Super Auto Pets makes Monday the best day of my gaming week

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Every Monday, Super Auto Pets shakes its big bag of animals and draws a fresh selection for its 'Weekly Pack' mode. SAP is my favourite auto-battler, and offering a whole new meta every week has me coming back long after I would've stopped playing. I do enjoy the flow across a week as builds rise and fall on an accelerated timescale before everything is wiped clean and starts over on Monday. Which makes me wonder: what's the best day of your gaming week, reader dear?

Super Auto Pets is a breezy, colourful, and slimline auto-battler, a bit like Dota Auto Chess smooshed into Monster Train with a load of cute animals. It was one of our our favourite games of 2021, and I'm delighted to still be playing in 2022. This is mostly thanks to the Weekly Pack mode.

Regular Super Auto Pets is divided into three matchmaking pools: the base pack everyone can play with; the first expansion; and the second expansion. Each has different units and some have different foods (buffs). They're fun and all but, like any multiplayer game, do grow overly familiar and stale, especially once dominant builds emerge. That's why I so adore the Weekly Pack option added free for all players in May alongside the second expansion launch.

Every Monday, the Weekly Pack chooses a new selection of animals and foods, dipping into all three packs (even the paid ones) as well as some extra Weekly exclusives. I like my first few runs as I figure out what's even in the pack (you can look in a menu, but that's surely for cheaters). It's a good surprise to proceed through a run and discover pets that you could hang a build off, or that might push a build over the top, or could completely counter you.

From there, it's hard to get a firm read when the game has