Introduction

Animal Company is a free-running co-op roguelite where you, a brightly colored primate, sprint, vault, and hoverboard through procedurally re-shuffled maps to steal loot and sell it for upgrades.

The game can be described as the fusion of Gorilla Tag's arm-powered locomotion crash-landing into Lethal Company's scavenger-for-cash chaos, then add fizzy VR slapstick, rogue mines, and a haunted mansion full of angler-fish jump scares.

Animal Company lives on kinetic freedom: every push of your controller propels you like a spring-loaded slapshot. Your goal is simple, leave with treasure and your life intact, but how do you become the best at it?

Gear Up Before You Even Smell Danger

New recruits start with a wallet that barely rattles, one crisp in-game Benjamin. Spend eighty of it immediately. Grab the flashlight (20) and the tiny backpack (60) from the shop terminal, then slap the pack onto your back.

That miniature loadout does two huge things: it lets you see in the pitch-black sewers without aggro-baiting half the map with a torch stuck on your forehead, and it gives you five inventory slots, just enough to haul nuggets, soda cans, and the occasional rubber ducky. Resist the hoverboard flex until you've banked at least $2000.

And don't forget the shop's job board. Daily tasks hand out free skill tokens that unlock tech-tree goodies like bigger bags and umbrella glide tweaks. It's passive income in button form, hit it every session.

Master the Gorilla-Style Movement Loop

Animal Company's traversal looks chaotic, yet there's a rhythm beneath the meme.

Forget the windmill arm churn that fries your shoulders in five minutes. Instead, pretend you're skipping stones on water: palm slaps the ground at a forty-five-degree angle, controller arcs forward, then you glide. Alternate arms for a surfing sensation; sprinkle a frisbee-style flick when you need a burst of sideways momentum.

Want height? Plant both hands, vault, and tuck your elbows like you're diving over a subway turnstile. In low-gravity zones, the umbrella becomes your analog stick in 3-D: open it to stall, tilt it to drift, close it to plummet.

Armstrong Cave Detour

If the thought of Red-Light-Green-Light laser turrets makes your palms sweat, steer right at spawn and enter Armstrong Cave.

The local muscle-bound ogre patrols like a nightclub bouncer, but he's slow and turns like a cruise ship. Kite him down the ramp, double-back, and the cave's loot tables are yours. Shine your light sparingly; mimics, primate doppelgängers that copy your color code, pounce when you lock eyes.

Focus on soda cans (worth about forty bucks each) and small crystals. Drop them into the backpack, slap the lid shut, and retreat the way you came. A clean Armstrong loop nets roughly $160 in two minutes, enough to refill med-sprays and still crawl toward that first hoverboard.

Haunted Mansion Low-Gravity Heist

Once you're confident, sprint past the ogre, cut through the blizzard, and look for crimson arches: the Haunted Mansion. Flick off your light the moment the angler-fish emerges, its AI tracks brightness, not footsteps.

Inside, snag the glowing golden key that spawns behind random doors (its faint yellow halo leaks through walls, so keep scanning). Unlock the basement gate and gravity drops to moon-bounce mode.

Now the umbrella turns into money. Blue crystals cling to stalactites; jab them with your off-hand, let them float, then scoop them directly into the bag without grabbing, physical grabs send you pinwheeling.

Five crystals will double your mass, so shift one to each shoulder slot to spread the load. Navigate back to the portal via the picnic-table shortcut, sell your haul, and watch the till jump by four grand.

Download Animal Company Today

Grab the game on Meta Quest stores now, free-to-play.

https://www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/animal-company/7190422614401072/

Conclusion

Animal Company rewards the brave, the coordinated, and the mildly unhinged. Master all the secrets and you'll not only survive, you'll bankroll hoverboards for the whole lobby, roast the ogre in chat, become the best and maybe teach the next batch of Quest newbies how to play the game correctly.