- Vanity OutFit Fixes Patch 311 - 6 August 2026
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.
- The Outfitters Update - 31 July 2026
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 pick…
- The Outfitters Update Build 309 - 31 July 2026
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…
- Emergency Patch 349 - 28 May 2026
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.
- Hot Patch 348 - 27 May 2026
Added some CRC checks to make sure files are valid after steam installs.
- HOT PATCH 347 - 27 May 2026
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.
- Create Your Own Critters in the "Glow Up" Update - 14 May 2026
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-en…
- Major Update Build 345 - 14 May 2026
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 leaveWoolington Questline: Help Woolington and the museum with some problems relating to a mysterious lost ArkPerformance 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, thes…
- Hot Fix Build 320 - 14 March 2026
Fixed a number of localization bugs.
- HotFix Build 319 - 11 March 2026
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 board.
- Critter Cove: Brains, Bones & Badges - 10 March 2026
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-minded Critter to run the Clinic will allow you to treat sickly residents and tourists alike, giving your tourism scores a healthy boost. While Critter Cove offers free healthcare for all, you’ll first need to rebuild the facility and tackle some new repeatable quests to keep the medicine cabinet stocked. If the thought of having Pokee as your doctor makes you feel even more unwell, but nobody else seems like a good fit, you can now also rebuild the school house. This lets you retrain critters in different jobs, allowing you even more control over your town. Steam AchievementsWhether you’re a master of exploration,…
- Clinic School and More Build 317 - 10 March 2026
✨ 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 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…
- Important Bug Fix - Broken Donation Box For Room Expansion. - 17 December 2025
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 Critter Cove Housing Systems, Quests, Features & More! - 16 December 2025
Expand Your House With Brand New RoomsThings 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 complete…
- Ver 0.8 Build 287 - Patch Notes - 14 December 2025
✨ New Features Housing Updates: You can now add individual rooms to your house - Talk to Renard for detailsHeadtorch: Players can now obtain a headtorch to make it easier to use tools in the dark - Talk to Copperbottom for detailsNew Repeatable Quests: For the gym, bakery and tavernNew Barnacle Quest: Barnacle’s questline is now finishedNew Museum Descriptions: Many museum items now have their own unique descriptionsMore Music: New music in the museum, tavern, furniture shop, sailing, critter cove and on the enchanted islands. Tons of new music.New Sweets Furniture Set6 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 &…
- Pearly and Ginny's Story - 13 November 2025
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 launched last year, and had been constantly sharing the experience through pictures and chats to Ginny, who had been too unwell to play the game herself. As Rach was preparing to buy the game for her last year, Ginny passed away suddenly. After a long time, Rach was able to start playing the game again, and reached out to us about potentially adding a tribute to Ginny. We felt that adding her OC, Pearly, was the best way to do that. Pearly can’t wait to chat with you about worms, and she’ll be happiest if you bring her decorations from her favorite animals, the crabs!♥️ I know many of you have stories like Rach.…
- Pokee Plushie and 30% Off Critter Cove - 3 November 2025
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, so now is a great time to get started. Pokee Has Finally Gone Soft!Have you ever had the strong desire to pick up Pokee and squish her really hard? You can now place preorders for a 22cm tall Pokee Plushie on the Ownaj Store! The plush is available for pre-order from now until Sunday 16th November. Once we get enough pre-orders, they will be sent to their new homes this coming March. Additionally, you will find a free plushie in your inventory if you play Critter Cove in this timeframe. This project has been in the works for a long time to make sure this real-life rendition of Pokee is high quality and accurate…
- Patch 267 - 31 October 2025
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.
- New Items, Outfits and Music (And a Free Scarecrow Blueprint...) - 30 October 2025
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 MusicWe’ve added nearly twenty minutes of new music to the game, mostly in areas where players spend a lot of time (underwater, and in the tropical biome, both night and day). We’d love to hear what you think on Discord or the forums, and we’re already working on more tracks. New Critters and a New Home Our twentieth house has been added, bringing the total critter population up to 20. We’ve also added spooky critters Hexis, Owlswald and Hopsferatu. New Outfits, Rugs and Other Items We’ve added more than 20 brand new rugs and some new outfits Happy Halloween! And finally, in the spirit of the spooky season (as if Hopsferatu wasn’t…
- Stability, Music, Outfits and Items. Build 266 - 30 October 2025
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.
