Pikmin Bloom adds Flower Planting Weekly Challenges plus new ways to play together

Pikmin Bloom adds Flower Planting Weekly Challenges plus new ways to play together

Pikmin Bloom was just updated with new features to enhance your daily walks.

First off, the new update includes new Flower Planting Weekly Challenges. Other types of challenges are going to get added later in future updates as well.

“This new Weekly Challenge lets you team up with friends and work together towards a shared goal of planting flowers. You can choose to participate in a flower planting challenge, a step challenge, or both at the same time,” Nintendo says.

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Invite Friends

In addition to the new Flower Planting Weekly Challenges that you complete alone, you can now add friends with a new invite feature in Pikmin Bloom. So you can stay connected with friends in the game.

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“Looking for a way to reconnect with friends, no matter where they are? Want to dial up the fun in the family chat? You might like the new invite feature for Weekly Challenges—it makes it easier for your in-game friends to join you,” Nintendo says.

How to add friends in Pikmin Bloom

Want to test out this new feature in the game? Here’s how you add friends:

  1. Click on the ‘Friends’ icon.
  2. Click on ‘Add Friend.’
  3. Share your friend code or QR code.

Pikmin Bloom is a free-to-play augmented reality mobile game on Android and iOS devices. It comes from Niantic, the makers of Pokémon Go. Like Pokémon Go, it encourages players to spend time outside.