Files episode 13: dry bones Bad science is also FUN science! Alice Bell 18 hours ago Japanese dating show Love Wagon has surprising parallels with Yakuza and Persona My new obsession Ed Thorn 2 days ago If you're hankering after Bayonetta 3, Valkyrie Elysium might be a good substitute It's not out on PC until next month, but the console demo has been a surprise charmer Katharine Castle 1 week ago 4 We've been talking, and we think that you should wear clothes Total coincidence, but we sell some clothes Buy RPS stuff here