Steam app 1631470 · updated 12 Sep 2026, 20:58 UTC
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?
716 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
25 months, September 2024 to September 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.
The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.
31 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
31 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 433 hourly samples from 13 Aug, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.
12 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 283 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.
Critter Cove was released on 10 Sep, 2024.
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32 achievements in total.
50 developer announcements, Jan 2025 to Aug 2026 · times in UTC
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…
Patch notesAhoy! 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…
Dr. WaywardPatch 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…
Patch notesFinal 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…
Patch notesAdded some CRC checks to make sure files are valid after steam installs.
Patch notesFix 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.
Patch notesAhoy!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…
Dr. WaywardNew 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…
Patch notesFixed a number of localization bugs.
Patch notesFix 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…
Patch notesAhoy 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)…
Dr. Wayward✨ 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…
Patch notesFixes 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.
Patch notesExpand 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…
Dr. Wayward✨ 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…
Patch notesToday, 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…
Dr. Wayward30% 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…
Dr. WaywardNew 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.
Patch notesAhoy!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…
Dr. WaywardThis 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.
Patch notesNew Critter Cove Demo We've updated the Critter Cove Demo today with a YEAR of updates from the main game. That's a year of controller updates, quality of life improvements, and hundreds of bug fixes. We're also using the demo to trial some…
Dr. WaywardRecommended security vulnerability fix from Unity.
Patch notesIncrease Haystack repeatable reward from 2 tickets to 5 tickets. Fixed issue with Haystack not giving out his daily quest correctly. Fix Options UI to properly reset selections when leaving it Fix Options Menu Input Options order being…
Patch notesOur September update has just landed, bringing new quests, fresh decorative items, a shiny Codex menu, controller improvements, and of course plenty of bug fixes. Even better: it arrives just in time for the Steam Autumn Sale! We'll be…
Dr. Wayward✨ New Features Farmer Quests: Added new quests and repeatable quests. Interior Decoration: New doors and windows. Housing: Added another house → population cap increased from 17 → 18 critters. Crafting Codex: Crafting menu reworked into a…
Patch notesLast month we launched our biggest update yet - the Enchanted Islands Update! We’ve followed that up this month with a big bug fix update this month that squashes over fifty bugs and general annoyances reported by players. We also sneaked a…
Dr. WaywardFix for switching languages caused a loss of resolution settings.
Patch notes🎮 Platform & System Updates * Sort saves by the most recent one loaded. * Fixed crash when loading corrupted data. 🚢 Boats & Vehicles * Added a spot light to the tub boat’s light so it actually acts as a light source. * Boat icon on the map…
Patch notesFixed bug where save files have been growing over time after finishing the Sprout the farmer part of the Rum Runner Quest. This caused hourly saves and save exits to be very slow over time as the save continued to grow in size. When a save…
Patch notesEnsure character doesn't face us when delivering an item, while they're sitting or being in a ride Fix for Farmer blouse removing the pelvis when worn by itself. Fix for characters in tents that would not leave their tent if they got the…
Patch notesAhoy! We’ve launched the Enchanted Islands Update, our biggest single update of Critter Cove since we entered into Early Access last year and an expansion of the playable area of the game by nearly a third!The update features multiple new…
Dr. WaywardFixes bad animation on plunger launcher while swimming. Fixed exception error for shooting plunger launcher at fish. Fish still need to be wired up so you can capture correctly with the plunger launcher but will be done soon. Fixed rare…
Patch notesThe housing update is here! You can jump in and check that out right now, and we are now less than a month away from our major update; everything’s coming up Sammi! Plus, if you haven't picked Critter Cove up just yet, now is the perfect…
Dr. WaywardFix icons for fancy bed and fancy wardrobe.
Patch notesIssue with missing Fancy Wardrobe and Fancy Bed. IF THIS HAPPENED TO YOU OR YOU HAVE THESE TWO ITEMS load a save from BEFORE the update ie go to load and pick a save that was NOT created with the update 297 and your items will be available…
Patch notesThis update introduces a new visit and decoration system for towns folk and will grow it over time adding in special quests et. Look forward to feedback from everyone on what additional things they would like to see here now that the core…
Patch notesWe've finally got a release date for our world update... but first, other awesome news! Little Critters Festival Critter Cove is proud to be hanging out with a vastly increased crowd of Critters on Steam this week as part of the Little…
Dr. WaywardFixes an issue where we discovered two houses where not properly allowing Critters to leave in some cases causing them to stay in their houses all day. This patch will fix this issue and you should not see Critters staying at home after…
Patch notesLast update broke players home wallpaper, flooring, ie wall ceiling and floor decorations. This will now fix those issues but IF YOU SAVED after the update reset those in your house you will need to go back to a previous save (ie the save…
Patch notesThis build helps us prepare for both the visiting and decorating Critter home update and new islands update both will be coming out very soon. First the Critter Home decoration update then shortly after will be the new islands update. Will…
Patch notesImprovements to reduce hiccups, lag and stutters. Found a number of issues that were causing the CPU to block temporarily. You should now see a more consistent frame rate especially while moving around the world and lower cpu consumption.…
Patch notesPlayer Unable to Install Control Panel on Boat Upgrade Station. Fixed issue where the player has a completed control panel ready to install on the boat upgrade station (and has the quest in there journal), but the boat upgrade station does…
Patch notesCrash fixed while decorating your house and interacting with the default bed side table after picking up the candle on it. If you had issues with decoration in your house causing a crash this is the fix. Fix issue with cooking UI and…
Patch notesFixes issues that sometimes prevent Pokee talk to quest. Related to opening scene not opening. Fixes issues that sometimes caused the opening scene to not execute. Leaving the opening scene boat around. Recommend restarting your game if…
Patch notesFix bug where you could not select recipes on the left side with controller/Steamdeck. Fixed some other minor UI issues and cumbersome workflow while in the cooking UI.
Patch notesFix a rare error that caused a exception when quickly closing decoration right after placing down an object. Fix issue with Pokee not completing the meet pokee quest on older machines.
Patch notesNew Characters & Customization {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44238006/2ff1ac44d68bea8f9788381768327fc1ee966397.png Introducing our newest critter family members! Mason the Mothman, Ernie the Duck, Sage the Jackalope, Zeke the Zebra, Jeri the Giraffe…
Dr. WaywardFix bug where the toy rides might not release the Critter and cause issues with them appearing to still be on the ride as they wander around.
Patch notesFix issue where player was sometimes jumping after closing UI windows.
Patch notesHuge redesign of the character controller for jumping and movement to fix the "janky" issues that were reported. Improves control while changing direction after looking around with mouse, smoothed out running while using controller, fixed…
Patch notesWhat Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
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| Launch | Critter Cove.exe | windows |
The folders Steam Cloud syncs. The root is a token Steam uses for a location on your own machine, not a path this page can know.
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WinAppDataLocalLow | Gentleman Rat Studios/Critter Cove/GameSaves/{64BitSteamID} | * |
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