| Developer: | Team Wood Games |
| Publisher: | Team Wood Games |
| Genre: | Auto battler |
Super Auto Pets is an auto battler video game developed and published by Team Wood Games. It was released on Steam for Microsoft Windows on September 24 2021, in February, 2022 on iOS and Android[1], and for macOS in October, 2022. [2] It is also available to play in a web browser.
The player chooses "pets" with special abilities to fight against other users.[3] The game gained significant popularity after online streamers, Northernlion and Ludwig, played the game, introducing it to their audiences.[4] [5]
The game consists of multiple turns which have two phases, the preparation phase and the battle phase.
During the preparation phase, players manages their team before going into the battle phase by buying new pets, feeding them food, increasing their level, and switching the positions of the pets from left to right. Players have 10 gold at the start of each preparation phase, which are used to buy pets, food, and to refresh their shop. Players can gain gold by selling pets or by using the abilities of pets with gold-generating abilities. The players can spend as much time as they want in this phase.
The battle phase begins after the player has finished the preparation phase. In this phase, the pets battle each other automatically without player control. The pet in the right-most slot of player's team fights the pet on the left-most slot on the opponent team. When a pet faints, the pet in the right-most slot of the team takes the place of the fainted pet. This repeats until one or both of the teams has no pets left, at which point the turn results in a win, loss, or draw. If the player wins, they receive a trophy. If they lose, they lose a life point (the number of trophies remains the same). If they draw, their life points and trophies remain unchanged. On turn 3, if a player has lost a life point in the previous 2 turns regain one life point. The player wins the game when they obtain 10 trophies.
Every two turns, players advance a tier, giving them access to more pets and food, which are generally better than the previous. Players begin at tier 1 and advance until tier 6, where they will no longer advance in tiers.
Players battle against either, other players' teams, or AI-generated teams, if there are no players at that turn. All battles are performed asynchronously.
In addition to the regular "Arena" mode above, there is also a "Versus" mode. In this mode players compete against each other in asynchronous or real time 1v1s or 8 person lobbies. Every player starts out with a score of 1500 and will either lose or gain points upon loss or win. There are three separate queues, for weekly pack, custom pack and static pack. The weekly pack leaderboard is reset every week, while the others are not. When queueing "static pack" (either turtle, puppy, star or golden pack) the player may decide to play against any other static pack or instead only play against players using the same pack they are.
There is still a "with friends" mode available (formerly called Versus). In this mode, players may create or join rooms and face each other exclusively. The creator of the room can set which pack the room will use and certain rules, such as how much time each player has to complete their preparation phase or what the punishment for losing is (how many life points are lost).[6] These private rooms used to hold up to 64 people, however this has since been reduced to 16.
Within the game there are various packs available to choose from, which act as a roster of available pets to choose from during gameplay. Players may choose to fight against other players exclusively using the same pack as them or against all other players. There are 5 packs available to play at any time, and a sixth in development.
Additionally, players can create their own packs, known as Custom Packs. Custom Packs can include any combination of pets and food from packs the player has bought. Each Custom Pack must follow guidelines, such as the number of pets and food that can be added in each tier.[7]