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Gentleman Rat Studios · Published by Gentleman Rat Studios · Official site ↗
Very Positive — 95% positive (1,945 reviews) · 32 achievements
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
A deep, open world life sim and town building game set in a cozy post-apocalyptic paradise. Restore your town, sail across a mysterious archipelago, rescue animal pals. Hunt for relics and farm, fish & craft everything you need. Can you help turn Critter Cove into a thriving tourist town once again?
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Adventure, Simulation, Early Access, Casual · 2024 · More £5 - £15 games
Embark on a journey of restoration and adventure in Critter Cove, an open-world life simulation where you'll sail the archipelago, farm, fish, and craft your way to turning this cozy town into a thriving tourist destination.
About this 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!
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 | AMD FX-6300
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX760+ or AMD Radeon 7950+ equivalent with a minimum 4GB of VRAM
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 20 GB available space
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
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 duplication of clothing items when using vanity slots. Fix for allowing pants or shirt in equipment slots while also having a wetsuit, dress etc. Fixed a bad CPU performance bug on the new mini-map.Read full article on Community Announcements (Critter Cove)Patch NotesOfficial
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 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 CrittersIntroducing: Prism the Unicorn, Odus the...Read full article on Community Announcements (Dr. Wayward)Patch NotesOfficial
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 stats! Save full outfits into loadout slots and swap between them right from your inventory.Critter Loadouts: Change your entire look by swapping out Critter loadouts on a single character via the character screen via mirrors.Minimap: The compass now doubles as a proper minimap 6 New Critters: Six new faces are ready to move to the Cove New outfits in the clothing store. Rigg's Outpost will now sell you the oil rig gear once you're trading with him. Character Creator on Controller: The salon and character creator now fully support controllers, including a rebuilt color picker with hex code entry. 🛠 Quality of Life Building and repairing houses can now pull materials straight from your storage chests: Hold confirmation on a required item to use everything you've stored.Harvester Robots got smarter: Digatron now picks up marble, Chop-O-Matic picks up resin, and all robots have a better chance of finding rusty air tanks.The school now shows a countdown for how long a Critter has left to retrainThe auto-run button now acts as full throttle when you're driving the boat.Knocking on a critter's door now tells you when they're staying home sick.Added a confirmation when backing out of critter creation so you don't lose your work.New accessibility option to turn off lightning flashes.The journal now opens on your tracked quest each time 🖥 UI & Controls Switch character creator categories with LB/RB on controller.You can now enter numbers on the on-screen keyboard when using a controllerFixed UI layout issues on 16:10 displaysIsland names on the map now stay visible for longer while zooming out.Fixed diagonal walking being slower than straight walking on the controller.Fixed dialogue text appearing behin...Read full article on Community Announcements (Critter Cove)Patch NotesOfficial
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 one down.Read full article on Community Announcements (Critter Cove)Patch NotesOfficial
Hot Patch 348
Added some CRC checks to make sure files are valid after steam installs.Read full article on Community Announcements (Critter Cove)
