
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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Discounts
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.71/day in the week to Sep 2 → 0.71/day in the week after.
About

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!
Sums Steam only; GOG, Epic publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $24.99 | 1.7Kreviews | 95% | — | $1.8M |
| $16.25−35% | 14ratings | 98% | — | not modelled | |
Updates
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Reviews
Themes across 81 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
It's so fun! Very cozy and you can play at your own pace - no worries about passing out and losing items, or missing out on opportunities because you don't check in every single morning. There's some stuff that I hope they'll fix up before full release - navigation is a little bit wonky and some items are really hard to track down - but overall, it's keeping me happily distracted play after play.
I love this game! It is unique, has tons to do, and is still in early access. I am addicted to it. It is gonna be a hit.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.71/day in the week to Jul 30 → 1/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, French, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, German, Spanish - Spain
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Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 81 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Meow!
I played this game in early access and it was stunning already. Rebuilding the island, following a cute story on the side, and getting to know all the different critters was a lot of fun. Some parts of the game get a tiny bit grindy (getting stuff for batteries is probably the toughest challenge, which is still very easy), but never to an extend that I'd call too much. It's always within fun limits. The character creation is my personal highlight because I got to play as myself, and to be honest, that was one of the main reasons I bought this game. I'm happy I bought it, though, because I really enjoyed exploring Critter Cove and everything surrounding it, as well as crafting, collecting, and chatting with critters. My only two "grudges" are that the boat upgrade is still kinda slow, especially when you need to go back and forth between the main island and some of the more distant islands for quests. I'm also a bit sad that the game feels like it's very centred around capitalist endeavours. If you're already in a post-apocalyptic setting, you might as well try something new to create a better society. Overall, this is a game that I'd happily buy again. It is cosy, fun, heartwarming, sometimes a bit silly but in a good way, and managed to make me forget life for over 50 hours (and they have added more stuff since!). The online wiki also really helps when you don't know where to find certain resources or some of the recipes. I played this on Linux, and it ran flawlessly.
Critter Cove is exactly the kind of cozy game I've been looking for! I love how it gives you the freedom to play however you want. There are main quests and side quests, but nothing is timed so I never feel pressured. As someone who's played a lot of cozy games that constantly have you juggling multiple tasks, this is such a refreshing change. 🩵 The music, atmosphere, and environment are incredibly relaxing, and I love slowly restoring and decorating my town. Every session feels cozy and rewarding. Here's to many more cozy hours in Critter Cove! 🌊✨
Super fun and relaxing! I love how the fetch quests come with circles on the map to help your search. When I’m done with work I just want to play and not think too hard or grind. The devs are hitting a nice balance here with keeping it entertaining and not frustrating. If you want to unwind and have fun decorating etc this is a perfect choice. Very nice graphics! Runs great on steam deck oled.
Jogo lindo, mapa gigante, dá vontade de morar dentro dele, recomendo. 10/10
It's a great simulator of being a broke kid working in a vacation town and scraping for resin.
Played the demo and had to get the game. Really relaxing an fun game...and I´m not a kid!?
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