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.

Changelog

Added new character (Turtle), alternative skin (Armadillo), new outfits (helmet, ninja gear, pirate costume), new level (Metro), and new music
Updated the Half Unlock cheat code with new content
Migrated relay servers over from AWS to DigitalOcean
Made several online fixes to improve match stability
Improved existing localization and localized all new text
Added a delay when trying to join lobbies to avoid edge case errors
Fixed ghost lobbies where players joined and became stuck in infinite loading screens
Fixed Twitch integration issue
Fixed a constant saving bug to allow players to save more reliably

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!