
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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Prices
Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
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 | 1.9Kreviews | 95% | — | $1.8M |
| $16.25−35% | 14ratings | 98% | — | not modelled | |
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 81 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Relaxing, fun, cute, and I can be a fox which is pretty neato.
LOTS OF FUN KEEPS ME BUSY
Super fun game! It reminds me a little of older Animal Crossing games when it comes to the way the characters speak and how uniquely they're designed. Really nice music, interesting story/lore. It definitely gets grindy at times though, especially once you need to start making different types of wooden planks. It's probably my least favorite part ^^; The exploration and quests are pretty fun though, and I look forward to seeing what is added and improved over time. I've played on Steam Deck and PC and it's enjoyable on both~
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Every market we collect.
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 2,402 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.
Genres
Stats
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.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
This game is adorable. It is really fun to play. I know it is in EA and there are a few improvements that they need to make, like maybe a little more direction with some functions and maybe something telling you ratings of the furnishings like if one bed is better that the rest. Over all though It is great. I like the concept and it is super cute. As I play more I will update the review, but as of right now, It is great and I am really looking forward to what is to come.
I absolutely love this game. I have done most of the playtest for the game though early access and i absolutely love the game
I would highly recommend this game for a furry based open world sand box.
so much to do and see!
This game is fantastic. Purchased during early access it already offers tons of fun and content. The graphics are amazing. The entire design and Worldbuilding truly makes me wish I would be able to live an adventurous island life. I am looking forward to all the new features coming out. If multiplayer would be ever viable with live service (it doesn't have to be much, just a weekly small change of story), it could become a great alternative to Animal Crossing.
As an early access game I am very pleased. It's super fun and I would tell anyone it is wonderful.
while i DO recommend this game, there are a few features i would like to see left out or reworked, for the features i personally would like left out is the platforming, the jumping and controls are already stiff enough, why bother adding platforming? remove it entirely or fix the stiff jumping. for features i want reworked and or added upon, that would be the boat. i wanna see more customization options for the boat. instead of a floating bathtub, lemme change it into a dinghy or mini pirate ship, speaking of boats. it feels like I'm controlling the boat on a lake of ice, i turn one way only to be forced another. i can look past all this stuff, but it would be better if they were fixed soon.
Active players
Estimated daily and monthly active players (DAU/MAU) modeled from peak concurrency.
Players by region
Where this game's players are, estimated from review languages.
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