Free Steam weekend, new merch, new team!

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Hey party animals!

It’s been about 6 months since the Shellebration Update released in March, and we’ve got a bunch of fun things to share!

Steam Free Weekend + Big Sales

You can play Ultimate Chicken Horse for FREE on Steam from Sept 7-11!

Now’s the time to host a game night or invite friends who’ve been itching to give it a try! (And if they love it, we’re running some hefty discounts until Sept 14!)

Ultimate Chicken Horse fully supports crossplay, so grab your friends who have the game on any platform (PC, Switch, Xbox, PlayStation)!

We’d love to meet you in the Ultimate Chicken Horse Discord. You’ll find new gaming buddies, bug support, tips and techs to play better, competitive tournaments, engaging discussions, and UCH memes.

You can grab the game on sale here:

Now let’s get this party started!

Horse around in style with new merchandise

We launched a permanent Ultimate Chicken Horse collection on Fourthwall!

Sport your favourite barnyard pals on snazzy, comfy tees, and relish the moment when someone inevitably asks, "What, exactly, is a Chicken Horse?"

Kittencup releases Pekoe, a cozy tea-making sim with cats

Our friends at Kittencup recently released their cat-filled tea-making sim, Pekoe! You manage a teahouse and serve aesthetic beverages to your purrfect customers. Befriend the local cats, improve your teahouse, and explore the art of tea by mixing and pouring delicious blends (The stirring ASMR is so nice.)

Check out Pekoe now!

How our team has changed

Clever Endeavour has undergone a lot of changes in the last year, and we’ve yet to introduce our newest members!

I’m Tia (the one writing this, hi) - I’m the new marketing and community manager! I took over in January for Syd, our previous CM. A few years ago, I switched careers and found my passion in supporting indie developers with their marketing, PR, and community management. Then I moved across the country to join the wonderful Clever Endeavour squad! I know too much about indie games, I love horror, and I main Sheep in UCH.

Next up: Austin! He’s our programmer/designer who came aboard in January as well. He’s full-time on our new project and is diligently coding away. Austin previously worked at Ludia as a Live Ops expert. He’s also been an in-house Dundgeons & Dragons referee and Twitch streamer!

We also have Shipmate Games helping us out with all things server-y and technical. They’re a duo that go by JS and PAC (these are technically their real names), and they’re based out of Quebec City!

Of course, there’s Fabio… you know Fabio. He’s been with us for six and a half years at this point, and has been a fan favourite since the AskClevEndeav videos of the olden days. (Fabio says hi!)

Plus dear ol’ Rich, who brings the whole crew together and keeps us on track.

What’s next for Clever Endeavour Games?

We’re up to something, we promise you that! And while we’re not quite ready to reveal anything yet, we sincerely appreciate how curious and dedicated our community. We can’t wait to tell everything - when the time is right!

We’re focusing on the new project, but we haven’t forgotten about Ultimate Chicken Horse. The game continues to receive quality-of-life updates, including some serious server overhauls that should help everyone play online.

Thanks for reading! Talk again soon.

Sincerely, all of us at Clever Endeavour Games

Announcing the Shellebration Update!

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Wow, Ultimate Chicken Horse is turning seven years old and we’re celebrating with a FREE content update for you! Play as the new character Turtle in the Shellebration Update on March 7, 2023 on PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch! Let’s get this party started.

The Shellebration Update adds:

  • 1 new character: Turtle

  • 1 alternative skin: Armadillo

  • 1 new level: Metro

  • 3 new community-designed outfits: Helmet, Pirate Costume, and Ninja Gear

  • 1 new music track

  • Lots of improvements and bug fixes!

Unlock the new content for free by playing levels with a “?” symbol and collecting mystery boxes during the game.

New Character: Turtle

Meet Turtle, the newest animal on the Ultimate Chicken Horse roster, voiced by our previous community manager, Syd!

Always ready to dive head-first into the next adventure, this plucky reptile never backs down from a challenge. Turtle’s no slowpoke when it comes to winning and won’t hesitate to slide straight into first place!

Alternative Skin: Armadillo

Look out, Turtle’s alternative skin just rolled in - it’s Armadillo! Don’t be intimidated by the tough exterior - Armadillo is a huge softie with a big heart.

New Outfits

Turtle and Armadillo share a wonderful wardrobe designed by our very own Ultimate Chicken Horse community! We asked what outfits our community would want to see in the game, and transformed our favourite ideas into these fashionable ‘fits!

  • Helmet: It’s like a shell for your head!

  • Pirate Costume: Yer lookin’ as sharp as a cutlass, me hearty!

  • Ninja Gear: Only worn by true warriors of the night. (It glows in the dark.)

New Level: Metro

Don’t miss your train! Navigate the underground metro by sprinting across the roofs of train cars as they thunder by. Place building blocks and traps to fill the gaps between the station platforms, or risk falling into the deadly electrified rails! Make it to the opposite platform without being flattened to win!

The Metro level features several historic train stations straight from our studio’s home: Montreal, Canada.

Ultimate Chicken Horse’s 7th Anniversary

Come shellebrate this special time of year with us and Turtle! We’d love to see and feature your anniversary-themed custom levels and fanart for our Shellebration Update. Here are some inspirational ideas: birthday cakes, presents, parties, the UCH animals, and other celebration-y things!

Please share your creations in the Ultimate Chicken Horse Discord or via the contact@clevendeav.com email.

Behind-The-Scenes Stuff

Our second project has been keeping us busy, but we haven’t forgotten about our dear Ultimate Chicken Horse community. It’s been over a year since our last update (Hippo) so we wanted to make something extra special for our 7th anniversary. We hope you enjoy!

Our team has grown in the meantime - we now have tech wizard/genius JS on the case. He’s already saved us from a lot of server trouble and is actively working on making the servers even better. We also brought on Tia as our new marketing and community manager just in time for Turtle’s update!

Thank you!

Thank you so much for playing Ultimate Chicken Horse and supporting us over the years. Happy 7th anniversary!

- Your turtley awesome friends at Clever Endeavour

New Server, Who Dis?

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Howdy stranger!

It’s me, Syd the Community Manager, writing my second blog post! If you want to know more about me, peep the previous blog post for an introduction.

Now, I don’t mean to alarm you, but it’s quite literally my favourite month of the year. Why? Because it’s Halloween and I love spooky things, pumpkins (both in lattes and on porches), costumes and of course, candy! However, I will say, the energy over at Clever Endeavour studio isn’t very haunted, it’s quite the opposite. Here's a summary of some not-scary things I’ll be catching you up on:

  • Goodbye Gamesparks, hello Xbox!

  • Did someone say Steamdeck verified!?

  • Trivia Night, babyyyy!

  • Mentorships + Charities we’ve been donating to 

  • Vibes were had with Vibe Avenue 

  • Things we’re looking forward to…

Gute Nacht, Gamesparks!

For those who still don’t know, Gamesparks (our old server) is kaput, so we’ve had to move over to a new one, Braincloud. You may be asking a few questions about this like:

What the heck is a server?

In simple terms, It’s what allows you to play UCH with folks who have different devices than you and live in different locations than yourself.

Is this an update?

Sadly, it is not. It is a patch, which like the name suggests, is fixing holes that may exist in our beautiful game.

So, what does changing the server actually mean then?

It means a lot of things, most quite good! It means the game’s online element isn’t stopping, which means the game has been future-proofed as much as possible. It also means…XBOX CROSSPLAY which I know has been something that’s been asked for for a very long time from our players. Our new server allows you to do this! Wooooooo! Lastly, we added a few small things for our community (updated credits, a “tournament” preset, and a bunch of other tiny little bug fixes that we could fit in).

Thanks, Syd.

No problem.

Full Steam Ahead!

This one is a little less complicated: Valve has given us the good ‘ol Verified/green check mark for Steamdeck! Have fun playing our game on Steamdeck (which you may have already been doing), but uh…VERIFIED this time.

Winner Winner Ultimate Chicken Dinner

One of my favourite things about being a Community Manager is forcing my love of trivia upon my community! Recently, our Discord players embarked on the noble quest of Ultimate Chicken Trivia; which was essentially 25 questions about UCH and Clever Endeavour, ranging in difficulty. The top 3 scores were awarded fancy Discord roles, too. Funny enough, despite me worrying it may be too easy, NO ONE got a perfect score, not even our co-founder Rich. Here are some of the questions (and answers, since I’m feeling nice):

The Code Least Travelled

During the summer, our co-founder Rich participated as a mentor in an accelerator program for game developers run by Code Coven. They're an organization that creates and runs programs for developers coming from underrepresented groups in the industry. Rich acted as a team mentor for Team Gramps, a diverse group spread across the globe, who came together to make a mobile game demo called A Week at Belisamas Lake. The game explores the connection between a grandmother and grandchild who work on fishing objects out of a lake in a post-climate change (in the positive sense, i.e. we didn't destroy the planet) society.

Rich’s mentoring included checking in on development as well as being a sounding board for ideas and problems. Overall, Rich had an amazing experience meeting these talented developers, "it's always so inspiring to see what people can do in such a short period—these people didn't know each other and had never worked together before, and managed to make a super compelling demo while working together for only 8 weeks. Crazy!" You can check out the Code Coven website if you're interested in applying for one of their programs.

Charitable Donations


In the past few months we’ve donated to two local causes that are dear to our company’s heart; The Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal, which is intended to be a healing space for Indigenous women to rebuild their lives, as well as Women Aware, which provides free services to those who have experienced conjugal violence. Please check out the attached links to look further into these incredible causes.

Just Straight Vibin’

Recently, our team had the pleasure of catching up with the musical geniuses behind the Ultimate Chicken Horse Soundtrack: Vibe Avenue. Their (relatively) new studio blew us away, and look, they even gave us a chance to play their cool instruments. Thanks for having us, VA!

Things We’re Excited About…

Aside from Halloween itself, we’re also super excited about the upcoming Halloween Level Feature event that we’re hosting. We’re currently asking folks to submit their spooky creations! The creativity and challenges that come out of our level events are one of the things our team looks most forward to seeing. So, please, make our October and check out this Steam post for more details on how to submit!

Lastly, we had the pleasure of catching up with our friends over at Weird Ghosts! Weird Ghosts helps support game studios of underrepresented makers through grants, “catalytic investments”, and community. Their day-to-day, as a small team (just two people! That’s one less than we started with when making our game), involves working with the co-op Gamma Space to provide mentorship in areas like studio development, storytelling, documentation, and project management. So far, they’ve assisted 11 studios since 2020!

When I poked co-founder Eileen about what they were most excited about regarding their work so far, she mentioned how she’s currently very proud of this blog, which focuses on funding barriers in Canada. The blog in question gives you a strong sense of what Weird Ghosts stands for–not only does it strip apart Canada’s current funding issues, but it also shows how WG actively challenges these issues when seeking studios to support. “We’re really interested in making our resources accessible”, Eileen shared with me, before noting that the next step for the company will be sharing its values and pitching information. We can’t wait to see what comes next from Weird Ghosts and the studios they’re supporting.

And with that, may your spooky season be ghastly!

- The Clever Endeavour Team