Critter Cove

Released: Sep 10, 2024
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Last updated: 14 Sep 2026, 08:56 GMT

Updates & announcements

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06 Aug 2026Developer post
Vanity OutFit Fixes Patch 311
Added new Option to show only items in the vanity slots OR if a vanity slot is empty allow the normal equipment slot to show instead. So this allows you to always wear some pants/shirt etc outfit while being able to still show hats or whatever in your normal slots. Fix for duplic
31 Jul 2026Developer post
The Outfitters Update
Ahoy! We’re happy to announce the next update for Critter Cove. The Outfitters Update adds some long-standing player requests to make expressing yourself a lot easier, a brand new quest line, a minimap feature, new clothes, new Critters and more. You can check out the full patch
Ahoy!
We’re happy to announce the next update for Critter Cove. The Outfitters Update adds some long-standing player requests to make expressing yourself a lot easier, a brand new quest line, a minimap feature, new clothes, new Critters and more.
You can check out the full patch notes here, and as always, we’d love to see y’all on Discord.
Critter & Fashion Loadouts (AKA Transmog / Vanity Slots)
Dress to impress without losing any stat-boosting items. The new outfit loadout system will allow you to pick two sets of clothing: one for practical use, like scuba masks and flippers, and one purely for style. You can also save five different outfits and easily switch between them.
But in the world of Critter Cove, style goes beyond mere fashion. You can also now easily save and swap your entire appearance via mirrors with just one click.
And finally, we’ve added a much more complete color picker into the game to help make fine adjustments to your color selections.

Job Covers & Sickness Notifications
You can now set Critters to cover a job, so that if the main employee gets sick, the new worker will take over the next morning and stay until the original worker gets better. No more days where your doctor gets sick and there’s nobody else to help out.
We’ve also added sickness updates to the in-game notification system, which makes it easier to see who is sick and covering every day.
Great Mushroom Questline
The Great Mushroom hasn’t spoken to anyone in a VERY long time, but it seems like now is the moment for them to awaken and waste no time in setting you to work. You can pick up this new quest line from Haystack in Port Bella once you’ve completed the earlier farmer-related quests.
Minimap
You can now turn the game compass into a live minimap, which can also show you quests, Critters–provided that you’ve made bracelets for them–and robots. You can turn this on and off and tweak settings via the camera menu.
New Outfits & 6 New Critters
Introducing: Prism the Unicorn, Odus the Walrus, Tina the Kappa, Fernando the Bull, Ratthew the Rat & Selene the Luna Moth!

Alongside our new line-up, you can also now buy the oil rigging outfit from Riggs. Rain jackets have arrived in the Clothing Store just in time to easily swap over using the new outfit loadouts, and we’ve made some variations on the open jacket that is a bit less ‘chesty’ for those looking for a more modest style.
And More...
We’ve added a ton of quality of life upgrades, but here are some highlights:
You can now pull materials for buildings directly from your chests
Harvester robots can now do more for you
Many controller improvements and fixes
Lots of tweaks and fixes to the Create-A-Critter system from last update
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31 Jul 2026Developer post
The Outfitters Update Build 309
Patch Notes The Great Mushroom Questline : A new multi-part questline featuring the Great Mushroom himself. Job Covers: Critters can now be assigned as backup workers who automatically step in when a shop worker is home sick. Outfit Loadouts: Dress for style without losing your s
28 May 2026Developer post
Emergency Patch 349
Final fix for the exception bug on new game. This was caused by the new feature in Options called Auto Save Frequency. If this was set to Daily it would cause a new game to fail. Sorry for the issue and the delay in fixing this. Big shout out to Dylus on Discord for tracking this
27 May 2026Developer post
Hot Patch 348
Added some CRC checks to make sure files are valid after steam installs.
27 May 2026Developer post
HOT PATCH 347
Fix for a few users experiencing an issue on new game where it does not load into the character creation screen and throws and exception. If this has happened to you please update to this patch to fix the issue.
14 May 2026Developer post
Create Your Own Critters in the "Glow Up" Update
Ahoy! It's time to grab your scissors and prepare to create some brand new friends in our Glow Up Update , available now. Create-A-Critter The final building in the game is ready: The Salon . Once built, you can dive into the brand new Create-A-Critter system and design your very
Ahoy!
It's time to grab your scissors and prepare to create some brand new friends in our Glow Up Update, available now.
Create-A-Critter
The final building in the game is ready: The Salon. Once built, you can dive into the brand new Create-A-Critter system and design your very own islanders from scratch. Your custom Critters will arrive via the next tour boat, ready to settle in and become part of your community.
You can edit your creations later, but choose their personality carefully, because that's locked in for life! The Salon also brings some quests, and of course a new job and tourist hotspot.
You can have a max of ten custom critters, so that the game doesn't explode :)
Smoother, Snappier, & Shinier
It's not just the town that's getting a glow up, but the game itself! We've put serious work into performance for this update.
Overall this should improve FPS by about 15-20% on lower-end systems and the Steam Deck, a boost which can make a big difference later in the game when your town gets busier! This should also create faster loading times, and players on more powerful machines should notice less stuttering and drops in general.
We've also added new particles for fire, water, and various SFX, and we've added new higher-end anti-aliasing options for higher-end systems.
A Mystery at the Museum

Woolington needs your help to search for a mysterious relic! The museum is at the heart of an all-new questline that you can start by checking in with Professor Woolington. (If she’s not ready yet, keep an eye on the bulletin board, she’ll let you know when she has your first task!)
New Critters, Clothes & Parts
Seven new critters will be joining the roster, these are the winners from our latest Critter Creation Contest on Discord! Please welcome Arco the boar, Katnip the plant cat, Quanta the lizard, Cobran the green heron, Ollie the opossum, Shae the ball python & Opalite the unideer.
We've also added monkey and pony heads, and tails for monkeys, opossums and gators, as well as a bunch of new nose options.
Quality of Life Updates
A bunch of small quality of life improvements landed too:
Sickness rebalances: If you give it to a Critter directly, medicine will always heal them the next day. Sick Critters will now visit the Clinic for a chance to get better. These two changes combined make sickness a little easier to manage overall.
Customizable autosaves: Choose when the game saves, which can be helpful to reduce stuttering on some machines.
Smarter crafting: No more "inventory full" messages if/when the crafting action frees up a slot, plus you can finally make slop in bulk.
Bug Fixes
We've also squashed dozens of smaller bugs in this patch, from bread pretending to not be an ingredient to fish escaping aquariums. You can now rename save files, sell the starter hat (you monster!), and will find that Renard stays visible on the map at all times.
Happy glowing up!
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14 May 2026Developer post
Major Update Build 345
New Features Create-A-Critter & The Salon : You can now complete the final building in the game, the Salon, and create your own custom critters! Once created, they will arrive with the next tour boat. You can continue to edit your critters, but you cannot change their persona
New Features
Create-A-Critter & The Salon: You can now complete the final building in the game, the Salon, and create your own custom critters!
Once created, they will arrive with the next tour boat.
You can continue to edit your critters, but you cannot change their personalities!
You can have up to 10 custom critters, but will NOT get an additional slot if you ask them to leave
Woolington Questline: Help Woolington and the museum with some problems relating to a mysterious lost Ark
Performance Improvements: This is especially noticeable on the Steam Deck, which now gets a 15% performance increase and faster loading times. We've also added brand new visual effects for things like sparkling items, fire, water etc.

Salon Quest: Repeatable shop quest to earn doubloons and build your relationship with the salon shopkeeper.

Competition Critters: 7 new critters will be joining the roster, these are the winners from our latest Critter Creation Contest on Discord. Please welcome Arco the boar, Katnip the plant cat, Quanta the lizard, Cobran the green heron, Ollie the opossum, Shae the ball python & Opalite the unideer.

New Character Creation Options: Two new heads: monkey & pony. Three new tails: monkey, opossum & gator. New nose options (located under the facial hair slot) for humans, cat, pony, monkey, seamonster, dinosaur & robot heads.

New clothing options: Dress of Embers, a black and red variation of the Dress of Darkness & a new headwrap hat, the snake headwrap.

Quality of Life & Other Updates
Sickness Balancing Updates: Critters will now always heal when given medicine instead of having a chance to heal, and will have a chance to visit the clinic when ill. Also added a medicine vending cabinet to the clinic where sick critters can pick up their own prescriptions if you keep it stocked.
New Anti-Aliasing Options: In addition to the existing FXAA, we've implemented stronger - and more system intensive - options including MSAA and TAA.
Auto Save Options: Crafting Tweaks: If making an item would use up an inventory slot, you can now craft that item without "inventory full" messages, and you can now create multiples of slop.
Other Updates
Fixed an issue where crafted items such as bread would show as a red item in the cooking menus
You now must build the cafe before getting other blueprints, fixing a number of issues
Renard is now always visible on the map
You can sell the starting hat now, if you hate cool hats
Certain fish no longer swim out of aquariums
Tourists cooking at the grill now have the proper dialogue
Fixed Woolington incorrectly appearing outside the museum
The Donation box now properly shows up during Museum expansion
Opening treasure maps should no longer show a duplicate you
Fixed an issue with bakery quests where crates would not clear up
Changing texture quality no longer changes the quality of loading screens
Added type icons to the clothing and furniture store items
Did some work on bird spawning so they don't explode in front of the player so much
Drowning sounds no longer persist after you start drowning but put on Scuba
Player can now gain reputation with Woolington by doing quests and turning in treasures
The game will now properly save fullscreen/windowed settings
The "2 Fast 2 Tubious" achievement now only gets granted when you have all upgrades
New icon for game settings that makes more sense
Pressing LB at the end of a menu now wraps around to the start of that menu
You should no longer be locked out of sick critters homes during the day
Fixed some confusing text in the character creator.
Removed duplicate Tool Crates that some players have in their inventory
Shop payout balance pass – increased prices on several of the shops to make them more valuable
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14 Mar 2026Developer post
Hot Fix Build 320
Fixed a number of localization bugs.
11 Mar 2026Developer post
HotFix Build 319
Fix bug where no medicine was removed from player inventory. Fix bug where sometimes the npcs would move around the world in a sleeping pose. Fix localization bug on the note in the scooter quest. Fix for npcs that have been kicked out of town getting sick and posting to the boar
10 Mar 2026Developer post
Critter Cove: Brains, Bones & Badges
Ahoy Critters! Our “Brains, Bones and Badges” update is out now, our second update of the year and it’s a big one, with two more buildings added to the town, Steam achievements, a SEA SCOOTER and much more. Introducing the Clinic (Bones) and School (Brains) Hiring a medically-min
10 Mar 2026Developer post
Clinic School and More Build 317
✨ New Features **Clinic Building and Sickness:** Critters and tourists will now get sick and hurt and can go to the clinic to be healed up, plus new repeatable quests. **School Building and Education**: You can now retrain critters for different jobs using the school. **Steam Ach
17 Dec 2025Developer post
Important Bug Fix - Broken Donation Box For Room Expansion.
Fixes bug where sometimes the donation box after a save for upgrading your houses new room(s) would break and show empty or another donations boxes information.
16 Dec 2025Developer post
New Critter Cove Housing Systems, Quests, Features & More!
Expand Your House With Brand New Rooms Things feeling cramped? Got too much furniture, and not enough places to put it? You can now extend your house by adding brand new rooms, allowing you to set up different themes and styles, all in a single home. There are five room upgrades
Expand Your House With Brand New Rooms
Things feeling cramped? Got too much furniture, and not enough places to put it?
You can now extend your house by adding brand new rooms, allowing you to set up different themes and styles, all in a single home.

There are five room upgrades to grab, and you’ll get the first for free from Renard (provided that you’ve completed certain pirate-y tasks for him that is).
Barnacle’s Questline
Barnacle’s questline is now complete! You can pick up the new quests from Port Bella just 3 days after completing his quest in Boomerang Bay. Expect some deep sea fishing and some brand new – if somewhat fishy – rewards.
Bakery & Gym Repeatable Quests
The bakery and gym now offer repeatable quests once you’ve repaired them.
We’ve also fixed a bug that was causing issues with the tavern repeatable quest, so you should expect to see a lot more activity if you’ve completed those buildings.
Head Lantern
The new technological marvel that is the head lantern lets you keep things illuminated while you use your tools. No more pulling your shovel out to find yourself in complete darkness.

You can pick up the quest for the headlantern recipe from Copperbottom as long as you have the recipe for the normal lantern and have finished the Recycler quest.
More New Music, Furniture, NPCs
We’ve continued to add new music into the game! We'll let you find it as you explore, but head to museum if you want to hear a new track straight away!
We’ve also added a new candy themed furniture set, just in time for the house expansion, and six new NPCs, including the OCs of our level designer Joony (Cookie) and programmer Nuno (Aurelia).
Pokee Plushee Update
We’ve extended the time you can pre-order our wonderful Pokee plush for two more weeks!
We only need a few more in order to get everything sent off to production, and we know that hitting that number would move even Pokee to tears. Well, maybe not tears, but she’d be quietly proud of you.
Bug Fixes
We’ve also packed in more bug fixes, including:
Adding the ability use stamina to swim faster
Removing the pesky bug causing food and other items to stick to critters’ hands
Removing the camera lock when using the boat with a controller
Making feeding the crabs easier
Removing the automatic chest resort on reload
Giving Anchor a hi-res mouth, along with other character improvements
Read more in the full patch notes!
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14 Dec 2025Developer post
Ver 0.8 Build 287 - Patch Notes
✨ New Features Housing Updates: You can now add individual rooms to your house - Talk to Renard for details Headtorch : Players can now obtain a headtorch to make it easier to use tools in the dark - Talk to Copperbottom for details New Repeatable Quests: For the gym, bakery and
13 Nov 2025Developer post
Pearly and Ginny's Story
Today, we’ve added a character that’s a little different to our normal crew – a fox called Pearly. Pearly is the OC of Ginny, a close friend of one of our community members, Rach. Ginny's original art (left) and our finished NPC Rach started playing Critter Cove shortly after we
03 Nov 2025Developer post
Pokee Plushie and 30% Off Critter Cove
30% Off Critter Cove This Week Critter Cove is on sale at a 30% discount this week, starting RIGHT NOW! We’ve recently added new outfits, decorative items and more music to the game in our most recent update , and we’re working on some major quest updates to the game for December
31 Oct 2025Developer post
Patch 267
New music has the default volume increased. It was to low. Fixed new building 21. Should let you get this building now was not correctly wired up.
30 Oct 2025Developer post
New Items, Outfits and Music (And a Free Scarecrow Blueprint...)
Ahoy! It’s been a busy month for the team as we’ve updated the demo with a year of patches, gotten the game verified on the Steamdeck AND done a big behind the scenes pass on performance and stability... …but we’ve still got some cool new additions for you! New Music We’ve added
30 Oct 2025Developer post
Stability, Music, Outfits and Items. Build 266
This update adds significant stability and performance upgrades for both PC and Steam Deck, alongside new music, outfits and items. Blog post with details to come soon.

Updates & announcements

Critter & Fashion Loadouts (AKA Transmog / Vanity Slots)

Job Covers & Sickness Notifications

Great Mushroom Questline

Minimap

New Outfits & 6 New Critters

Create-A-Critter

Smoother, Snappier, & Shinier

A Mystery at the Museum

New Critters, Clothes & Parts

Quality of Life Updates

Bug Fixes

Introducing the Clinic (Bones) and School (Brains)

Steam Achievements

More Music, Clothing and Customization options

Gotta Go Fast (Underwater)

QoL Updates & Bug Fixes

What’s Next?

Expand Your House With Brand New Rooms

Barnacle’s Questline

Bakery & Gym Repeatable Quests

Head Lantern

More New Music, Furniture, NPCs

Pokee Plushee Update

Bug Fixes

30% Off Critter Cove This Week

Pokee Has Finally Gone Soft!

New Music

New Critters and a New Home

New Outfits, Rugs and Other Items

Happy Halloween!