Critter Cove
by Gentleman Rat Studios · 10 Sep, 2024
61 downloads
About the Game
The town of Critter Cove used to attract visitors from all over the world. Now it’s mostly known for dirty streets and trash-strewn beaches. Can you help us turn things around?
Critter Cove is a life sim and town builder game with a beautiful, handcrafted open world to explore.
Spend your doubloons to upgrade buildings and explore the world to discover new blueprints and gather resources to grow your town. More upgrades will improve Critter Cove’s tourist rating.
The greater your tourist rating, the more new tourists will visit. The more new tourists, the more money in your pockets to upgrade the town!
Venture out into the mysterious tropical archipelago peppered with the ruins of a long-destroyed civilization. Dive beneath the waves to salvage the treasures of the old world. Rescue shipwrecked critters. Unearth exotic ingredients. It’s a wondrous world of mysterious ruins, shipwrecks and ancient technology waiting to be discovered.
As you explore, you’ll find resources to craft hundreds of different items, discover new construction blueprints and bring home unique plants to grow on your farm. Turn mundane salvage into something new and unique, and improve your tourism rating by offering your freshly grown food to visitors.
Use tourist money and salvaged items to restore rundown buildings and open up entirely new stores and venues for tourists and townsfolk. Craft decorations and interactive objects that will improve the town and make it uniquely yours. You can even decorate your very own home with hand-crafted (or hand-looted) furniture!
You’ll need help to restore the town, and luckily the world of Critter Cove is filled with many colorful characters. Some are easy-going and friendly… others might need some convincing! Rescue Critters across the world, assist them in building a home and help them find the perfect job in your community. Their happiness is the key to your success.
Embark on quests to find hidden treasures or ancient relics scattered throughout the world. Donate these artifacts to the Museum of Mystery to uncover the secrets of the long, long ago - and then charge tourists a small fee to the museum so they can absorb some local culture!
Create your perfect island persona with our robust customization system. Human or animal? Mammal or reptile? The head of a parrot and the tail of a monkey? It’s entirely up to you! Mix and match your physical attributes to your heart's content and discover that perfect tropical drip with hundreds of outfit combinations to craft and discover.
Discover abandoned attractions and rebuild them in your town
Explore weird and wonderful locations such as a sunken city, and a wild botanical garden
Catch some post-apocalyptic fish and discover the best and most unique fishing spots around the world
Dismantle items in the open-world to discover new crafting recipes
Watch tourists launch themselves into the ocean for entertainment
Assign townsfolk careers they’ll love (or hate) depending on their personalities
Watch Critters use gifts or wear clothes you make for them
Hunt for new residents shipwrecked after storms
Cook powerful food items that affect your stamina and exploration prowess
Run advertising campaigns to attract more tourists to your island
Wishlist us to stay up-to-date, and head over to our Discord to be the first to hear about giveaways, and the latest Critter Cove news and gossip!
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
Sorry for the issue and the delay in fixing this. Big shout out to Dylus on Discord for tracking this one down.
If this has happened to you please update to this patch to fix the issue.
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
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 board.
**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 Achievements:** We've added loads of achievements, with more to come.
**Sea Scooters and Fins**: We've added two new ways for you to get around easier underwater.
**Updated Tourist Behaviours:** In addition to responding to sickness (now we have somewhere to get healed) tourists also provide more information when leaving the town.
**More Music**: New music in the school, clinic and carnival rides.
**New Customization & Clothing:** We've added pig & boar noses to all heads under the face slot options, two new patterns for bird heads, loads of new ear options for seamonsters, fun new back slot options including pixie wings and a cool new goth dress.
**New FX for air and cold status:** It's now more obvious when you're in trouble.
**6 New Critters and 2 new homes:** Hanzel, Bogo, Nova, Julie, Xolotl, Emberneigh and two new homes to house them in.
🛠 Quality of Life
Wings and general 'back' items have been separated out on the character controller.
We've added customization mirrors to the new shops so you can enjoy the character creator with the new music in the background.
Added a prompt when you are in a position to dock the boat in town to make it much more obvious.
You can now climb most ladders in the game.
🖥 UI & Controls
You can now map quick saving and hiding the UI. These are not mapped by default.
Item tooltips no longer obscure the amount of each item you need within crafting menus
You can now see when sliders are selected using a controller
Fix the body weight slider moving the wrong away on controller
Press "B" in the graphics menu will now close the dropdown, not the whole menu
🐛 Other Fixes & Adjustments
Fixed some long standing animation issues including the player standing up in boat
Fixed a duplicate camera bug relating to treasure maps
Woolington is now included in the relationships screen
The notification icons for spending money are no longer random
You'll no longer get a fertiliser request with no way to make it
Further fixes for item sizes in the furniture store
Fixed some building textures glowing at night
Added some sound effects, and set some others to fade more naturally
Kilns and other items that couldn't be placed in the upper workshop can now be placed
Critters will now use extra seating place in the cafe area
Fixed problem related to battery charging, including two duplication bugs
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.
✨ 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 tavern
New Barnacle Quest: Barnacle’s questline is now finished
New Museum Descriptions: Many museum items now have their own unique descriptions
More Music: New music in the museum, tavern, furniture shop, sailing, critter cove and on the enchanted islands. Tons of new music.
New Sweets Furniture Set
6 New Critters: Timmy, Aurelia, Ycaroo, Cookie, Mali, Ozzy & Capri
🛠 Quality of Life
You can now ‘swim faster’ by using the sprint button in the water – this uses up your stamina like normal sprinting!
The radio will now inform you of where new critters have washed up, providing greater detail on where to find them
🖥 UI & Controls
You can now bind left CTRL, Shift and ALT as keys in controller options
Fixed a problem where players could set the same controller mapping to different tasks
🐛 Other Fixes & Adjustments
It’s now much easier to feed the crabs their crab snacks
Furniture shop items no longer appear in miniature
Fixed a common issue where the boat camera would lock using a controller
Storage chest no longer resort themselves when reloading the game
Cooking now always allows you to pull from storage containers
Fixes to collisions that were causing players and critters to get stuck in trees etc.
Critters no longer do weird rotations when seated
Fixed an issue on the main menu using the controller that would cause the d-pad to stop working
The Tour boat is now appearing and leaving at correct times
Spring horse movement no longer syncs with the camera causing potential motion sickness
Zooming into the map no longer makes the image disappear
Fixed a visual glitch when changing clothes
Fixed some character details, like Anchors mouth, showing as very lo-res
Fixed visual bug when changing clothes showed a hard cut in the UI.
Arlo was not allowing player to decorate their house.
Fix for tour boat arriving at the wrong times showing up in the middle of the night etc.
Sunglass stand allows sunglasses to be added.
Boat camera could get stuck while running and jumping onto the boat.
Many more...
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.
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.
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