Pikmin Bloom details new community features

Niantic has detailed some new community features for Pikmin Bloom, including a new kind of Weekly Challenge and an invite feature. The developer has also confirmed that it’s planning real life events at select locations in the U.S.

Here’s the full rundown:

• New Flower Planting Weekly Challenges: In April, Pikmin Bloom added Weekly Challenges, where people can embark on a walking challenge together – to walk a total of 20,000 or 100,000 steps between them. With today’s release, there’s a new kind of Weekly Challenge where the goal is focused on the number of flowers you can plant together. Now you can choose between these two types of challenges, or participate in both at the same time.
• New Weekly Challenges Invite Feature: Players can now invite other players to join in on Weekly Challenges with the new invite feature. Challenges now include an “invite” option that allows players to invite specific friends to join their challenges, making it easier to gather particular friend or family groups.
• Exclusive Rewards: All players who join a Weekly Challenge and complete it before July 24, 2022 will receive special outfits for their Mii avatar as rewards such as: an Explore T-shirt when they join and complete a step-based challenge before July 17, 2022, or a Flower T-shirt when they join and complete a flower planting challenge before July 24, 2022.
• IRL Events Coming to Select Locations in the U.S.: Engaging with friends and family is at the heart of Pikmin Bloom, along with exploring the outdoors and connecting with your local community. Players can stay tuned to official Pikmin Bloom channels for more information about IRL events coming soon to select locations in the United States.
• New Social Media Hashtag: Pikmin Bloom welcomes players to share their experiences on social media by using the new hashtag #WalkOnGameOn.

A trailer highlighting the new community features and more for Pikmin Bloom can be found below. 

Pikmin Bloom can be accessed on mobile via iOS and Android. Note that the latest community features are included in version 48.0.

Source: Niantic PR